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Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:05:53 GMT
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Once upon a time, Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> wrote:
> 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 complete all white hinge and one complete all blue
> hinge..."
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> The reason I bet TLG doesn't do this relates to number of different
> parts. Each part is in a different cassette. you now have 4 cassettes
> that have to be present during part insertion into bags where doing it
> the other way you only have 2 cassettes... two less steps in the mfg
> process.
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
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