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Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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lugnet.starwars
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Sat, 20 May 2000 03:04:29 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Mark Sandlin writes:
> What we complain about are things that reach us on an emotional level.
> Those of us who are against "juniorization" are against it because we
> see this as a cheapening of the toys we grew up with and a loss of the
> ability to build things with what otherwise would have been more parts.
> Would you rather have 8 2x3 slopes, or just one big POOP? You can
> build a variety of things with 8 slopes, but you can only make a single
> shape out of that POOP.
Here's an example of how limiting the 1x4x3 poops are compared to 1x4s: if you
had one 2 1x4x3 bricks, you have 24 possible combonations. If you have six
1x4s, you have 102,081,500 possible combonations. Incredible.
Alan
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| (...) If I was playing the devil's advocate, I would say that this train of thought suggests that there should be no bricks, only plates. After all, according to your math, there are only 24 ways to combine to 1x4 bricks, but there are 102,081,500 (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) I didn't realise there was a 1x4x3 brick (!!). I've only seen thinwalls and windows of that dimension; the thinwalls, of course, don't count as POOPs, because they perform a service that cannot be rendered with standard bricks--namely, making (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) pieces (...) red (...) more (...) plates, (...) What we complain about are things that reach us on an emotional level. Those of us who are against "juniorization" are against it because we see this as a cheapening of the toys we grew up with (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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