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Subject:	Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Wed, 9 Dec 1998 05:59:36 GMT
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Sproaticus wrote: > > 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 hand, a piece could be useless if you have a > hundred of them and they're used only one way. > > Here's my list: > 7. 4746 - Space Tail 4 x 4 x 2 With Rocket > 4. 4591 - Brick 2 x 2 x 2 Round With Fins 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 right now would have to be the 2x4/ 2x4 old style plate hinge, which I have a bazillion of and never use. #2 is the technic angled end beam. It slopes the wrong way to be of much use to me. Now one that sloped up instead so I could use it on the underside of train cars, that would be VERY useful. I could mount it upside down but it's not worth spending rare pieces to get it to mount cleanly. #3 would be all the right opening red 4 pane town doors I have from buying too many of the doors/windows sets. Why could they not also make some left opening ones? #4 is just about anything in trans orange or trans lt green. I WAS gonna say the 1x3 and 2x3 bricks but I just had a project that consumed a bunch of them (an airport control tower... uses 2 bigfoot and 2 discovery station windshields, upside down, for the big glass panels. The whole upper story is upside down which lets me mount radar screens directly on the underside of theceiling of the tower for a very realistic effect. ) -- Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please. - Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please. - Stick to the facts when posting about others, please. - This is a family newsgroup, thanks.

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		Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
(...) 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)

		Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
(...) 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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		Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
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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