Random part of the day: Arrow 8M For Spring Shooter
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Today's random part is 15303, 'Arrow 8M For Spring Shooter', which is a System part, category Functional Elements.
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I have so many of these in so many colors, all sharing the same ziploc baggie.
Something of a "hated" element I would say. Would love to see this one evaluated by New Elementary or as a seed element in an NPU content.
I have these in blue from the Jyn Erso constraction fig. The 1x4 launcher has pretty good range for being so small.
I've cut a couple of these up just because I have so many (and sets come with EXTRAS!) and so little use for them--not that the resulting bars have had great utility, but more than the originals.
This and it's associated launcher are very good- compact and easy to trigger, plus being reversible they don't need some unusual shaping to key in which is the right way. We may not always want them on a model, but it's a good design Lego came up with for a new action element.
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That’s all I’ve done with these. Yeah, Green Lantern is shooting Starro with one.
^ I agree, I love these. Easy to fire, harder to lose (than 1x1 plates), decent range. Everything you could want in a shooter. No contest vs. the useless flick-fire. Don't pack quite the punch as the big hard-rubber bolts, but much more compact.
It's nice of Lego to include an extra of these even though they're so big.
PEW!
I shot one of this (the CW AAT) at girlfriend. It was lost forever on the couch, never found.
“Arrow”
Sure, LEGO
Most bizarre use of this ever was as the Sentinel's laser beam in 76022.The should have just done like Buzz's laser beam in 76831, that piece was available at the time and looks more like a laser beam, anyway.
Much better than the stud-shooters lol.
Perhaps we should nickname this piece “the Roy Harper”
Since returning to the hobby in 2018 the first set I got with spring-loaded shooters was 70831, oddly enough.
Very important piece. I keep them in their sets' zip bags to keep the spring shooter bricks in best condition.
@Somnium said:
"I shot one of this (the CW AAT) at girlfriend. It was lost forever on the couch, never found."
The piece or the girlfriend?
@Somnium said:
"I shot one of this (the CW AAT) at girlfriend. It was lost forever on the couch, never found."
Yes, all too often relationships end with a little misguided fun. Women rarely see the fun in corneal scratches.
So sad.... or, were you referring to the missle? ;)
Talking about losing this piece reminds me of the one I lost. I was playing with one of the constraction Stormtroopers (don't remember which one), and accidentally shot it off. My apartment was small and fairly cluttered, so I couldn't find it and just gave it up as lost and replaced it with the spare. I later found it outside the side door, which it had shot in the general direction of, but I'm pretty sure it was closed at the time, and even if the door was open, the screen door wasn't. No idea how it gout out there.
@TheOtherMike:
In terms of the Baby Sentinal (because honestly, a real Sentinal should be a set unto itself, like TLBM’s Clayface), I think this works better as a pulse of energy with a trailing effect. The whip antenna was available at the time, but not in trans-red. It works better as a sustained beam. I’ve actually used them in pairs to represent Superman’s and Supergirl’s heat vision. You have to invert them to make them look good, with the bases mounted on their targets, and the ball tips pinched together and pressed against their eyes.
Looking at the part page, I was baffled for several minutes to see I apparently owned two of these, but couldn't remember a single set I had that had them in, most of my modern sets being either too small or not the kind of model that would have shooters. It took far longer than it should have for me to remember that I picked up a battered-but-still-sealed 75119 for reeeeeeally cheap from a charity shop a few months ago, which was where they'd come from.
Long missile pieces like this are something I associate more with Hasbro's Star Wars action figure range, which often used them as a gimmick when I was a kid, than with Lego... though these seem to work pretty well, and have the advantage over other Lego shooters of the launcher being pretty unobtrusive, which is always a plus.