Random part of the day: Design Plate 6X6X2/3
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random part is 3160, 'Design Plate 6X6X2/3', which is a System part, category Decoration Elements.
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Alright, who dropped today's RPotD?
Well that's a bit cold, Huwbot.
I swear...If ya' squint, you can make out the "Fortress of Solitude" on there...:)
What set is this from?
@Brickchap said:
"What set is this from?"
Showed up in two Mario sets, both representing cracked ice surfaces.
https://brickset.com/sets/containing-part-6414927
@Brickchap said:
"What set is this from?"
A couple of the latest Mario sets introduced this section. 71415 & 71417
In other colors, I think this piece could prove quite versatile as a texture element.
I actually didn't realize this was a huge 6x6 tile. At first, I thought it was a small 2x2.
Were there ever any Mario Kart sets, this would make an for excellent piece in the Vanilla Lake courses.
I'm hopeful for a long and interesting future for this part. I can see it in light grey already, HULK SMASH and all that
"If you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a million tear-stained eyes
Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice
Appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind
With your fear flowing out behind you
As you claw the thin ice."
- Pink Floyd "The Thin Ice" from the album "The Wall"
I haven't gotten many of the Mario sets from this year, but I hope to get my hands on this part some day!
I haven't gotten many of the Mario sets from this year, but I hope to get my hands on this part some day!
@Murdoch17 said:
""If you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a million tear-stained eyes
Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice
Appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind
With your fear flowing out behind you
As you claw the thin ice."
- Pink Floyd "The Thin Ice" from the album "The Wall""
Funny; yesterday's RSOTD and I was thinking 'shine on you crazy demon'.
Whenever the daily random part is a crazy weird part I don't understand, it always turns out to be Mario
@lotographia:
You might do better with coin flips, but not by a huge margin.
@Brickchap said:
"What set is this from?"
A couple Super Mario snow sets released this year!
What I find strange is that a part as new and obscure as this one has such a low parts ID number. By that number I would have thought it's some standard brick or plate. The decades old 1x8 plate for example has the ID 3460.
Sometimes it feels ike we get modern parts far too quickly. It might just be a quirk of the Brickset parts inventories being so reliant on Lego's current ones.
Well that’s trippy to look at; is it a fixed pattern or is there some geometry trick going on here that makes it look weird in the example picture?
@Murdoch17 said:
""If you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a million tear-stained eyes
Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice
Appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind
With your fear flowing out behind you
As you claw the thin ice."
- Pink Floyd "The Thin Ice" from the album "The Wall""
Skating away
Skating away
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
-Jethro Tull
@AustinPowers:
Set numbers are grouped in sequence, so as they ran out of usable clusters, they were forced to switch from 4-digit to 5-digit numbers, and they abandoned any unused 3-digit or 4-digit numbers. Part numbers have no such restrictions, and someone seems to have figured that out, and is determined to fill in the gaps. We’ve seen a lot of 4-digit design numbers pop up in recent years, and I don’t expect it to stop until they’re all used up.
Part of the reason this even happened is they were not automatically assigned sequentially, so there are probably some vanity numbers in there (birthdates, street addresses, etc.), which caused some of these numbers to be skipped. Other designers probably just looked at the highest assigned number at any given point, and took the next in line without checking if there were lower numbers yet to be assigned.