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Hi all, What's on the top of your list of useless pieces? Rare and/or special pieces might not count -- it's not useless just because it has a label or a sticker on it, or because you've only seen it in one set in your entire life. On the other (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Useless? I'll buy these in any quantity that people want to sell, especially 4591 Good thread, though. Right now I am starting to think that the pieces that I have the most of and use the least of must be the most useless... My #1 contender (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I would have to say the front slope from Blaze Commander #6525. I can't even decide where to sort this piece, with the low slopes?? or with wheel well pieces?? If you can't sort it, then you can't find it, or use it. Hence, useless. Barry (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Good point. Barbara and I sort everything by color, which for the size of our collection, is starting to become inconvenient. Our black pieces fill a storage drawer which measures 11 x 6 x 16 inches (about 4.5 gallons or 17.4 litres) -- making (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) which I JUST don't understand. I have some color sorted stuff now and it is SO hard to find things (...) Well, just in case, I bet Damraska will want it all. (just trying to help) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I would have said the same about those, too. But my pyramid consumed quite a few of both, especially when I ran out of 2x4's, and 2x3's were all that was left. 1x3's were essential for the corners. For me, probably the most generally useless (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I find that I end up using most of my bricks regardless of size...I find the 1x1's _very_ useful in my projects because my attempts to replicate 'realistic' architecture on a minifig scale always seem to leave holes in the weirdest places. (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, a year ago our entire collection would fit within six 8.5 x 11 x 2 inch drawers. They were so shallow, finding a specific piece was cake. (...) Well, I suppose I would entertain offers. For roughly 18,000 pieces, I'll accept $250,000 or (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'll split that lot with Larry, if he lets me... :) (...) Let me know when you want to let some go. Seriously. (...) Agreed, all doors should be paired. (...) I hope Dave Simmons doesn't read this, but again if you're looking to unload some, (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) you can use 4x4 radar dishes to lid them but since the dishes don't come in brown they are really, as you put it, best suited for rain barrels. I love the idea of this thread but where are the suggestions of "how to use them"? Most of the Town (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) For some reason, I have a strong negative reaction to this piece. Maybe because it doesn't play well with other bricks? Steve (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I really like the big western barrels myself. It would be cool to have lids for them, but reversed and on their sides I think they make cool casks for a winery/brewery. Brown would be a weird color for it, but I guess you could use them as (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hmm. Hadn't thot of it that way, but it certainly makes sense. TLG could have accomplished the same thing with 1 2x6, 4 2x2 med slopes and 4 2x2 med inv slopes for use in other ways; or even made the legs themselves into a new type of piece, (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yeah I agree. The human mind is really good at sorting by color: if you're trying to find one 2x2 red piece mixed in with 1000 white ones, piece of cake. But try to find one 2x3 mixed in with 1000 2x2s and 2x4s of the same color... (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes, that is very cool. You could make a cool tavern/inn if you didn't have an aversion to acquiring Scala turkeys and legs. 'Twould make a fine feast. (...) Actually I wouldn't mind brown spaceships, or even just parts being brown as long as (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Pieces we'd like to see (was: Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...))
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A 2x3 offset brick would be very cool! Like the 'zigzag octagonal brick' from Aquazone et al. Except a regular sloped brick. Actually, a 1x3 offset brick would be even better. I'm wanting those things everywhere. Does anyone else have new pieces (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) YES. Just about _every_ time I build something I wish for this: A black Technic Axle with Pin, where the "pin" part is high friction. Basically, a cross between part 3749 and 4459. I can't believe TLG has not made this piece. It is so obvious. (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You _must_ be insane. How do you find anything? That sorting logic would be fine for socks and underwear, but for Lego? -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Insanity comes with the job. You *can't* walk out of TRU with an armload of Legos without leaving a few brain cells behind! Curiously enough, the same thing occurs at school. Leave with $459 worth of books, leave a few brain cells behind.\ The (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Sproaticus wrote in message <3672DEAC.6FF236B9@g...es.com>... (...) You get that. At least you married someone the same size as you :) Moz (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sounds like what you're leaving behind is a wad of cash. (...) <G> "Sproat, always good for a big grin" (...) Cross-dressing's a no-no in your family unit? -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) So, Terry, what you're telling me is, that going to college is nothing but a big scam perpetuated by the haves to futher deplete the have-nots in a continuous plot to widen the power gap between the suits and the engineers? Are you implying (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It's a fun little virus, fairly harmless (1). Good start. However, this one footnote is a dangler... no antecedent. 1 - unlike say, the "debating religion in newsgroups" virus, which I seem to have intially vectored into LUGNET inadvertantly (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Er, um, this should be "I'm the DANGLING footnote virus!". So stamp it out. :-) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Muhahahaa...nice. Selçuk (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Hi all, I recently wrote a message in which I used the term "high-school drop-out" in a derogatory fashion. I realize that this may (rightfully so) give someone cause to consider my mental and social stability. This (1) has bothered me ever since, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not to mention Albert Einstein. (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Einstein was pretty cool, but he's no Billy Joule. Joel. Arg. Whatever. :-, Cheers, - Sproat (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hmmm... I guess it is about time to go through a Great Re-Org. So soon after a Great Purge of our assembled sets, too. I was thinking a scheme that almost parallels the LDraw naming scheme: e.g. bricks, bricks with studs not on top and (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey, this is off-topic in this newsgroup. :) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <3671185f.2441426@lu...et.com>... (...) I'd like to see 1X1 and 1X2 plates with studs on top and bottom, and the same only with female top and bottom. For inverting pieces whenever you feel like it. -John Van (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Something like this, but I haven't got that many pieces :) Technic beams, terchnic plates, Technic connecting pieces/axles/etc. regular bricks, regular plates, regular tiles Other are just about the main categories. The I sort for example into (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yeah, well what a hoser you are then. Take off, eh? (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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James Brown writes: <SNIP> (...) My big gripe is the 1 x 2 plate 2 finger and 3 finger hinge pieces. TLG does a good job matching colors in sets, but I always end up with two 1 x 2 plate 2 finger hinge pieces in white (1) and two 1 x 2 plate 3 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <AHEM> You ain't so tough, eh? Yeah like, Bob my brother an' me, we was talkin', eh, about like, how tough we was when we got lost in the woods, you know? Like, this ranger guy, he found us, he was Ned, what a knob, eh? Dressed up in that red (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Remember that time we went to the Provincial Park? So I guess there's nothing more needs to be said, eh? (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Are you sure you don't mean Wisconson State Park?? You can't tell a WI and an ON accent apart none too good, eh? Doncha think? You betcha. (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I wouldn't count hinge-plates in pairs, because there are a fair number of elements with 2- or 3-finger hinges which aren't paired -- the control lever (rod with end-stud and 3-finger hinge), the robot finger (3L rod with 3-finger hinge at one (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You want that with light friction, or stick-a-metal-rod-in-the-center friction? :) Steve (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Here's a simple one: 1x2 plate with *2-finger* hinge on the side. Sounds silly, but I could have used a bunch of these in one particular model. The alternatives I came up with weren't as good. How about port- and starboard- halves of the (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Isn't the UP actually part of Canada? Yah sure. Steve (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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So does this belong in lugnet.admin.database, or lugnet.storage? Steve (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) a (...) a (...) the (...) OK Point well taken. I was speaking strictly from the instance where the hinges are used in pairs. I can see not including the mating hinge half when using it with other elements, but my opinion remains unchanged when (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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"Four pounds of backbacon, three french toasts, two turtlenecks... and a beer, in a tree."(1) (...) From Tom McDonald Anti-spam block in place. (URL) You haven't lived until the vacuum cleaner has pulled the tape out of a cassette for you. Do what (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, from experience I have come to trust their basic Office set (Word, Excel, Access) and Win NT. That's most likely because MS didn't write the things, but just bought the companies that wrote them. Though I have to agree, it *is* a (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Huh? I thought MS wrote all the above. Who did MS buy them from? (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ah, NOW i get it. Is this it? "Suppose you have a model that for artistic reasons should have blue white hinges. Fine. Make one blue end the 2 end and the other blue end the 3 end, when possible. Ditto for white Then the builder later has one (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oops - NT was written by IBM, which MS obvisouly didn't buy. It was originally called something like "Windows OS/2" or something, then after the split, most of the really good parts went into OS/2. I don't remember exactly who wrote Word, (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Correctamundo (...) I can see their point in the manufacturing/packaging processes. With their volume though, the added costs should be minimal. Think about the variety of parts in many of their sets. I could argue this point for quite a while (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) At times, I need the SAMRITC type. So a mix of types sure wouldn't hurt. BTW, I needed some of those old super high friction types the other day, so I searched through my bin. Of all those, I only found _one_ of that type. Man, was I PO'd. I (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Are ya sure they bought it? Or did they just steal it, like Windows itself? Mark "WinErr:007 System price error - Inadequate money spent on hardware" (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not to mention what it would do to their molding production runs... The 'hinge runs' are relatively small (hinges aren't *that* common), and alternating colors would give them twice as many hinge runs, each at half the size. Steve (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's splitting hairs when it comes to MS... I'll give them credit for one thing: they're very good about their choice of companies when it comes to product plundering. Cheers, - Sproat (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Indeed - I've been trying to hunt down transparent blue plates for a little while now, and have had to come to the conclusion they don't exist. Transparent blue bricks would be great too! (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I can't swear about this, but I think the new Space Port series may have some trans-blue plates. At least in 2x2 size. I saw some of them today at a TRU in Mesa, AZ and I seem to recall seeing those. At the time, I was too interested in the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I had a 4x6 trans blue plate. And I know there much included into space sets in mid 80's. Selçuk (26 years ago, 19-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Also sprach Selçuk <teyyareci>: : I had a 4x6 trans blue plate. And I know there much included into space sets i : mid 80's. Indeed. 6927 (the All-Terrain Vehicle) had two 3x6 trans-blue slopes and 2 1x4 trans-blue bricks. 6929 (Starfleet Voyager) (...) (26 years ago, 20-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <devil's advocate> They didn't steal windows. They stole the "look 'n' Feel" of windows. (sound familiar? :) ) Anyway, The company they stole it from also stole it from someone else, so why they even _bothered_to sue is beyong me.... (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Also sprach Jasper Janssen: : <devil's advocate> They didn't steal windows. They stole the "look 'n' : Feel" of windows. (sound familiar? :) ) Anyway, The company they stole : it from also stole it from someone else, so why they even _bothered_to : (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Shouldn't that be "the Windows buyer gets the bugs"? I just worked with MacOS and I was impressed! After a whole days work, I didn't get a single ErrorMessage, BSoD or Dr. Watson!!! This is proof: it CAN be done right! (Please mr. Gates. Steel (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh I don't know... "640k ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates, 1983 or thereabouts.... Of course, that was later, so your statement still stands :) (...) Possibly. Tho personally, I find the apple UI somewhat worse than the current (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Linux isn't stable because it's an open source project. It's not portable, it's not scalable, no one uses it for anything serious, and it'll soon be in violation of the standards as soon as Microsoft invents them. Microsoft invented the (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I just thought I'd mention that VB is my personal bogeyman of the moment. I very much prefer a scripting language that has meat to it, such as Perl. Having said that, I just read something that chilled my blood. Evidently, PC Magazine named (...) (26 years ago, 22-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, it isn't stable because it's an open source project. It's stable because it's stable. (...) Not portable huh? Did I see Red Hat on Intel, Alpha, PowerPC, and some others? not serious? How many ISPs do I know that use Linux as their *nix (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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