Nice Parts Usage! Week Eight: Jungle Cruise

LordofLego

Good morning, and welcome to Nice Parts Usage!, the new game in the forum. In this game, I will pick out a brick and you will come up with clever new ways to use it or show ways you have used it before. Unfortunately, I cannot provide prizes at this time, but you may donate a polybag or something to the winner. You will have two weeks this time around in a very special episode of Nice Parts Usage!

I will now point out some of my favorite plants.... That one... that one... Aaaaand that one. Oh, and this one:

4114348: Bamboo Leaves 3X3

These are available in two colors and have been in 173 sets. They were first produced in 1998. I want to see what you can make, so get to it! This has been...

Nice Parts Usage!




p.s. Watch out for Ginger... She snaps.

Fauch

oh yes, from the ninja line. wow, the second color is dark bley, didn't expect that.

jesirose

I have a bunch of these, so I want to try - are we supposed to make a jungle theme build or just something using the part?

Fauch

LordofLego

jesirose said:

I have a bunch of these, so I want to try - are we supposed to make a jungle theme build or just something using the part?

Well, it would be very easy to do a jungle build, but I don't care as long as you use the part.

dannyrww

Might have an idea, but since school started this week I'm a little busy with all the crazy teacher stuff.

RidzDesign

We just grabbed a whole bunch of these as they were on the PAB wall... time to get to work

vitreolum

Well this is going to be interesting, I admit to having no clue what could this be used for in green.

klatu003

^says the master of greebled garden scenes - lol.

Paperballpark

Well, I don't know if this counts or not, but I made this a couple of years ago:

LordofLego

@Paperballpark Yes, that will work. It doesn't have to be a non-plant. That just wins you brownie points.

chuxtoybox

I promised I would enter this contest. Just finished about half an hour ago.







I took a few photos so you can see him a bit better. :)

rdflego

LordofLego

I'll write the next one tonight.

plasmodium

@chuxtoybox, how fragile are his legs?! Looks really cool, though!

chuxtoybox

plasmodium said:

@chuxtoybox, how fragile are his legs?! Looks really cool, though!

They are  100% supporting him in these pictures but they are very fragile. Actually, ALL of him is very fragile! :)
   If anybody tells you those little plant pieces are easy to work with they're lying. They kept falling off. Then his arm would fall off when I tried to put one back. At one point he "exploded".
   As frustrating as that was it allowed me to build him better the second time. You can't get the full LEGO building experience building in a computer program. In the physical world there is a thing called GRAVITY. :)

Dedgecko

chuxtoybox said:

plasmodium said:

@chuxtoybox, how fragile are his legs?! Looks really cool, though!

They are  100% supporting him in these pictures but they are very fragile. Actually, ALL of him is very fragile! :)
   If anybody tells you those little plant pieces are easy to work with they're lying. They kept falling off. Then his arm would fall off when I tried to put one back. At one point he "exploded".
   As frustrating as that was it allowed me to build him better the second time. You can't get the full LEGO building experience building in a computer program. In the physical world there is a thing called GRAVITY. :)

...and small children with dirty hands!

chuxtoybox

Er, isn't it time for a new one of these yet? :)

LordofLego

chuxtoybox said:

Er, isn't it time for a new one of these yet? :)

I forgot last Sunday and it was Friday by the time I realized it, so by then it wasn't worth it. I can't think of a really good piece to make up for missing a week. Any ideas?

Coolguy5000

How about  this http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3900&idColor=1

chuxtoybox

scoiltreasa said:

How about  this http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3900&idColor=1

 A piece doesn't have to be obscure to be challenging to build with.

 Even though it's still a small piece, someone suggested the mug in another thread.

LordofLego

chuxtoybox said:

scoiltreasa said:

How about  this http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3900&idColor=1

 A piece doesn't have to be obscure to be challenging to build with.

 Even though it's still a small piece, someone suggested the mug in another thread.

Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. I'll do that, then.

dannyrww

Arghhh...didn't do a build this week because I was busy with the start of the school year here...oh well.

LordofLego

dannyrww said:

Arghhh...didn't do a build this week because I was busy with the start of the school year here...oh well.

I ran out of time to do this week's challenge, but I WILL do it tomorrow morning.