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Hey, wow, are there a lot of sets in 1976 with inverse slopes? Are there any
in 1975?
Erling Thue Dideriksen and Jens Nygaard Knudsen are credited as the
inventors of the inverse slope, er, "toy building block for supplementing
existing block sets", in the Interlego patent filed May 23, 1975 in Denmark,
and filed a year later in the U.S.
In lugnet.general, Richie Dulin writes:
> In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford writes:
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> > Similarly,
> > http://guide.lugnet.com/set/371_3
> > Offers one of the classic LEGO planes in a set with only 115 pieces. I flew
> > this plane for hours as a kid.
>
> Certainly a nice set for its time, with some nice pieces for its time (after
> all, inverse slopes were still something of a novelty in 1976). But only a
> classic "for it's time".
>
> It's not hard to see how some part substitutions and a bit of redesign could
> yield a much better model. A thinner tail (not necessarily a one piece tail,
> but plates on the side, or using one studded 1x2's to make a one stud wide
> tail), a more tapered fuselage (with inverse low slopes perhaps), a more
> detailed nose/engine (as used in the Adventurers planes), tapered wings etc etc.
>
> Compare that to the Black Seas Barracuda or the Guarded Inn or the
> Metroliner... these sets aren't crying out for redesigns or substitutions
> like the 371 is, and I think that's what makes them a classic.
>
> (There are things that could be done to improve them, but nothing dramatic).
>
> Cheers
>
> Richie Dulin
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| (...) The helicopter in the 386 Rescue Vehicles set contains at least a dozen inverse slopes and another 18 slopes. It also contains two interior corner slopes. Not sure what those are called, but they create a 90 degree turn. The 371 also contains (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.1976, lugnet.year.1975)
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| (...) Certainly a nice set for its time, with some nice pieces for its time (after all, inverse slopes were still something of a novelty in 1976). But only a classic "for it's time". It's not hard to see how some part substitutions and a bit of (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.general)
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