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Re: Most redundant Lego part
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 1 Nov 2004 21:38:28 GMT
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Purple Dave wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Mike Rayhawk wrote:
> > It was when they juniorized the palm trees. In my mind, that's hard
> > to top.
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> Yeah, that seemed really odd to me as well. Thinking on it from the
> other direction, though, I've noticed that those little palm trunk
> segments can be fairly tough to link together compared to basic
> bricks and such. Perhaps they changed the trunk over because kids
> were injuring themselves when assembling their palm trees. The palm
> leaves are probably a safety concern as well, as a tipped-over palm
> tree has two pokey bits sticking up 4-5 inches in the air. The thing
> that really sucks about this is that now all palm trees are always
> the same height, and individual palm fronds are less common (though
> they'll probably still use them in situations where they need to be
> attached to studded surfaces).
You know, I'm actually starting to like palm tree junior. They are a lot
quicker to set up and tear down and much harder to damage. Great for the
Pirate Game which I am constantly packing into two bags of holding
masquerading as suit cases...
Frank
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| You won't believe what a piece of junk the new Castle Wall 3 x 8 x 6 from the Knights Kingdom sets is. The middle section has the shape of the Castle Wall 3 x 4 x 6, but then on both sides there are lower, straight sections of 2 studs wide each (...) (20 years ago, 2-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Yeah, that seemed really odd to me as well. Thinking on it from the other direction, though, I've noticed that those little palm trunk segments can be fairly tough to link together compared to basic bricks and such. Perhaps they changed the (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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