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| (...) If we counted an "element" as a single piece in a single color, then the brick-only tubs alone would contain 66 different elements: 1x1, 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 1x6, 1x8, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4, 2x6, and 2x8 bricks, in black, red, yellow, green, blue, and (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) The tubs don't have 2x8 bricks in any color. They don't have 2x6, 1x6, or 1x8 bricks in green. There might be other omissions I'm not remembering. (...) I would also consider the following size of bricks and plates as "basic", even though they (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Don't forget 2x2 "corner" (L-shaped) plates and bricks. I consider these to be essentails, even though they don't show up in buckets. And there are always the 1x1x5, 1x2x5, 1x3x5, 1x6x5. Less popular, for certain, but still useful. I note (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| Slopes and inverse slopes aren't "basic" bricks, though ;-) I consider them essential, especially corner slopes and INVERSE corner slopes (too dang hard to get in sets these days). (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) And lest we forget, the 1x1 round bricks, and the 2x2 quarter circle (macaroni) bricks. These have been part of the regular LEGO brick inventory since the 1950's. Gary Istok (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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