Articles about specialised LEGO® parts

Recently we published a great article by Victor Pruvost examining the highly specialised new LEGO® piece, the 'arcade pod'. However, many of you were soon frustrated as Google had some dumb bug resulting in all the images disappearing. I've now replaced them all, so check it out if you missed it:

READ: LEGO NINJAGO Arcade Pods: Victor Pruvost creates a Rover and Computer

Maybe you did see it already? So here's another couple of suggestions from the archives of New Elementary...
Back in 2014 I got cross with people moaning that The LEGO Group started introducing "specialised parts that you can only use for one thing"... so I researched the BrickLink catalogue to unearth specialised parts from the 1970s, '60s, '50s... arguably even 1949!

READ: When LEGO was never "just bricks"

Okay this one is only from the 'archive' of last week! But if you missed out seeing what Jonas Kramm did with the parts from the new LEGO Trolls World Tour sets, you really need to check this out.

READ: See the amazing creation Jonas designed using only LEGO Trolls sets

And then there was that time in 2018 when Elspeth started using a bit that is so specialised, it is not even used in the LEGO sets it comes in!

READ: Harry Potter and the Spurious Sprue

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