Random part of the day: Flat Tile 2X2, Round, No. 1224
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random part is 83056, 'Flat Tile 2X2, Round, No. 1224', which is a System part, category Plates, Special Circles And Angles.
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Mathematically elegant: 2x2 round and no. 1224.
Without seeing the underside (or, you know, by refusing to click on the links to see what set this comes in), I have no idea what variant this is.
This piece actually goes back quite a way--off the top of my head, it goes at least back to the dawn of the Forestmen in 1987, since they were using it for target practice. It's quite elegant, really: a staple of recent sets as much as old sets. I tend to think of it first in its four-square use in 6494 Mystic Mountain Time Lab: two of them inside those hollowed-out 4x4x2 cones.
Or as a pizza. Gotta love a yellow, 90s LEGO pizza.
This is a Prime piece.
The real question is, are the next two numbers in the sequence 2, 4; 2, 6; 4, 4; 8, 32, or something completely different?
@Formendacil:
5-digit design number makes me lean towards the O-bottom.
Yup, silver ink version only used on Optimus Prime’s legs.
Are tiles ever anything other than flat?
@EvilTwin:
Roof tiles, aka slope bricks.
Wow, only 10,000 of these parts? I feel like they're more common for some reason.
@Zoniax said:
"Wow, only 10,000 of these parts? I feel like they're more common for some reason. "
That's because this piece only refers to the silver ink variant, and it only comes in 10302
@Clutch_P said:
" @Zoniax said:
"Wow, only 10,000 of these parts? I feel like they're more common for some reason. "
That's because this piece only refers to the silver ink variant, and it only comes in 10302"
Well that makes a lot more sense.
@Clutch_P:
And ownership of that set accounts for 9332 of these. Somewhere, there are 171 Optimus Primes who collectively pissed off Tonya Harding.
@NatureBricks:
41250?
@Formendacil said:
"Without seeing the underside (or, you know, by refusing to click on the links to see what set this comes in), I have no idea what variant this is.
This piece actually goes back quite a way--off the top of my head, it goes at least back to the dawn of the Forestmen in 1987, since they were using it for target practice. It's quite elegant, really: a staple of recent sets as much as old sets. I tend to think of it first in its four-square use in 6494 Mystic Mountain Time Lab: two of them inside those hollowed-out 4x4x2 cones.
Or as a pizza. Gotta love a yellow, 90s LEGO pizza."
Another classic usage: The blue one in the water well in 6090-1 Royal Knights Castle.
Discus? Discuss!
Shiny.
@PurpleDave: Don't start with that voodoo.
@rahlmaclaren said:
"Another classic usage: The blue one in the water well in 6090-1 Royal Knights Castle."
Oh! Oh, yes indeed!
With the revelation that this is the Optimus Prime subvariant, I see that I do not actually own it. It does seem like a nice and useful colour.