RE: Introducing my LEGO Parts Guide, which is powered by images exported from LDraw.
2024-10-21, 14:27
2024-10-21, 14:27
(2024-10-21, 12:52)Gerald Lasser Wrote: But those are not Q-Parts. Q-Parts are standard parts with colours only available for the Legoland model builders
In an ideal world, websites like BrickLink or Rebrickable (which show which colors a given part comes in) would have a database of known non-production q-element colors. That said, I don't think this would be very useful, nor easy to maintain, since we would be trying to maintain a database of what basically amounts to stolen LEGO parts.
P.S. I have heard two slightly different definitions of q-parts... anyone know which is correct?
- Any part in a non-production color available to LEGOLAND model builders is a q-part or q-element.
- Q-parts/elements are those parts which are produced in a full range of colors for LEGOLAND - so a Q-Part is a specific part shape that the company has decided is useful enough to provide to model shops in all colors. (If this is the right definition, I would LOVE to see a list of which part shapes are defined as Q-Parts, because it is a signal that TLG sees the part as crucial to general-purpose model building.)
---Tom