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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Jeremiah VanderMark wrote:
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First, the height/width ratio is slightly different from that of normal
Lego or Mega Bloks - two plates (or one brick) tall equals one brick’s width,
a mighty useful setup. Thanks to this, Nano sets make good use of SNOT for
contoured shapes, something Lego could learn from.
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There are advantages to both arrangements, but most of them fall to the original
design. A 1:1:1 ratio means it’s really easy to get stuff to line up, but it
cuts down on a lot of the versatility found in the 5:5:6 ratio used by The LEGO
Company. LEGO plates can be gripped by the edge between two rows of studs,
which won’t be at all possible with this arrangement. People have also figured
out all kinds of SNOT tricks to produce varying fractions of offset, which again
isn’t possible with this design. TECHNIC bricks wouldn’t be possible without
either the extra height to allow for the stud interface, or skinnier TECHNIC
pins that couldn’t be gripped in the underside of 1x bricks (and you can just
forget the stud-pin). Much like the metric system, it’s easy to look at the
ease of conversion and think it’s a great idea...until you try to do something
that can’t be expressed in 1/2 units. If you really study the various ratios of
LEGO bricks and how it enables them to interact, it’s actually quite amazing.
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I’m still trying to find a way to interface these things with the One True
Brick, though.
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Lacking any other means, you could always build a little cage for them... ;P
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| (...) OK, now that I've had some time with the little things, I can give an idea of how they work. First, the height/width ratio is slightly different from that of normal Lego or Mega Bloks - two plates (or one brick) tall equals one brick's width, (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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