Random part of the day: Flat Tile 1X3
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random part is 63864, 'Flat Tile 1X3', which is a System part, category Plates.
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Yep nothin’ worse than inflated tiles.
These + the corner tiles have been game changers. Bless the LEGO gods.
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!
@Sandinista said:
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!"
What light through yonder window plates?
@Sandinista:
I’ve never seen red winds. Usually they’re colored black. There’s a red dragon, though.
@Sandinista: Arise, fair sun, and slay the envious 1x2 tile.
@Sandinista:
Romeo, doff thy name,
And, for thy name, which is no part of three,
Take all myself.
The comment section for part of the day is always so weird...
“Piece? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Megabloks.”
Crazy to think this part has existed for 12 years now. Almost 13.
At least, my first encounter with it was in the Atlantis wave.
Since then we've had so many 'game changing' parts that the building system changed severely with sets being full of small, oddly shaped (and often oddly colored) parts and multiple brackets in even the smallest sets. Builds are more like puzzles with each part nestling into the other than ever before. Builds have shrunk, and part counts inflated. 1x1 sized parts have exploded in variety and representation of overall parts in a set.
Personally I gravitate more to the pre-2014 builds, but that's just me. I often rebuild models because I have only a tiny amount of display space and store everything unbuilt. Post-2014 sets take a lot longer to build and are sometimes very tiring. Probably also due to the huge instruction booklets with one part per page.
I wonder if anyone knew we would get here in 2010. And I wonder what Lego will be like in 2032. Do I want to know?
@Binnekamp The last thing I would have thought of when I came across this tile is “hey, this is the perfect piece to make a double jumper plate a reality “ and yet here we are.
SNOT geometry is pretty much covered now, but I think off-stud building angles are starting to creep in. By 2032 we’ll be looking at today’s sets and be shocked how square they are.
@Kynareth said:
"SNOT geometry is pretty much covered now"
We still haven't gotten a 1x1 version of 99206 Plate, Modified 2 x 2 x 2/3 with 2 Studs on Side. It remains the most gaping hole in the SNOT toolkit.
@MeisterDad said:
"Yep nothin’ worse than inflated tiles."
But is the tile itself inflated (i.e. an elongated 1x2) or is this the result of inflation (your $0.10 per piece gets you a 1x3 instead of a 1x4)?