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Re: Why are slope bricks textured?
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lugnet.general, lugnet.parts
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Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:16:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Samarth Moray wrote:
> Its one of the most trivial things, but its always bothered me. Why have that
> texture on the slope end? What purpose does it serve? From the small selection
> of un-textured slopes we have, one can only infer that these would be less
> trouble to make... amongst a lot of other advantages. So why? I'm hoping our
> freindly neighbourhood LEGO historian Gary Istok can answer.....
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> Legoswami
OK, I would love to give some special reason, but I know of none. Ever since
the sloped bricks first came out in red (1958) and blue (1960), they have had
the textured finish. The simplest explanation I can think of is because most
roofs are not smooth, but either ridged (roof tiles) or staggered (roofing paper
or roofing slate). Perhaps when the sloped bricks were being designed by TLG in
1958, they tried using smooth sloped bricks. And maybe they didn't look all
that realistic that way. Can't give any insight beyond that, except that the
coarseness of the sloped surface changed over the years. In the 70's the
texture was more pronounced than earlier or later sloped bricks.
Gary Istok
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Why are slope bricks textured?
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| (...) Definitely so! The earlier slopes had a texture that resembled overlapping circles, while the later texture is more evenly distributed teeny-weeny bumps. I can always tell if it's an old slope piece because of the funky circle pattern. Dave (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.parts)
| | | Re: Why are slope bricks textured?
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| Also, keep in mind that the slopes that came with the McDonald's Happy Meal sets a few years back were NOT textured. They had printed images on the sloped part, but if I remember correctly, that slope was smooth. eric harshbarger (...) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.parts)
| | | Re: Why are slope bricks textured?
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| Something I have noted with recent roof bricks is that the texture on certain elements has become less and less. The 2x2 external and internal corner bricks I have had in recent sets and via pick a brick have been almost completely smooth. Pushing (...) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.parts)
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| | Why are slope bricks textured?
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| Its one of the most trivial things, but its always bothered me. Why have that texture on the slope end? What purpose does it serve? From the small selection of un-textured slopes we have, one can only infer that these would be less trouble to (...) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.parts)
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