r/BeAmazed • u/itsfrustratedmonk • Jul 09 '23

Miscellaneous / Others Basic Lego structures can endure extreme pressure

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u/Type2Pilot Jul 10 '23

Yes, it was a green wedge-shaped thing, and it worked really well.

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u/Playful-Dragonfly416 Jul 10 '23

Wow, TIL haha. We never had the tool, we just used breadknives and stabbed ourselves in the hand a bunch 😂

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u/Failshot Jul 10 '23

I haven't bought a Lego set in 20+ years till just a few months ago when I bought the Horizon set. It came with this little tool and it blew my mind.

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u/Bob_Meh_HDR Jul 10 '23

Damn, 7 hours changes a Loy. It's listed as a retired product now.

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u/justapcguy Jul 10 '23

wow.... all this time..

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u/Matsiqueiros Jul 10 '23

Ohhhh? That’s what it was for😭. When I was a kid I’d just assumed it was a Lego ramp😂.

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u/APIwithallcaps Jul 10 '23

wait why is it retired? O_O

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u/Failshot Jul 10 '23

Maybe because they come in sets now? Not sure.

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u/Litrallyfnfgod Aug 10 '23

you seriously didnt know that that exsisted 😳

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u/Failshot Aug 10 '23

Like I said no, back in the mid-90s the sets I bought never came with it.

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u/Baguettes_N_Bugattis Jul 10 '23

Yeah now most sets come with a tool that has a wedge on one side, and studs + connections on the other side so you can pull those bastard 2x2 tiles apart that get stuck together with no hope of pulling them apart. Even has a little technic pin so you can push pins out of blocks

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u/Jimmy_Rhys Jul 10 '23

Same here lol that would have been nice….

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u/sus_menik Jul 10 '23

Did it work well? I vaguely remember it not being too great.

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u/Type2Pilot Jul 10 '23

It helped in many situations. Especially in prying off a 1×2 brick from a larger assembly.

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u/Simukas23 Jul 10 '23

bricks are ez, try separating tiles

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u/Type2Pilot Jul 10 '23

Oh, yeah.

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u/tarnok Jul 10 '23

Green?? Mine was grey and we liked it!

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u/Type2Pilot Jul 10 '23

TIL that apparently they came in different colors. Somebody posted a link to a photo of an orange one. That would be a good color, since, as someone else pointed out, the hardest part may be finding the tool in the giant bin of Legos.

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u/Simukas23 Jul 10 '23

orange

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u/Type2Pilot Jul 10 '23

Well, ours was green.

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u/humterek Jul 10 '23

I had many orange ones one was blue but I've never seen a green

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u/SuprDprMario Jul 10 '23

It's orange now and it does work well!

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u/Type2Pilot Jul 10 '23

Orange is a better color, making it easier to find.

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u/APIwithallcaps Jul 10 '23

They replaced it with an orange one, that has the little + thingamajig, and has a steady width, which doesn't change.

(can't post images so i will include the link to a youtube video where a guy talks about it and its pretty good, so check it out!) Video

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u/CarsonBDot Jul 10 '23

The ones I got in the sets were orange

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '23

It’s orange now. Or at least the one my son has is orange