I guess all fans of building blocks sometimes have trouble separating some pieces. The problem is most striking especially in case of completely new sets, as intensively used bricks tend to stick to others a little weaker.
By looking at our oldest bricks, we could analyse our dental development, but we do not recommend such solution for separating pieces – and neither does your dentist.
An interesting way to disconnect the blocks is to use a paraphrase of the principle that a bigger problem drives out a smaller problem. Since the problem usually lies in separating couple of plates – attach a brick to one or both resistant plates and try to separate the stubborn pieces.
Partly that might have been the principle upon the creation of the so-called by us Mr. Splitter – a special functional piece.
Everyone has experienced extremely difficult cases to disconnect pieces at some point. Our toughest case is a combination of two blocks:
with the same, but reversed:
Just don’t connect these blocks, it’s really difficult to separate them! Mr. Splitter won’t be of any help here.
Ok, but the post was supposed to be about something else – about the creative use of Mr. Splitter and his clones – an example is shown in the photo. In our opinion, brick-worms are Mr. Splitter’s natural environment!
