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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
1/6 brick measurement, think of a base plate with studs on both sides, or the
top 4x4 of an airplane rudder, detatched, and with studs on both sides of it.)
They come in two varieties: 4x4 and 1x1. They come in the following colors:
gray, lt gray (off white), blue, black, yellow, teal, and olive drab (dark
green) for 4x4's. For 1x1's it's: blue, lt blue, purple, teal, gray, lt gray
(off white), and black.
The female to female is in fact ONE HALF of a normal brick. They come in all
the colors mentioned above, except that I have not seen a lt blue one, but
they do come in the additional color of dk gray.
Mega Bloks has had in some of the more recent sets, some 4x4 male to male that
are exactly 1/3 brick high, (plate with studs on both sides). They come in
colors of floresent green, gray, and black. I haven't picked up most of
the "Pro Builders" series, so I don't know if they have some other colors in
the tan military set, or in the F-1, or purple in the monster truck and a
couple of the other set's like that.
If I'm missing something, please feel free to add.
Rich
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Frank Filz writes:
> 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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