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How can my daughter turn her horse into a unicorn?
A 1x1 cone with an inverted positioned screwdriver just might work here.
So, I'm saying just might based off the the halved cast line of Peggy's head.
The base peg of the horn/drill-bit would be too ...
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What are black sausage pieces used for in Crocodile Locomotive set 10277?
These are placed next to the magnets at the front and the back of the train. See step 142 in the instructions.
4 are needed and there is 1 spare.
BrickInstructions shows it here:
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How To Make a Small Security Camera?
Added a Ver.2.Oh belowww...
Here's the LDD file if you want it.
Here's the file for 2nd helpings. Eat up!
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How To Make a Small Security Camera?
I've come up with five different ways to make a micro security camera that look like your reference image.
I'll run through the different methods in the image above from left to right 1 through 5.
Far ...
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6x6x6 cube with smooth plates on bottom?
While there could be various approaches building studless the easiest one would be with Tile, Modified 2 x 2 Inverted. These modified tiles have studs on one side, which fit under bricks and plates, ...
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What can this curved brick with square holes be used for?
The part is Window Round 3 x 3 x 2 (73878).
It was a new mold for 2021, and one of its first uses was as windows on Andrea's House (41449).
This piece can be used on buildings anywhere you'd like a ...
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How can my daughter turn her horse into a unicorn?
If the problem is that the base of the horn is too big to fit in the hole on the chanfron you have to make the former smaller or the latter bigger. Careful work with a file/scalpel, if you're good at ...
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How can my daughter turn her horse into a unicorn?
A possibility might be using Horse Battle Helmet (unicorn) parts 89524 or 13745:
However I'm unsure if those would fit. The head geometry of the horse part in question (93083c01pb08) seems to be ...
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What are these pieces for?
According to the official description, these are for customizing the completed build:
This LEGO Batman toy playset includes 2 minifigures and children can customize their builds, minifigures and ...
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Identifying Parts Used For The Escape Hatch of Sariel's Tiger XL Model
🎶 First three from what we can see...🎶
Part: 4735 Bar 1 x 3 with Clip and Stud Receptacle (Robot Arm).
Part 2958 Technic, Disk 3 x 3.
Part: 75c03 Hose, Rigid 3mm D. 3L / 2.4cm.
🎶Last two ...
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What Lego part(s) would hurt the most to step on?
I think this one would be in the top 5:
Tile, Modified 2 x 2 with Pin (part 2460)
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6x6x6 cube with smooth plates on bottom?
As mentioned in another answer, there are dedicated pieces for this now.
But... 6x6x6 cube is plenty big enough to have a stud-reversing construction inside, then the bottom can be a simple 6x6 plate ...
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Compatibility of sports ramps
I've put those two parts side by side in LeoCAD, and it's quite obvious they have different shapes:
A side view illustrates the difference even more clearly:
They will somewhat align if one of the ...
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Brick-built sails for a pirate ship
Great question. It sounds like you are building a fairly large ship. If the scale is large enough, brick-built sails can look quite nice. You can add shape, contour, and texture using various building ...
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Minimal mine track
I think you want to consider using the 4-stud-wide "rollercoaster" tracks, part numbers 25059, 25061 and 26022.
Here's how those to parts look like in set 60228:
The straight track are 8 or ...
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What Lego part(s) would hurt the most to step on?
I nominate this little bugger:
Got it in a bulk lot, and oh boy is it painful to walk on. it rests flat on the ground thanks to the wings, and the crest is a nice touch for delicate underfoot.
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Why doesn’t part 30099 fit into the System?
This picture might explain the reason:
As you can see, arches form a nice circle to fit round modified plate. All fits well, except the very bottom. Making the bottom edge fit the plate/tile nicely ...
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What's the purpose of the decoration on the BrickHeadz piece?
According to LEGO, it's the BrickHeadz icon with the series number.
He also stands on a buildable baseplate with series number and BrickHeadz icon for easy display -- Batman Brickheadz LEGO Shop ...
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2x2 macaroni pieces
Yes it fits as well as you'd expect. same as any adjacent brick, so there's not much friction if you want to slide it up and down like a piston.
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Why was the original brick separator changed?
My guess would be that they wanted to include one in more sets; so they made a smaller (cheaper) version and took the opportunity to add functionalities, such as the technic axle remover or the flat ...
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What Lego part(s) would hurt the most to step on?
This assembly of pieces will not tickle, so let's dive in:
First, the teeth are placed in reverse of each other so the foot and
all that weight is forced to rock on the two little pointed tips.
...
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What Lego part(s) would hurt the most to step on?
The 1x1 brick is both small enough to mean that you get edges no matter which way up it is, and has all the sharp edges and corners of the 2x2 brick, just packed into a smaller, more evil form.
That ...
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How can my daughter turn her horse into a unicorn?
Yes, you can drill it. Slowly, by hand. You want to end up with a 1/8 inch bit, but I found it easier to step up using a couple of smaller bits to get there. The bit doesn’t need to go in very far ...
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Why doesn’t part 30099 fit into the System?
I would assume that this is to do with stability and flexibility of the element, combined with the rectangular nature of the system.
There are a number of uses of the part where it's not used to ...
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Feathered Headdress from the Islander, female figure
Sometimes ignoring a problem yields its own solution - like the Cabaret Singer.
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What is the use of a single ultrasonic signal?
I'm not an EV3 expert, but my understanding is that continuous mode stores results into a buffer that can be read nearly instantly. Single mode will need to wait to hear a ping back before reporting ...
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Why doesn’t part 30099 fit into the System?
Finding a piece that completes a flawless circle can't be done with this element's current design, but...
...If we stick only with Part #2339, we can build an outside frame that changes the direction ...
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Minimal mine track
There have already been a few older sets containing pre-made mine carts or similar constructions with tracks besides the currently used style mentioned by IvanSanchez, take a look at how they were ...
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What’s this gold helmet piece and is it rare?
That looks like a Minifigure, Headgear Helmet Gladiator
I wouldn't call that piece rare.
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Identifying Parts Used For The Escape Hatch of Sariel's Tiger XL Model
This is actually made of three parts as far as I can tell.
Technic Disk 3 x 3 (2723)
Bar 1 x 3 [Clip / Anti-Stud] (4735)
A cut piece of Hose, Rigid 3mm aka Flex System tubing
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