Random part of the day: Tile 1X3, Inverted, W/ 3.2 Hole

@MCLegoboy: And on the gripping hand, we got a useful inverted tile out of it.

In yellow, I think this would make a good traffic light holder.

Since Unikitty's face is flat, the white color doesn't really convey depth. Unikitty actually has a beard.

One thing I don’t understand is why the hole is there.

@peterlmorris said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"I just ordered 50 of these in white to make two cell towers. Yes, two.

@peterlmorris:
This part was created to be Unikitty’s chin. In her original form, her neck was a 1x1 round plate and her chin was a 1x3 plate. It makes a very unstable connection, as noted above. It was pretty much impossible to pick her up without beheading her.

With this part, the neck was changed to the “nipple tile”, or 1x1 round tile w/ bar. The hole on this part attaches to the bar, and the two parts form a more stable connection. Probably not as stable as a minifig head, if other comments above are to be believed, but better than before."

Thanks PurpleDave! I honestly never realized the two parts shared an origin. I just figured it was an expansion of the original 2x2 inverted tile. But that one has no hole.

I wish there were more inverted parts. An inverted cheese slope would be awesome for finishing detail.

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Inverted tile should come in many more size but at the very least 1x2 and 1x1 (with the existing 2x2 you could do just about any configuration with those two - of course 1x1 would suffice but to reduce the number of parts).

Inverted cheese slopes would be incredibly useful.

In fact, most parts should be produced with its counter-part (inverse). Of course, no company would ever do that unless explicitly required but it would be nice to see it in due time

Speaking of other parts I'd like to see: I would also like to see 1x2 fence and corner fence (now only available in 1x4).

is there a specific reason why we've only gotten 2 types of inverted tiles?

@TheOtherMike said:
" @MCLegoboy: And on the gripping hand, we got a useful inverted tile out of it."

I understood that reference.

@HOBBES said:
" @peterlmorris said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"I just ordered 50 of these in white to make two cell towers. Yes, two.

@peterlmorris:
This part was created to be Unikitty’s chin. In her original form, her neck was a 1x1 round plate and her chin was a 1x3 plate. It makes a very unstable connection, as noted above. It was pretty much impossible to pick her up without beheading her.

With this part, the neck was changed to the “nipple tile”, or 1x1 round tile w/ bar. The hole on this part attaches to the bar, and the two parts form a more stable connection. Probably not as stable as a minifig head, if other comments above are to be believed, but better than before."

Thanks PurpleDave! I honestly never realized the two parts shared an origin. I just figured it was an expansion of the original 2x2 inverted tile. But that one has no hole.

I wish there were more inverted parts. An inverted cheese slope would be awesome for finishing detail.

"

Inverted tile should come in many more size but at the very least 1x2 and 1x1 (with the existing 2x2 you could do just about any configuration with those two - of course 1x1 would suffice but to reduce the number of parts).

Inverted cheese slopes would be incredibly useful.

In fact, most parts should be produced with its counter-part (inverse). Of course, no company would ever do that unless explicitly required but it would be nice to see it in due time

Speaking of other parts I'd like to see: I would also like to see 1x2 fence and corner fence (now only available in 1x4)."

@ToaofPlastic,
LEGO doesn’t take a systematic approach to new part design despite the name ‘System’. If it did, there would be parts such as those described in this thread and other parts such as unmodified long and short bars and a greater variety of plain connector parts for bars.

Instead, LEGO produces new moulds as it needs them for sets. To justify the cost, new parts then often appear in multiple sets though not always.

@MCLegoboy said:
"On the one hand, you lose a lot of mobility in Unikitty's head, on the other, her head doesn't constantly fall off everytime you pick her up."

I'm STILL waiting for a blue one to fix AstroKitty's head from 70816

I also made a spacesuit in white for Puppycorn using the 1x3 brick face from 41775-6 as well to complement this Astrokitty.

@peterlmorris:
Oh, you have no idea how useful inverted cheese wedges would be. Upside-down cheese wedges are the perfect shape to fill in around some of the flared fenders, but making that happen in some MOCs gets very tricky. I started out hanging them with 1x6 plates, then 1x2 plates, and I’ve even had to use 2x2 corner plates sometimes. On my 1960’s Ford Good Humor ice cream truck, I even have four of the little buggers suspended upside-down, not actually connected to any other parts, pinned in place from all six directions, to fill in gaps on the rear pontoon fenders.

@HOBBES:
You can cheat around the fence issue by strategic addition of fence posts.

@Murdoch17:
Regarding yesterday, Cheap Trick has sold over 20 million albums total, which is nothing to sneeze at. The Beatles, on the other hand, are the best-selling music act of all time, with over 600 million albums sold (and I don’t think that includes singles, which is a bitter point of contention with Elvis fans). I had a hard time tracking down useful numbers, but I was able to find that Sgt Pepper, Abbey Road, and Beatles:1 (the compilation album with their record-holding 21 No1 singles) have each cleared 30 million.

So, I wasn’t offended, but I did come close to spraining an eyebrow seeing Cheap Trick used for a bit of rock-n-roll gatekeeping, over bands like the Beatles, the Doors, the Beach Boys, the Eagles, and that band that’s named after a blimp. These days, though, I mostly find new music through Little Steven’s Underground Garage, which, ironically, is the only place I’ve heard some of Cheap Trick’s latest releases (yes, they’re still recording, but even Classic Rock stations that play their hits don’t seem to care).

@Murdoch17 said:
" I also made a spacesuit in white for Puppycorn using the 1x3 brick face from 41775-6 as well to complement this Astrokitty."

I did the exact same.