Subject:
|
Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.general
|
Date:
|
Mon, 28 Apr 2003 01:36:42 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
979 times
|
| |
![Post a public reply to this message](/news/icon-reply.gif) | |
> The 1 x 2 x 1 panels were always "ledges" to me.
"Ledges?" Interesting. I've never actually thought of them that way.
Hmm...that gives me some new ideas. I've always called those thinwalls, and
for the clear ones, trans-thinwalls.
I also call 1x1 rounds "dots," though I tend to try to stick with official
names for the most part.
> I'm curious at some of the names for this part:
> http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/x179
> I'm not particularly fond of this name, and while modeling it (currently an
> unofficial part in the Parts Tracker) I had interesting conversations with a
> reviewer on what the bottom details should be called. I called them "tabs:"
> he called them "flares." I ended up putting both as keywords.
What the hell is that thing? Actually, it has a dot cousin too, found it in
a soccer set I got today. Weird piece though. I'd call it a "1x1 with tabs."
-Stefan-
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
|
| (...) Maybe you called them as follows: My brother and I, in our early years, called plates "flats," tiles "smooth flats," (or sometimes just "smooth" as in "smooth 1 x 2") and slope bricks "tiles" (the last because of Lego S&H calling slope bricks (...) (21 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
|
17 Messages in This Thread: ![Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Allan Bedford (25-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/246.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Tim Courtney (25-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Allan Bedford (26-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Maggie Cambron (26-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Rick Clark (28-Apr-03 to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)](/news/x.gif)
![](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/268.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Larry Pieniazek (26-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Allan Bedford (26-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif)
![](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/268.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Jeremiah VanderMark (26-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Adrian Egli (26-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -John Riley (26-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/246.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Jennifer L. Boger (26-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif)
![](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/28.gif) ![](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/68.gif) ![You are here](/news/here.gif)
![](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/268.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Ronald Vallenduuk (26-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Tobbe Arnesson (28-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif)
![](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/268.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Mark D. McKean (26-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -James Stacey (28-Apr-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif)
![](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/68.gif) ![Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts -Steve Bliss (9-May-03 to lugnet.general)](/news/x.gif)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|