Random part of the day: Hull 20X40X7 Assembled

Hmm.. Boat hulls.

Man these floating boat hulls are colossal.

@KotZ said:
"Does anyone actually like this piece? I don't get the hull-abaloo about it."

When I was younger (and still now, a bit) this was the dream. The boats you could build with this- the sheer POWER of this peice was legendary.

If you had 2 hull pieces you could build a hull entire boat!

Don’t have this one :(

What the hull?

Let’s just hope the submarine this boat launched wasn’t the Titan…

Madness!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarioWare_D.I.Y.

depending on your point of view, this is either appropriate or ironic.

It's been put on hold for now, but I've had an idea in mind to use preformed hulls like these (and other shapes) as a base to build fun, campy... *ahem* spaceships. I feel they'd be good in both roughly minifig-scale, as well as in functionally microscale. i.e. Becoming either a personal craft, akin to an old tugboat or the like in size; or a massive vessel, where something like a 1x1 transparent plate would be representative of a window.

Silly, I know, but definitely fun.

We're going to need a BIGGER boat.

@StyleCounselor said:
"We're going to need a BIGGER boat."

We're going to need a bigger SHARK.

Its TOO BIG. i despise we now get huge 2 pieces boats.

Seeing this part, makes me kick myself that I never got 60266: Ocean Exploration Ship...which had TWO of these, and one of the COOOOOLEST design ideas connecting them at 'the forks', making a HUUUUUGE SHIP....with a submersible...and divers that remind me of "Cobra" Frogmen (not "Eels") from "G.I. Joe" (not that that's a bad thing:)).

I still think this is the ideal hull for an rc boat. You could put battery box and reciever in the hole, a steamboat-esce shovelwheel in the cutout, and run technic axles along the pontoons to attach two rudders at the back.

Can you really call it “assembled” if it’s just one piece?

@TheOtherMike said:
" @KotZ : I don't have any, but it looks like a hull of a piece to me.
"

You won’t get any either- it’s unobtainab-hull.

@brick_r said:
"Seeing this part, makes me kick myself that I never got 60266: Ocean Exploration Ship...which had TWO of these, and one of the COOOOOLEST design ideas connecting them at 'the forks', making a HUUUUUGE SHIP....with a submersible...and divers that remind me of "Cobra" Frogmen (not "Eels") from "G.I. Joe" (not that that's a bad thing:))."

1 That is part https://brickset.com/sets/containing-part-6365548 I can't see how they are different.
2 60368 demands you're money

I actually own 2 of these, one from the original 2015 dive boat set and one I brought on bricklink, after I realised I could put both back to back and build a moonpool ship. This was way before the 60266 ocean explorer ship was rumoured, so I’m pretty proud of myself for coming up with that.

Compared to the usual 12 or 14 wide boat hulls this is very wide at 20 allowing a more detailed crew and bridge build. The empty space also allows some below deck space as in the new 60368: Arctic Explorer Ship.

@spritetoggle: See my comment on the RPotD article: https://brickset.com/article/84259/random-part-of-the-day-hull-12x40x5-assembled

@Brickalili said:
"Can you really call it “assembled” if it’s just one piece? "

Technically the blue and the grey part are separately moulded and then joined in the factory (clips/screws I can't tell from the picture). That's why the official name calls it "Assembled" as "Hull 20x40x7" probably is the name of one of it's components.

It's basically the same as a minifig torso or some larger creature part, internally all those would be classified as "Assembled".

@Brickalili said:
"Can you really call it “assembled” if it’s just one piece? "

I see a dark-blue hull that’s attached to a light-bley deck. I don’t know precisely what the assembly process was, but I’m pretty sure they’re either glued or welded together to create an airtight seal, lest the hull fill up with water if you submerge it.

@watcher21:
20033 has a dark-bley top, and 80698 has a light-bley top.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili said:
"Can you really call it “assembled” if it’s just one piece? "

I see a dark-blue hull that’s attached to a light-bley deck. I don’t know precisely what the assembly process was, but I’m pretty sure they’re either glued or welded together to create an airtight seal, lest the hull fill up with water if you submerge it.

@watcher21 :
20033 has a dark-bley top, and 80698 has a light-bley top."

They’re actually two pieces that easily snap apart. The floating hull and the studded deck surface are two separate elements (easier to drain and clean the water that gets in there). But for obvious reasons the two pieces really don’t make sense individually so it’s one of those things on Bricklink mostly sold as a single unit that itself consists of two pieces. Similar to a dinosaur which is shipped by TLG as the main animal plus the detachable hinged jaw. You can look at the individual pieces but for convenience those are collected into a single assembled “super” piece.

I think this is the case for most floating boat platforms like the smaller motor boats and other city patrol style boats. Only the rafts are a single piece I believe.

It’s really weird that they have a whole new part number for just changing the color of the deck top as you say when the different colored hull is just a different element number. I’m guessing they made a slightly different mold for one of the pieces?

Interestingly, the Brickset tag on this piece is wrong based on what you, correctly, pointed out. It says element 6117617 (the hull in Earth Blue shown here) is “SAME DESIGN AND COLOUR AS 6310909” which is the Earth Blue hull but with LBG surface.

So if anything it seems part 20033 is the same as 80698, but the surface color difference actually means the elements themselves are still distinct.

@Huw - minor issue, but worth updating in the db?

@MrKoshka:
If it ships pre-assembled, then the five-digit number should refer to the assembly, not the individual molds. If you pop one apart, there may be 4-5 digit numbers molded into each half (possibly consecutive, but not guaranteed) that refer to the molds. I see now that BL does indicate this is an assembly rather than a part, and the numbers for the components are 18912 (deck) and 18913 (hull).

6310909 doesn’t even show up in the system. The other blue hull is element 6365548, which has no note. It’s possible that the LEGO database had 6310909 for the first dark-bley deck, then issued 6365548 for the second one because enough time had passed for the first EID to be retired. If that happened, they may have purged the old EID and rolled every reference into the new one, so anyone seeking a replacement hull would get the current version. But that note should probably still be deleted, since the link provided is broken.

I'm definitely going to have to get 60368 when it comes out in a month or two.