Comments on: LEGO changes magnet designs [News]

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:54:54 +0000

But can these new magnets swivel up and down like the old ones? Trains changing grade might lever waggons apart a little, which reduces thw weight (and length) or trains…

By: Will

Will — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:04:13 +0000

How wrong would it be to mod this brick and remove the magnet. Oh, and LEGO, pleeeease give us a TECHNIC version of this new “Wonder magnet”

And no, Darwin needs no help while lawyers live

By: Ramone

Ramone — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:08:11 +0000

This doesn’t surprise me as the bricks are well known for being swallowed/passed by small kids. What gets me is that there are brick candies out–actually PROMOTING the idea of eating a lego.

Does Darwin really need the extra help?

By: David

David — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:54:40 +0000

Mclovin, 3.5 words… “You’re a Jackass”.

By: Capn Pike

Capn Pike — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:53:51 +0000

OMG No! Don’t change our fridge magnets!
Wait…sorry go ahead. I can live without fridge magnets.

By: Riley Hunter

Riley Hunter — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:14:03 +0000

I wonder if it will take until August until these new buffers are available through Lego Factory and Pick a Brick. You can use them in Digital Designer but you currently have to delete them from the model so you can order it from Lego.

By: Mclovin

Mclovin — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:21:13 +0000

One word “GAY”

By: David

David — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:07:32 +0000

Who over three eats LEGOs?

And how do you change the minifigure magnet sets? You can’t. So stupid.

By: Tim David

Tim David — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:09:49 +0000

MrShowerr - The magnet is permanently enclosed in a plastic part (but free to rotate inside it to give correct polarity). This plastic part is permanently attached to the buffer beam part, making the whole unit too big to swallow. However this permanent attachment means that you can’t use the magnet and holder without the buffer beam to make trains with no buffers (or anything else with no buffers)

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:30:46 +0000

So this is the end for the magnets like those used to hold the plates together in the star destroyer as well?

Odd to see Lego addressing problems with children swallowing small parts. I wonder if this is the one part that has lead in it.