Random part of the day: Design Brick 3X3X1, W/ 2 Knobs, No.1
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random part is 67651, 'Design Brick 3X3X1, W/ 2 Knobs, No.1', which is a System part, category Decoration Elements. It was introduced this year, has been made in 1 colour and has appeared in 2 sets, one of the first of which was 75546 Minions in Gru's Lab.
Our members collectively own a total of 1,544 of them. If you'd like to buy some you should find them for sale at BrickLink.
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Poor Otto...
what is this!?!?
minion moment
No banana!?
I can see myself using that piece for a turret on a spacecraft, with the close-together studs for a double barrel.
@Lego_mini_fan:
It’s Otto’s scalp!
He has been...
decraniated...
Good.
This would be great in a Blacktron moc! I want 10!
It’s incredible what seeing a piece out of context can do for your imagination.
Is this the first license-specific RPotD we've had?
Hang on, I had a comment under a Minions article on how the new head piece could be used. I'll copy and paste it here. Though unfortunately there isn't really a way to make a 3x3 smooth cylinder, I was talking about the 2x2 ones:
"I can't help but feel this theme has been a massive flop due to the movie being delayed. However, the Minions have some nice pieces which could appear elsewhere. The heads could be round snot bricks, used to attach pontoons to bottoms of helicopters and submarines, like part 6042. The hair stalk could be used for foliage. The minion pieces would work well for more NPCs in the Mario theme, particularly the villain Fawful."
I could see this being used as a hub for some sort of turret, with the barrels coming out of the eye connections
Great piece for a moc as the navel in a Beijing bikini.
Discombobulated Bob, eh?
Kudos to LEGO on making Minions that look decent, and like Minions, without making them more like small action figures, as did MEGA (and whom I can't stop buying).
@cody6268:
Er'...more of a LoBobimy I'd say...:)
A facebook mom has fallen into the river in LEGO City!
Start the Minion meme!
"HEY!"
You can build the Minion meme!
@Norikins :
I’ve picked up dupes of everything they’ve released so far except the two Brickheadz, the blister pack, and the keychains (one copy each). I have no idea what the sales numbers are, but Minions are popular in general, and it’s not just LEGO sets that have been pushed out over a year before the film will finally land. Would they be selling better if the movie was actually out? Yeah, but probably more because people would know to look for Minions merch than that they’d suddenly develop an interest because of the fifth film.
All seven shows we’ve done since the first wave of sets released has had Minions on it, and they’ve always generated positive comments. So far, all I’ve done is put a giant Kevin (simplified from his Lair build, so he doesn’t open) with Bob/Stuart/Otto on the layout, and the last two shows I added a guy in a banana costume running in terror. I do need to figure out two more scenes I can add, though, since we’ll have three layouts up the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
@cody6268:
@brick_r:
It’s Otto, not Bob. The three Minions from the first film are 2-wide, with whole “heads” that include their mouths. Otto is the only 3-wide Minion, so they didn’t have to make him height-adjustable, and simplified his design a bit as a result.
@Saffroth said:
"I can see myself using that piece for a turret on a spacecraft, with the close-together studs for a double barrel."
Like a Blacktron ship!
@Kynareth has the right idea.
Sometimes it takes a little more creativity to use space parts in a MOC.
Seeing a minion scalped like that is surprisingly unsettling
Bee-do, bee-do, bee-do!
Now, this is a truly random element :)
Cut to Dr Nefario dipping toast soldiers into Otto's skull cavity...
Sorry.
@ComfySofa:
Do chilled Minion brains taste like banana Tic-Tacs? Just asking for Dr. Jones...
Banana
@Saffroth said:
"I can see myself using that piece for a turret on a spacecraft, with the close-together studs for a double barrel."
My thoughts exactly! I need to make a gunship that uses it for a chin-gun or something.
Scalped minion
@PurpleDave :
So you're saying it's a LobOttomy now...got ya':)
Actually YT channel 'Film Theory' did a great video on Minions, and figured out some really fun stuff...