@MCLegoboy said:
"LEGO can be an addictive hobby, and just one set can be a slippery slope. Here's the worst culprit of them all."

If you have to ask what the price is, you can't afford it.

Yet, the first taste is free [back when the had free monthly mini-builds].

Not quite as syllable rich as out Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle RMotD but Sloping Profile Peak Bricks (Red) certainly gets close

@Maxbricks14 said:
"That name is ridiculous, And it's got to be the longest Lego set name ever!"

981-2 from the same year is one letter longer! Any other contenders?

2x2 and 2x4 slopes feel left out.....

@cm5878 said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"That name is ridiculous, And it's got to be the longest Lego set name ever!"

981-2 from the same year is one letter longer! Any other contenders? "

I don't have the time to count the letters, but I'm sure some of the Vikings sets might be up there. I used to write labels for sets I displayed in my room and those always were a full sentence long! Some licensed sets also did this, like some Batman sets that specifically mentioned the vehicle, multiple full character names and what was happening, all in one name!

@Maxbricks14 said:
"That name is ridiculous, And it's got to be the longest Lego set name ever!"

I just thought the exact same thing about the post that followed 4 hours later: Aloy & Varl vs. Shell-Walker & Sawtooth

@HAL_9001 said:
"I'm reminded of when books had great big subtitles filling up the cover and starting all the chapters.

LEGO SET, the Nine-Hundred Eighty First, being a Collection of Slope Bricks at the Angle of Four and Thirty Degrees, including Profile Peak Bricks, in the Colour of Red "

To be used to provide roofing materials for the homes of the citizens Lego Land

Not sure what to use it for, but that discontinued 2x2 "double corner" slope looks interesting.

@Atuin said:
"Not sure what to use it for, but that discontinued 2x2 "double corner" slope looks interesting."

Actually surprised to see they stopped making that all the way back in 1969, and apparently there's no newer version of it? Somehow it seemed like a pretty common piece in my youth....
(and no, I might be old but not that old....)

@kdu2814 said:
" @HAL_9001 said:
"I'm reminded of when books had great big subtitles filling up the cover and starting all the chapters.

LEGO SET, the Nine-Hundred Eighty First, being a Collection of Slope Bricks at the Angle of Four and Thirty Degrees, including Profile Peak Bricks, in the Colour of Red "

To be used to provide roofing materials for the homes of the citizens Lego Land"

Part the First: Sturdy foundations, and their importance to the stability of the roof that will eventually be built thereupon.

These bricks are peak

That’s certainly a name.

I was really not expecting to see those profile peak bricks included, but wow, there they are!

@WizardOfOss said:
" @Atuin said:
"Not sure what to use it for, but that discontinued 2x2 "double corner" slope looks interesting."

Actually surprised to see they stopped making that all the way back in 1969, and apparently there's no newer version of it? Somehow it seemed like a pretty common piece in my youth....
(and no, I might be old but not that old....)"

It's somewhat obsolete, ironically thanks to parts included in this very set. Basically, the only thing that piece can be used for that can't be recreated with other parts of this set is to build a roof that consists solely of that part. If you combine the three smaller parts in the bottom row, you can produce the exact same concave/convex peak as the part in the upper right combined with second from the left in the bottom row. The trick is, that overhang peak in the lower left is much more versatile.

@WizardOfOss said:
"2x2 and 2x4 slopes feel left out....."

Not for kids of the time though. We had plenty of 2x2 and 2x4 slopes but could only build straight roofs. Service packs like these added variety.

@PurpleDave, apart from the fact that it would end up a 2x3 piece which for most cases wouldn't be an issue, indeed you can. But it would look kinda messy and would be more fragile. And maybe it's just me, but we had many more of those "all in one" pieces than those overhang ones.

@CCC said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
"2x2 and 2x4 slopes feel left out....."

Not for kids of the time though. We had plenty of 2x2 and 2x4 slopes but could only build straight roofs. Service packs like these added variety."

Fair point.

@WizardOfOss said:
" @PurpleDave, apart from the fact that it would end up a 2x3 piece which for most cases wouldn't be an issue, indeed you can. But it would look kinda messy and would be more fragile. And maybe it's just me, but we had many more of those "all in one" pieces than those overhang ones."

Again, only if you're trying to limit the peak to this 2x2 piece is it impossible to replicate that 90 degree bend. I pointed out one possible solution, but you can just as easily replace that 2x1 double slope with a 2x2 or 2x4, depending on the specific design of the model. And presumably you'd be attaching these to a roof, so it's not much of an issue that it would require more pieces to achieve the same result. Furthermore, the triple peak and the overhang are both far more versatile than the 90 degree bend, which is why both of them are still in production today. I was even able to use a bunch of the overhang parts to build removable wings that nest around the roof of the Home Alone house, without having to make a single alteration to the official set.

@PurpleDave said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
" @Atuin said:
"Not sure what to use it for, but that discontinued 2x2 "double corner" slope looks interesting."

Actually surprised to see they stopped making that all the way back in 1969, and apparently there's no newer version of it? Somehow it seemed like a pretty common piece in my youth....
(and no, I might be old but not that old....)"

It's somewhat obsolete, ironically thanks to parts included in this very set. Basically, the only thing that piece can be used for that can't be recreated with other parts of this set is to build a roof that consists solely of that part. If you combine the three smaller parts in the bottom row, you can produce the exact same concave/convex peak as the part in the upper right combined with second from the left in the bottom row. The trick is, that overhang peak in the lower left is much more versatile."

I never owned any of those 'double corner' parts but managed to get by using the same combination of pieces already described - these 45 degree slopes are still my favourite pieces as they are so versatile and you could put together really quite complex roof slopes and intersections . I recently created a Tudor corner building MOC in my town and the roof looks really good - bizarrely the most plentiful colour to easily get all of the 45 degree slope options is dark blue - it sort of looks slate like so I think it works...

@danieltheo:
I was using white to match the Home Alone roof, but thankfully they were still in production. And the most difficult part of my expansion was figuring out how to attach the topmost overhang piece when I was stepping them up the entire roof. To give you the scenario, put two of those pieces right next to each other so there’s a 2x2 valley between the peaks. Now attach a third one directly above them, so it lines up with the angled ends, and won’t prevent them from nesting against a sloped roof. There’s a purist solution, but it took me a few days to think of the one element that allows this to work.