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Specialisation (was Brick Storage)
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 18 Aug 2000 23:31:18 GMT
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Vihung Marathe <vihung@marathe.*saynotospam*net>
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Steve Baker wrote:
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> I'm amazed at how many brick types there actually are - clearly many of
> them are unnecessary...some of the bricks seem to have 'evolved' from
> earlier Lego designs - which makes sense - but others are *highly* model-specific
> but could easily be replaced with just two or three 'standard' bricks. I
> wonder why Lego did that.
I 'came back' to Lego just recently after a 15 year absence (the return largely
triggered by MindStorms) - and the one thing that struck me was how specialised Lego
has now become.
I know that when I was 'playing' (the only verb that I ever used) with it as a kid, I
used to just wish for one piece that combined a hinge with a wheel and had a
television screen on it (or something similar) but now I think that Lego is actually
better as fundamental blocks with little specialisation that can be combined and
recombined into almost anything.
Have I become a Lego purist?
Has anyone else lamented the increasing number of model-specific pieces?
-- V
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Message has 1 Reply: | | Re: Specialisation (was Brick Storage)
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| <snippedy-dooh-dah> (...) largely (...) specialised Lego (...) Same with me. I came across a lot of new parts. The Lego Technic evolution was faster than I thought. The new beams, connectors and all that stuff you need to build the new models. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Brick Storage
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| This probably ought to be in the FAQ - and you've probably had this question 1e6 times before....How do people with *VAST* Lego collections store them? I've just spent about four evenings collecting every Lego brick in the house and sorting them (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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