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Re: Tyco problems and structures that Rock!
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Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:29:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Alan Findlay writes:
> The wall is almost exclusively gray Megabloks (from the ProBuilder
> Battleship -- I bought two).
Good choice--dollar-for-dollar the Kittyhawk is the best source of bulk
grey 2x4's that you can find. Fifty bucks for ~630 grey 2x4's, not to
mention a ton of other parts, too. By the time word had spread of the
grey-value of the Sith Infiltrator, I'd already acquired three copies of the
9780 and was swimming in grey!
> By the time I had built the dike on the Lego baseplates, I noticed that the
> ends (32 studs apart) seemed to be "curling" up. The addition of the wall
> did not alter this curl. So, the whole wall kinda "rocked" end to end. As a
> result, the connection at the end to the next section was poor -- tight at
> the bottom, about 1-2 mm gap at the top (7 bricks high).
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> I removed the wall from the dike, and tested each part separately. The dike
> part (mostly Tyco) rocked. The wall part (Megablok) sits flush on the table.
> The conclusion I draw is that the Tycos do not have a good fit. So I guess
> I'll have to ditch the Tycos in the dike (no pun intended) and remake it
> with Megabloks and Legos.
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> Have others experienced fit problems with Tyco's?
That's an interesting problem. I don't have enough bulk Tyco bricks to
run a real comparison, but I've noticed exactly the problem you describe
when I've built long structures with MegaBloks. When I tried to build a
144-long church using 2x4 bricks for much of the base, I found that the
bricks didn't sit properly on the 48x48 plates I was using. In the end I
chose to skip the baseplates, and the whole structure seemed to rest okay on
my wood floor.
The "curling" you cite must result from a small imprecision, hard to
detect in individual bricks, but annoyingly apparent when a large number of
bricks are joined. You might lessen the effect by interspersing your
MegaBloks with true LEGO bricks, but I've never experimented too much with
that technique.
Dave!
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