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Re: Read Sales in the Subset
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lugnet.loc.au
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Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:56:00 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Michael Dallaston wrote:
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To be fair, it is one of these:
Not the most useful piece ever made...
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Do you know why they made that piece? Along with
They provide a way of connecting modules without having the Technic peg migrate
to the wrong side when disconnecting. The two-pronged version provides a way to
connect modules in a 2x2 space whilst simultaneously restricting rotation.
Sounds fairly useful to me... although I would like to have a 1x1 version as
well.
It reminds me of how they made
to circumvent the substantial shortcoming of
which someone in loc.au had the ignorance to call juniorized... he/she
obviously needed to spend more time building.
Perhaps we need to have a better definition of ‘useful’, one that avoids
confusion with ‘useable’ which people often use when defending parts that aren’t
useful parts.
I’d say that if a part only had one use, but a) it was a general usage and
b) the part was especially helpful at it, I would consider the part to be
useful. Hence a brick-with-peg is useful (as the applications I mentioned above
are general and it’s very helpful for them) but a micromotor base isn’t (as its
use isn’t general despite being quite helpful for orienting your micromotor
sideways). It’s harder to think of examples of elements that have a general use
but aren’t very helpful at it - I think the 1x6x5 and 6x4 bricks would come
close though.
Cheers,
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) Everyone seems jumpy on Lugnet today... perhaps it's just me. I didn't mean to imply it was useless, just that it wasn't a major buying point of the set. I'm by no means a brick-purist, and am all for new and non-standard pieces, except when (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| (...) I remember said converstation and reacanted immediately. Though I will point out that, in context, it was an odd choice. The model it came in made no use of the peice's improved functionality. And yes, I have spent more time building and (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| (...) Actually, I like both these parts, because they provide a technic peg (or two) on one side and a smooth surface on the other. Of course I never would have a use for them in blue, though ;-). Cheers Richie Dulin (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| (...) To be fair, it is one of these: [LDrawPart 30526:1] Not the most useful piece ever made... I reckon they're just trying to ged rid of all their blue stock before next year, where we will see new 'Bluish' Blue, shifted toward the blue spectrum (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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