Building Recognition: Brick-Built Trophies and Tokens of Appreciation

[00:00:00] This is the Battlegorilla LEGO Podcast episode 38, building recognition, brick built trophies and tokens of appreciation.

[00:00:10] The secret title of today's episode is A full accolades. Hey look there's an elephant in the room. Hello Mr. Elephant.

[00:00:21] What's that? You'd like me to talk about the podcast having missed a couple of weeks recently.

[00:00:30] And you'd like some peanuts. Well, I don't have any peanuts for you.

[00:00:41] Whoa, but I can certainly talk about that other thing if you'd like. Okay. This is episode number 38 of the podcast.

[00:00:52] According to my calendar, it's supposed to be episode number 41. But on February 20th, April 9th, April 30th and May 7th.

[00:01:04] Instead of releasing new podcast episodes, well, I didn't release new podcast episodes. That's pretty straightforward right?

[00:01:15] When I started this podcast, I told myself that I would release a new episode every week no matter what.

[00:01:24] And even as I was making myself that promise, there was this little voice in the back of my head saying,

[00:01:31] Don't forget you have a chronic illness and there's no way that you can produce a new episode each week indefinitely.

[00:01:38] I told that little voice to shut up because it wasn't taking into account my mighty willpower that would triumph over any inconvenient level of chronic illness,

[00:01:50] allowing me the overall win in podcast production.

[00:01:54] I recorded three episodes to drop on the podcast launch day, then proceeded to produce 26 further episodes. One per week as I had stated I would before that little voice was proven to be prophetic.

[00:02:10] When working on episode 30, I was getting sick.

[00:02:15] Don't think I was sick enough to have needed to delay the episode, but I was also having technical issues.

[00:02:23] I think if I hadn't been sick as well, I'd have pushed through the technical issues and emerged on the other side with an on time episode.

[00:02:33] But that was just not meant to be.

[00:02:37] I felt absolutely horrible for not having released an episode that week told myself,

[00:02:43] one missing episode that's all I got. Never again, then of course like I said, missed two in April, missed one in May.

[00:02:54] All courtesy of a CFS flare up, that's lasting way too long for my tastes.

[00:03:00] There were several days where I couldn't even lift my arms over my head, let alone right record, edit and upload a new podcast episode.

[00:03:08] But now I'm back. Hopefully on my intended weekly schedule, but that's a goal, not a promise. Unfortunately,

[00:03:18] hopefully that answers any questions you might have had about the weeks there weren't new episodes.

[00:03:23] Actually, I was talking to my audience at the moment, not you, Mr. Elephant.

[00:03:33] Let's go ahead and get this episode started. The disclaimer, Lego is a trademark of the Lego group of companies, which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this podcast.

[00:03:45] Are you ready to listen to the world's number one Lego podcast recorded in my apartment?

[00:04:09] Welcome to the Battle Girl of the Lego podcast. My name is Mike Sneath and I'm your host. Let's get right into it.

[00:04:25] I build things out of Lego, because I like building was Lego.

[00:04:31] I build specific things out of Lego, because I want to build those specific things.

[00:04:39] Building things, because I wanted to build them, should be enough for me.

[00:04:45] The whole concept of build for yourself, not for an audience, build for your own pleasure.

[00:04:53] But I'm a human and humans tend to run off of praise. We like being told that we've done a good job.

[00:05:04] So I take the box that I build to Lego conventions, so that I can show them off to people.

[00:05:10] Sometimes people will say nice things about my mocks, which makes me feel good.

[00:05:15] And I say nice things about other people's mocks because there is an extent to which Lego conventions are kind of mutual appreciation society like on the non-public dates.

[00:05:27] We all like hearing nice things being said about our mocks.

[00:05:31] But even better than one person or two people, or even five people, saying something nice about your mocks is being informed that the convention has awarded you our mock a trophy.

[00:05:46] It used to be that when someone would mention trophy, the image that would pop into my head was either the traditional gold victory cup or the classic gold statue at.

[00:05:59] But now, when I hear the word trophy, the image that pops into my head is the style of Lego trophies given out at BrickCon and Brick's cascade.

[00:06:10] Two, eight stud by eight stud plates with a layer of brick in between, an engraved one by eight brick at the front and a miniature celebratory mock built on top of it.

[00:06:23] The trophy of my people.

[00:06:26] I've seen images of other styles of Lego trophies online.

[00:06:30] These given out at other conventions outside of driving distance from where I live, they don't all conform to the local eight by eight standard.

[00:06:39] But they all do seem to be made from bricks.

[00:06:42] I'm told that at some of the big conventions that happen outside of the Pacific Northwest, the best mocks receive nominations and the nominees are then voted on and the winners are presented with a trophy.

[00:06:56] To me, that seems like the ideal way to do it.

[00:07:00] But that's not how we do it here.

[00:07:03] I'm not 100% certain how the process works at BrickCon but I'm assuming it's similar to the Brick's cascade method.

[00:07:11] Each theme is allocated a certain number of trophies, usually three.

[00:07:17] The theme coordinator creates the trophy names and category if applicable way ahead of time.

[00:07:24] Need time to get the one by eight Brick's engraved after all.

[00:07:27] And then, during the convention, the theme coordinators select which mocks from their section get trophies awarded to them.

[00:07:36] Trophies are also rewarded to game winners at Lego conventions.

[00:07:41] And I think my favorite Lego trophy concept is the trophy for best trophy.

[00:07:47] Very meta that one.

[00:07:52] In 2014, my friend Kyle and I attended BrickCon.

[00:07:56] It was my second BrickCon, my third Lego convention overall.

[00:08:01] My often sketchy memory tells me that I had built somewhere between a half dozen to a dozen mocks to bring with me.

[00:08:09] When my membership for that convention was purchased, it was purchased using a credit card in my sister's name.

[00:08:16] I registered using my real name, but payment went through my sister.

[00:08:22] When we arrived at the convention, we signed in as one does.

[00:08:26] I got my convention badge which had my name on it and my swag bag printed one by hit badge Bricks, Miss Lanyan Stuff.

[00:08:35] We were told that mock cards were not ready yet, but to go ahead and start setting up mocks in the appropriate sections.

[00:08:44] Mock cards for those unfamiliar are the little signs that you place beside or in front of your mock with information like the mocks name, the name of the builder,

[00:08:55] and usually a number for the purposes of voting and or general organization.

[00:09:02] So I set up my mocks.

[00:09:06] I had one in the micro scale theme, a couple in the bricks of character theme, several in the chronicon 10,000 BC collaborative build devoted to a time traveler's convention in a primordial jungle.

[00:09:23] Other miscellaneous mocks in other categories.

[00:09:27] At some point after I had everything set up, there was an announcement that mock cards had been given out to the theme coordinators and to see them to pick up your cards.

[00:09:38] I went to the chronicon colab first and the theme coordinator told me they weren't sorted and to just look through them and pull mine out.

[00:09:47] So I started rifling through the stack looking for my name.

[00:09:50] I didn't find it.

[00:09:53] So I looked again this time looking for the titles of the mocks I'd built for the colab.

[00:09:59] I quickly found them, but discovered that all three of them attributed my mocks as having been the creation of my sister instead of me.

[00:10:09] It didn't take long for me to discover that this was true of every single mock card for my mocks.

[00:10:17] The only place that brickcon knew my sister's name from was the credit card that paid for my membership.

[00:10:25] Everything else was my name, but as near as the bewildered convention staff and I could figure, whoever put together the list of mock cards to be printed must have used a list of names from the payment method instead of the registered membership.

[00:10:42] Weird.

[00:10:45] So I borrowed a Sharpie from someone and then went around correcting my mock cards.

[00:10:51] Cross out my sister's name, write my name in, over and over again.

[00:10:58] When I had finished making those corrections, I asked myself, was that all of them?

[00:11:03] Consulted my off-time whimsical memory, decided that it was, and then returned the Sharpie to its owner?

[00:11:11] I will now tell the story of the one time that I've had a mock winner trophy at a convention.

[00:11:19] So a couple of days later, I'm sitting in the theater that was used at the time for the main brickcon presentations watching the award ceremony.

[00:11:27] I know the quality of this stuff I've built, so I'm not anxiously waiting to hear my name called as a winner.

[00:11:35] But as I'm sitting there listening to the names that are being called, they announced the name of the person who won the award for best my crop-alist module.

[00:11:44] And it's my sister.

[00:11:46] Because of course it is.

[00:11:49] I had been wrong.

[00:11:51] I had corrected all but one of my mock cards.

[00:11:55] And of course, the one I missed turned out to be the one that mattered on a word ceremony night.

[00:12:02] The next day, the microscope theme coordinator commented to me that there had been a far lower than usual turnout for the micro-palose section that year.

[00:12:13] I've given that some thought.

[00:12:15] And the way I see it, he was either letting me know about his appreciation for my mock being so good that it stood out as an obvious winner.

[00:12:25] Or he was letting me know that if there had been more mocks in the category, mine wouldn't have had a chance at the trophy.

[00:12:32] There's an amusing epilogue to this story.

[00:12:35] The next year, I went back up to Brick on.

[00:12:39] Once again, my membership was paid for with my sister's credit card.

[00:12:43] But I emailed the convention letting them know what had happened last year and asking them to look into things to make sure that this didn't happen to me again.

[00:12:53] And so, after getting my mocks set up and hearing that mock cards were available, I discovered that once again,

[00:13:01] every single mock card had my sister's name on them.

[00:13:05] Not mine.

[00:13:06] We skipped the next couple of Brick cons, so I'm not sure how long this would have gone on for.

[00:13:13] But before returning to Brick on in 2019,

[00:13:17] I had added a special brick to my brick badge whose engraving red in parentheses, not, and then my sister's name.

[00:13:26] Just so people would know who I wasn't.

[00:13:29] In 2015, I stepped into the role of superheroes theme coordinator for Brick's cascade,

[00:13:35] which meant that I was in charge of the three trophies for my section.

[00:13:40] Not just naming them and selecting who would win them, but I also quickly discovered that I was tasked with building them.

[00:13:47] The first thing I felt I needed was to know what each trophy was going to represent.

[00:13:54] I typed the keyword Brick's cascade into Flickr and looked at about a million photos of mocks that had been displayed there,

[00:14:01] specifically looking for superhero mocks.

[00:14:04] And wanted to figure out what kind of mocks people were building so that I could develop appropriate categories.

[00:14:12] I actually submitted names for four trophies, hoping that the convention would let me get away with that.

[00:14:20] One was for Best in Theme.

[00:14:22] The second was for the best superhero base or super villain layer.

[00:14:27] The third was for the best Brick-Bill character, and the extra trophy was for the best entry in the collaborative build.

[00:14:36] The convention's theme that year was Lights Camera Action.

[00:14:41] So I decided that my Best in Theme trophy would be an Academy Award themed award.

[00:14:48] I built a red curtain between two white pillars at the back of the trophy, and had Wolverine in a Tuxedo behind a podium about to rip open an envelope with his claws.

[00:14:59] The name of the trophy was, and the winner is...

[00:15:03] That remains the best trophy I ever built.

[00:15:09] The other trophies that I built that first year were just okay, but nothing overly special.

[00:15:15] And my trophy building went steadily down hill for the rest of my time as theme coordinator.

[00:15:23] The trophy for Best Base or Layer was a micro scale version of the back-haves.

[00:15:28] And the trophy for the best Brick-Bill character, the depicted several workmen, constructing a giant teenage mutant ninja turtle statue.

[00:15:38] To emphasize that it was being built and not actually yet built, I had put it together in such a way that it was slightly wobbly.

[00:15:48] The day after the award ceremony, the winner of that trophy informed me that it had fallen apart before he managed to get it home.

[00:15:55] Oops.

[00:15:57] The extra trophy was for the collaborative build.

[00:16:01] That collab was about multiverse style inter-company crossovers, and focused on a reality-traveling portal called an Artifuscape.

[00:16:10] The trophy was simply one of those Artifus gates built atop the standard trophy base.

[00:16:16] And after having put in the research time to figure out what categories people were likely to build in, almost nobody brought bases, slash layers or Brick-Bill figures.

[00:16:29] So for the following four years of my stint as theme coordinator, the categories were basically Best In Theme, Second Best In Theme, and Best In Colab.

[00:16:40] The Best In Colab trophy was easy to build.

[00:16:43] For all five years it was simply a recolored version of the Artifuscape, Boom Done.

[00:16:49] The other two trophies were a little more problematic.

[00:16:53] The second year I went with a trophy theme by which I mean battle souvenirs, like you'd find in the trophy room of Avengers Mansion or the JLA headquarters.

[00:17:04] Best In Theme that year was Defender of the Earth, which included the Lego Mini-Figure Scale Globe piece.

[00:17:12] Second Best In Theme was key to the city, which had a big golden key on a pedestal.

[00:17:19] Your three, the Best In Theme was up and away, and was a mini-land scale version of Superman taking flight.

[00:17:27] Second Best In Theme was Biff Bam Pow in the actual trophy was kind of a disaster.

[00:17:36] My goal was to produce a rotating three-sided object with each of the three classic animatopaea for Adam West Batman's Dial Fistocuffs.

[00:17:47] Biff Bam and Pow.

[00:17:51] None of my attempts really worked the way I'd hoped.

[00:17:55] But my obsessive compulsive brain was determined that I would have a three-sided spinning trophy.

[00:18:02] So, I never took the moment to realize that it would have been easier to just build those three words into a stack and be done with it.

[00:18:12] So, the end result was large and unwieldy.

[00:18:16] But they had three sides and it spun, so I called it good.

[00:18:21] I liked the end result of the Superman trophy so much that mini-land scale figures became the standard for the best and second best trophies for the final two years of my run as Theme Coordinator.

[00:18:33] I built very generic superhero slash super villain archetype figures and attached them to trophy bases.

[00:18:41] Year four was brick crusader and criminal mastermind.

[00:18:45] Year five was vigilante and sidekick.

[00:18:49] Five years, 16 trophies.

[00:18:54] That was the end total of my trophy building for Lego conventions.

[00:18:59] But I never saw a law stating that the brick built trophies are only to be given out at Lego conventions.

[00:19:07] So, I once made the decision to award a non-convention brick built trophy.

[00:19:15] Not for winning a game, not for building a fantastic mock, but rather for a service performed for the local A-Full community.

[00:19:25] The majority of the local Lego fan community is up in the Portland Oregon area.

[00:19:30] And I'm one of those rare Oregon A-Fulls that live here in Salem.

[00:19:35] So, maybe six or seven years ago it became standard practice for someone who lives out this way to pick up all of the lug bulk orders for the people in this area and deliver them instead of making everyone here drive up the Portland individually to get their order.

[00:19:52] Which was especially great in my case since I don't drive.

[00:19:57] For the first three years of this era, the lug bulk was picked up from Portland and delivered to us Salem dwellers by an A-Full I am choosing to refer to as Mr. Grumpy.

[00:20:08] That's not a ironic nickname that I'm giving him like when you call it a really big guy tiny.

[00:20:13] It seemed to me like he was having no fun doing these lug bulk deliveries that he had volunteered to do.

[00:20:20] I could be wrong. It could just be that he didn't like me anything is possible.

[00:20:26] A couple of times I gave him a lug-o-polly bag, it's a thank you, but I'd still mostly receive Grump face from him.

[00:20:35] One time the lug bulk delivery happened shortly before Brickcon which I was attending that year.

[00:20:41] The Brickchick was one of the vendors that year and as Brick's were being engraved for her customers, I had a thought.

[00:20:49] I'd have her engraved a Brick for me, which I would use to build a trophy around to present to Mr. Grumpy when he dropped off the following year's lug bulk.

[00:21:00] So when I returned home after that convention, I had a white 1 by 8 Brick with black engraving that red lug bulk delivery.

[00:21:10] I put it someplace where I wouldn't lose it, telling myself that I'd build the trophy long before I actually needed it.

[00:21:16] Then about a year later when it was announced that lug bulk had arrived in Portland and our orders had been put together. My first thought was, oh yeah, I was supposed to build a trophy it wasn't I.

[00:21:28] But later that same day I got an email from our lug ambassador letting me know that my order would be delivered that weekend.

[00:21:36] Not by Mr. Grumpy as pre-usual but by some other guy.

[00:21:41] I was immediately filled with equal parts disappointment and relief.

[00:21:45] First, not being able to present Mr. Grumpy with his trophy.

[00:21:49] But then at not having to build the trophy after all.

[00:21:53] I mean for all I knew this other guy would deliver the lug bulk once and then I'd never see him again so no trophy for him.

[00:22:01] And the next year it was someone else bringing me my lug bulk order.

[00:22:06] But this guy would become the recurring lug bulk delivery guy for the Salem area.

[00:22:12] His name is Grant Fajjo and I consider him not just a friend of mine but also a friend of the podcast.

[00:22:17] He is, among other things, the driving force behind the monthly Brick's and Booze events I've mentioned before on the podcast.

[00:22:26] In addition to bringing me my lug bulk order each year Grant has also picked up a plethora of full pickabrick cups and build a mini figure trio's from the Lego store and delivered them to my doorstep.

[00:22:39] Last year when it was announced that lug bulk had arrived in Portland I realized that if anyone deserved a trophy for bringing lug bulk and other lugo goodness to me, it was Grant.

[00:22:50] I dug through my collection of parts and discovered that I had the head and hairpiece that Grant was using for his sighing.

[00:22:59] I had a set of generic workmen overall torsos and legs that I was hoping would give off a decent delivery man vibe.

[00:23:08] I built a crate full of Lego for him to carry and then along the right hand side of the face I built my front door.

[00:23:18] So when Grant stopped by to drop off my lug bulk order last year I asked him to wait a moment, then brought my order inside and returned a moment later with the trophy.

[00:23:27] He looked pleased with it. Maybe a little bewildered but also pleased. So mission accomplished.

[00:23:34] I think that I'm probably done building trophies now unless some weird impulse hits me I've had enough of the whole trophy building thing.

[00:23:43] I'm still very open to winning trophies however, I have the one trophy from Britcon.

[00:23:50] I'd post a photo of it on the podcast's Instagram account but right now it has packed away in a storage tote in either of my brother's basement or garage and retrieving it would be an ordeal I'm not about to undertake.

[00:24:03] I want a trophy from Brick's Cascade as I've attended more Brick's Cascades than I have Brick Cahn's plus it's my home convention.

[00:24:13] Twice now, my name has been called during the Brick's Cascade Award ceremonies winning an honorable mention.

[00:24:21] This year for my teenage ninja turtle max and a couple of years ago for my Justice League of Orkkine headquarters mock.

[00:24:31] Yeah, I built nine floors of a superhero headquarters from an alternate DC universe where instead of the prominent races in the universe being humans and human looking individuals.

[00:24:42] They were instead orks and ork looking individuals. Some of my ideas are stranger than others.

[00:24:49] But while winning a Brick's Cascade trophy is still definitely on my to-do list, I've actually had some of my mocks start acquiring tokens.

[00:25:01] So what is a token you ask? First of all, token is not a universally accepted Lego term for them.

[00:25:09] I've heard them referred to as tokens of appreciation or simply tokens.

[00:25:14] Fan trophies, micro trophies, goot jicks and a variety of other terms.

[00:25:21] As for what it is, it is pretty much what it sounds like, a token of appreciation from someone who appreciated your mock.

[00:25:31] These are typically left beside or in front of your mock and they usually take the form of Lego, a specific piece, a tiny little mock.

[00:25:42] I've even heard of many figures being used.

[00:25:45] I tell you they're origin, but they don't really have one, not one anyway.

[00:25:53] More like several. I'll tell you about the main two.

[00:25:58] One of which starts about 12 years ago.

[00:26:01] The other starts probably sometime before that and continues on to present day and probably beyond.

[00:26:11] 2011. An A-full named Arthur Guggick is named Rick Worldmaster.

[00:26:18] Rick World is one of the larger Lego conventions and they apparently name an official convention master builder each year.

[00:26:25] This is as much about that as I know.

[00:26:27] In 2012, as Arthur Guggick's Rick Worldmaster reign comes to an end, he brings a container of Lego scorpions with him to the convention.

[00:26:39] The small single piece black scorpion that Lego introduced in 1998 to menace Johnny Thunder and other characters in the adventure theme.

[00:26:48] Arthur Guggick then went around randomly adding a scorpion to any mock he particularly liked, which initially confused a lot of people.

[00:26:57] Where are all these scorpions coming from?

[00:27:01] The new Rick Worldmaster for that year, the ubiquitous Simon Loo, decided that the scorpion thing was a great idea that needed to become a tradition.

[00:27:11] A new, duty for the departing Rick Worldmaster to carry out.

[00:27:16] But somehow realizing that 12 years later, some guy would be telling this story on a podcast, Simon decided he needed to go bigger, more elaborate.

[00:27:27] Instead of leaving a single piece animal, he was going to leave a tiny little mock.

[00:27:34] The mock he designed was a tiny little spaceship piloted by a Lego frog, the frog pod.

[00:27:43] The whole thing was 13 pieces.

[00:27:49] That six pieces too many for me to build a frog pod to incorporate into a Simon Loo themed Lego Hi-Coo.

[00:27:59] This saddens me.

[00:28:02] Anyway, from that point forward, the departing Rick Worldmaster was expected to gift a flood of micromox of their own design to builders at the con.

[00:28:13] These original mass produced micromox became known as Googix.

[00:28:19] From there, it started to spread from Rick Worldmasters at Rick World to A-Fulls at other conventions.

[00:28:26] That's origin number one.

[00:28:29] Origin number two is a little less precise.

[00:28:32] Someone got the idea to build tiny little mock-like pseudo-trophies to award to mocks that they particularly like to con.

[00:28:41] Why?

[00:28:43] My speculation is they either didn't agree with the choice of mocks that got the bigger wards or retired if seeing great mocks overlooked by award givers because they weren't big or flashy.

[00:28:56] Who knows for sure?

[00:28:58] And when I say that someone got this idea, what I actually mean is that many different someone's got this idea independently from each other over a long period of time.

[00:29:10] Sure.

[00:29:13] Other A-Fulls, seeing this idea implemented would sometimes be inspired to take up the practice as well.

[00:29:19] But listening to stories of A-Fulls who got the idea and started doing it on their own, they were always surprised when they learned that.

[00:29:28] There were other people who had also been doing the same thing at cons on the other side of the country or in another country.

[00:29:36] They thought that they'd invented the concept.

[00:29:39] And they kind of did, it's just that they weren't the only one.

[00:29:44] Now it seems to be catching on in a big way.

[00:29:48] There was a recent discussion on the Brick's cascade discord about mocks that receive a lot of tokens finding them distracting from the actual mock itself.

[00:29:58] And suggestions that tokens be cleared away each morning before doors open to the public, which might be the logical rep to take.

[00:30:07] I became aware of the whole token thing in 2019.

[00:30:11] I thought it was a cool idea, one of those, hey, maybe one day I'll do that ideas.

[00:30:19] But in 2021, at the one day outdoor Brick's cascade Brickknick event, held during the otherwise conventionless pandemic era,

[00:30:30] one of those tokens showed up next to a mock of mine.

[00:30:35] I'd built a mock depicting the final round of the World Cookie Eating Championships, which pitted cookie monster against Santa Claus.

[00:30:43] At the end of the day, when I went to pack it up for the ride home, there it was.

[00:30:49] My first ever token of appreciation for something I had built.

[00:30:56] To be perfectly honest, I wasn't 100% certain what the assemblage of Lego parts was meant to represent.

[00:31:04] I'm pretty sure it was either a really cool bug or a tiny little spaceship.

[00:31:11] But I could be wrong.

[00:31:14] I was just overjoyed that somebody had liked my mock enough to award me one.

[00:31:19] Since then, I've gotten a good handful of tokens.

[00:31:25] If all goes well, there'll be a photo of my token collection on the podcast's Instagram account shortly after this episode drops.

[00:31:34] At the last convention I attended, I made the decision that I would bring tokens of my own to the next con I went to.

[00:31:41] And since then, I've stayed home from both of the cons I traditionally go to.

[00:31:47] But it looks very probable that I'll be going to brickcon in September.

[00:31:51] And if I do, it will be with the collection of tokens to place by the mocks that really connect with me.

[00:31:58] I think that's everything I've got for this episode.

[00:32:02] Oh, right! I should probably mention that the elephant sounds used in this episode were provided by Pixabay.com,

[00:32:11] which has a whole bunch of royalty free images, videos, gifts, music and sound effects available for download.

[00:32:20] No, Mr. Elephant, I'm not saying you aren't real.

[00:32:26] Well, obviously those noises were made by an actual elephant here in my podcast studio.

[00:32:32] Just pretend what I said about Pixabay was a joke, okay?

[00:32:38] That's just great.

[00:32:40] Now there's an elephant in the room that's having an existential crisis.

[00:32:45] This is not what I needed today.

[00:32:49] Make sure to catch next week's episode where I'll be returning to the slippery slope of non-pyrrist building and talking about the clone bricks produced by Webrick.

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