Random part of the day: Wrecking Ball

So despite this only coming in Dark Bluish Gray, it is on Bricklink wanted lists 6 times in Black, 5 in Light Gray, and once each in Tan, Pink, and White. I feel like those last three colours would be for the recreation of a certain truck accessory.

@TheOtherMike said:
"This is one of those cases where you have to wonder if they meant to use it more, considering it was only in one set."

They could use it as an Easter Egg somehow.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Miyakan:
First rule of Want List Club is that somebody has to Want it in a color it does not and will not ever be produced in. And the only colors I’ve seen that accessory in are gold and silver."

Yup. I've never really looked at want list colours before. Maybe I will more going forward, and see what crazy wishes people want.
I've seen them in red, and pink. They're not particularly common here though.

@Miyakan said:
"So despite this only coming in Dark Bluish Gray, it is on Bricklink wanted lists 6 times in Black, 5 in Light Gray, and once each in Tan, Pink, and White. I feel like those last three colours would be for the recreation of a certain truck accessory."

Oh, you mean the ones that make it obvious what the truck is compensating for?

I still have this piece's set new in box. Had no idea it had a weight in it. The only weights I'd seen before that were the Tower Crane blocks and the boat ballasts.

@Miyakan:
Probably not as much as people might think, here, either. I see them once or twice a year at most.

Was not familiar with this piece, which doesn't happen too often. Interesting.

I think Huwbot is saying,
"60076 was how to do a City Demolition Site in 2015. 60391 is a bit pants by comparison"!

Its actually a fairly heavy piece of rubber I believe, unless there is a weight in it, could probably actually knock down a flimsy build LEGO wall of you swung it hard enough on the crane it was attached to.

I have one of the old weight bricks a 6x2 stud three bricks tall with a metal ball inside it. I’m not exactly sure what it was originally for though. A LEGO boat possibly or I’ve heard that LEGO used to use them in old train sets.

The old weight bricks were first used in the gray era 12V train sets. They were later also used in boat sets and I think their last use was in the tower crane 7905.

@Monopoly said:
" @sir_vasco said:
"Weird that they have a specialized piece for this, semi round objects seem easy enough to build."

This piece was weighted so it would be more effective/cause more destruction when swung than a standard brick-based build."

Like solid uranium coated in a thin layer of ABS? I wouldn't expect it to mean to really destroy LEGO. Although I might give it a try to take apart built sets. That often feels like more work than building a set.

And to build this piece from other pieces would probably just cause the wrecking ball to be wrecked.

On another personal note: finally something that relates to my nickname :-)

It looks like a deformed pear to me :)

@Miyakan said:
"So despite this only coming in Dark Bluish Gray, it is on Bricklink wanted lists 6 times in Black, 5 in Light Gray, and once each in Tan, Pink, and White. I feel like those last three colours would be for the recreation of a certain truck accessory."

I was thinking 'ice cream cone', but reading the comments I guess other people have something else in mind..

Minifig Cyrus approves.

Since Badger performed this song in The Masked Singer, it is only fitting that I comment here!

Huwbot selects a surprisingly high number of parts with only a single appearance. I wonder if that’s truly just random or if Huwbot’s selections are (somehow) enriched for rarity. Also surprising (to me) is how many instances of single-appearance parts exist in the first place.

@Ridgeheart said:
"Great, now I'm going to have that song stuck in my head all day.

Then again, in all fairness? Not her worst song, not the worst earworm. Ah, give in, just sing along like nobody's listening. And the way I sing, nobody's listening for very long if they can help it."

She sings in that video? I never noticed the audio...

@rslotb said:
" @Miyakan said:
"So despite this only coming in Dark Bluish Gray, it is on Bricklink wanted lists 6 times in Black, 5 in Light Gray, and once each in Tan, Pink, and White. I feel like those last three colours would be for the recreation of a certain truck accessory."

I was thinking 'ice cream cone', but reading the comments I guess other people have something else in mind.. "

“Nice truck, but what it really needs is an ice cream cone.”

@Ridgeheart:
The thing is, she actually sounds like she’s a good singer…if only someone would put a decent song in front of her.

Wonder how tough It'd be to striatal Homer's minifig off the side of this...or Wile E Coyote...:)

Oops: "striatal"=straddle...apparently I can't spell today:)