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craig hamilton wrote:
> funny you should ask...
>
> i just got a handful of these very tyco pieces in my wednesday fotw! both
> douple-genders, even: in blue, a lt gray, and dark olive (military) green.
> this fotw one of those deals where you get a forestmen's river fortress and
> other great stuff if you can sort it out from a box of lego, tyco,
> megablock, tinker toy, two other "mutant" clones, and bits of g.i.joe.
>
> they are geat pieces, and i will use them, and tlc should make their own
> superior version! the now defunct tyco is imho the best clone, and the only
> one i use without feeling bad. i use a little mega-block here and there, but
> it leaves an unpleasant aftertaste.
>
> these are 2x2 square pieces. double males have open cylinder studs on
> both sides of a square "plate" only about as thick as a thin wall lego element.
>
> tyco plates are half a brick rater than a third like lego. double females
> are a half brick thick square frames with a hollow thin wall center socket
> floated by four horizontal and vertical thin walls. ingenious design, i must
> admit, and it works with lego as if it was a lego element itself. i'm kind
> of amazed, really.
It seems to me that I've seen a single stud double male part also (I'll
have to dig into my clone-brands bucket tonight). I've also not checked
what the actual thickness of the double male part is, it definitely is
going to cause glitches in Tyco geometry, but if it's 1/2 plate
thickness, would be quite useable in LEGO geometry.
The double female part will be a little difficult to use in LEGO
geometry, but not impossible. It is just 1.5 plates thick, which can be
worked with (and of course you can also mix in Tyco plates to get more
1.5 plate thickness offsets where needed).
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Frank Filz
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| Why don't people ask me? I'm one of the BEST resident experts on clones and clone piece types. Tyco made male to male gender changers. They unfortunately have a 1/6 bick space that the studs attatch to. (For those that need help understanding the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) funny you should ask... i just got a handful of these very tyco pieces in my wednesday fotw! both douple-genders, even: in blue, a lt gray, and dark olive (military) green. this fotw one of those deals where you get a forestmen's river (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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