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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 13:59:04 GMT
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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
Gary Istok wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Samarth Moray wrote:
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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 make... amongst a lot of other advantages. So why? I'm hoping our
> > freindly neighbourhood LEGO historian Gary Istok can answer.....
> >
> > Legoswami
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> 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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