Random part of the day: Plate 2X3, W/ Cut Out

Most recent set I got this piece in: 71785: Jay's Titan Mech

I thought it was a 2x2 corner plate rendering glitch.

@Randomness said:
"Wow, I have none of these.
If only I had 7, then I could make a "Seven C's" joke."

It really is too bad you don’t have any, then.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"The most recent set i got this piece in: 77012. It is an amazing set and if you're considering getting it, go ahead it is an amazing set, my second favourite ever."
It's my most recent set, as well. Of course, it's my only set with this piece, but yes, it's an awesome set, even if it didn't come with any seagulls. Thank Ole Kirk for PaB! Although I can't really fault Lego for not wanting to celebrate turning a flock of birds into your personal kamikaze squad."

Well, they didn't have to. The scene they are re-creating is before and in the tunnel and when the plane blows up. But if they did include seagulls they would have extended the scene they were re-creating.... and the other plane drops a bomb on the road and the car gets stuck in it. So they climb down the bank and see the fighter coming for them. Thinking quickly Henry Sr throws his suitcase into Indy's arms grabs his umbrella, opens and closes it to scare the birds which fly up into the fighter and it crashes into the cliffs.

@Sandinista said:
"I hate this piece and everything it represents.

This piece doesn't need to exist. It can be created using a combination of other existing plates. But why does it exist? Because of failure of imagination. For a company that once prided itself on creativity, the fact current designers need new molds for every other set is the single best example of why Lego lost it's charm. Gone are the days of simplicity and engineering a way around a problem. Instead of innovating a solution, they just make a new part and drive the costs of all the sets up, because a new part equals a new mold, and a new mold requires time, energy, and manpower to produce.

This piece is the end of history. "

No! one of the sets it is in, 77012 is an excellent value.

Huh, didn’t think I owned any of these, but something seemed familiar.
Turns out out I do own a motley collection of them, from 10305. Pretty sure they find a lot of use as windowsills there

If you don't like a certain part, I suggest you make a decisive but questionable move, because it shows the power you have as a serious hobbyist: throw it away. You don't have to put up with those amiss elements that eat away creativity!

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what even is this part? It looks like it can break far too easily in the middle if you want to remove it from a simple plate?

And yeah, parts like this make sets more like specific 3D puzzles. The amount of 'modified' parts from recent years is wild, even though there have always been new parts. Sure, it could be useful. But when every part is 'useful' like that you get quite a challenge when making alternate builds. It can be done, but with too many it becomes a complex task to make anything at all without copious amounts of parts.

To paraphrase a classic saying: Tetris anyone?:D

I'm firmly in the "don't like these kinds of parts" camp. I find pieces whose job can be done by a combination of other pieces useless and even annoying for the laziness they display.
There are loads of new molds that fulfill a useful purpose that couldn't have been achieved by existing pieces.

Parts like this one otoh are totally unnecessary.
I've got the fighter plane chase set which contains this piece, yet it is simply not needed there. It could have been two 1x4 and one 1x2 plate, or one 2x3 and four 1x1 plates. Especially since those two pieces in the Indy set are completely covered over in the end. Absolute BS piece.
I just checked the instructions of several other sets that use this piece. I couldn't find a single instance where this piece fulfilled a useful purpose that necessitated this exact shape.

Just looked up how it was used in that Singapore set, and indeed that too could have easily been done with existing pieces. That said, I don't really mind pieces like this either, as I can see situations where it could be quite useful, and it's still not too specialized for just one single purpose. It's only kinda weird that they have pieces like this while I could think of quite a bunch of much more versatile and useful pieces they still don't have (especially when other brands do).

@brick_r said:
"To paraphrase a classic saying: Tetris anyone?:D"

This part is not possible in actual Tetris, but there were a few knockoff games back in the day, and I think one used pentominoes in addition to the traditional tetrominoes everyone is familiar with.

@Sandinista said:
"I hate this piece and everything it represents.

This piece doesn't need to exist. It can be created using a combination of other existing plates. But why does it exist? Because of failure of imagination. For a company that once prided itself on creativity, the fact current designers need new molds for every other set is the single best example of why Lego lost it's charm. Gone are the days of simplicity and engineering a way around a problem. Instead of innovating a solution, they just make a new part and drive the costs of all the sets up, because a new part equals a new mold, and a new mold requires time, energy, and manpower to produce.

This piece is the end of history. "

this rant ought to be the start of you going to therapy

Tbh, a piece like this is still interesting, certainly not one of those Juniors parts situations.

It's used very nicely in 60364: Street Skate Park to hold up the basketball hoop without needing to add extra layers of plates. Sure they could've used a 1x3 and 2 1x1, but then the actual tile or the "floating" plates would probably fall off really easily if a kid tries to play with the basketball hoop.