New Technic pin?

[Richard Dower]

Is this new?....not seen it before?

http://www.bricklink....asp?P=40345pin

[Simarilius]

Pretty sure its the pin in these:

which isnt meant to come out. (if you search bricklink for 40345 you'll see set and date info)

[Zerobricks]

Wait what? All pins are suppose to go out... That is very interesting, where did you find it?

[Paul Boratko]

It's like a super pin...

[DrJB]

Correct, that pin came pre-assembled in several lego parts, especially the technic frames and some train models. That pin is very difficult to take out, but ultimately TLG realized they can do without it and introduced the friction pin ... It also enables them to advertise a higher number of part counts on their sets ... but wait ... I'm being sarcastic here.

Edited November 8, 2014 by DrJB

[vliet]

I have some of those frames in red and the pin doesn't come out without excessive force.

Edited November 11, 2014 by vliet

[1974]

Actually, it's not a part as such. It was never released by TLG, it was allways part of another brick

Look here :

http://www.eurobrick...75#entry2049572

Correct, that pin came pre-assembled in several lego parts, especially the technic frames and some train models. That pin is very difficult to take out, but ultimately TLG realized they can do without it and introduced the friction pin ... It also enables them to advertise a higher number of part counts on their sets ... but wait ... I'm being sarcastic here.

Not quite right .. the friction pin was introduced many years before that useless part

For some reason TLG thought that kids of the 00's was considerably dumber than kids of the 70's or even the 80's

Turned out not to be so. Actually some of the most succesfull companies today have CEOs that was born when pins was just (old) grey .. just look at the current LEGO boss

Cheers,

Ole

Edited November 8, 2014 by 1974