I've been told that Lego is obviously geeky and sometimes I like to play at
geek. So consider the following, you buy some Lego at a yard sale and you
come across a piece which looks like this . My first thought was that that was a rather
silly and specialized piece. Then I realized that clearly it was specially
created to make a horseshoe crab (limulus):
.
Here is a view from below and an expanded view in case you would like to
make one: ,
. The grey pieces are the rarer shade of
dark grey. This is simply because it is what colour that original special
piece happened to be. The brown and black pieces were used because I didn't
have the right pieces in dark grey; this also explains why one of the pieces
has some stuff printed on it, barnacles we'll say. Also as pictured there are
no hidden structural pieces, though you could profitably put some under the
rightmost piece on the top. As is typical the small images above are links to
larger ones.