Toilet paper or towel? LEGO Ideas 21338 A-Frame Cabin designer reveals all
The white car door piece around the back of LEGO Ideas 21338 A-Frame Cabin has sparked fierce debate online, and the set’s designer has now confirmed its intended purpose.
Situated at the rear of the newly-revealed LEGO Ideas set – based on a design by Andrea Lattanzio – is a white car door, which at first glance looks to represent toilet paper for the cabin’s au natural bathroom. But it could also represent a towel, if you prefer your LEGO models to be a little more sanitised (the number of toilets in sets generally speaking suggests the LEGO designers aren’t so fussy).
The exact purpose of the piece has subsequently split opinion online, with the community divided right down the middle. This reddit thread on the set’s reveal is full of people insisting it’s one thing or the other – toilet paper for those adventurous minifigures doing their business in the great outdoors (backed up by the presence of a shovel), or a towel to accompany the brick-built shower.
A heated argument even broke out in the reddit comments regarding the reasonable height to place toilet paper (isn’t the internet great?), but we decided to sidestep that quarrel and head straight to the source. 21338 A-Frame Cabin was brought to life by three designers, including Justin Ramsden – designer of last year’s LEGO Marvel 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum – who confirmed the piece’s intended purpose to Brick Fanatics.
“It’s a car door,” Ramsden quipped. “It can work either as a towel or toilet roll or both – it’s very much open to interpretation. One thing is for certain, if you’ve already got 76218 in your collection, now you have both the left and right doors to make something cool.”
76218 Sanctum Sanctorum does indeed include the mirrored door piece to 21338 A-Frame Cabin, though it’s used there as a door for a fridge-freezer, rather than a towel or toilet paper. But if you do already own that set, you’ll be able to… add a second toilet roll or towel to the cabin? Or, you know. Do something more imaginative than that.
21338 A-Frame Cabin launches on February 1 for VIP members, and February 4 for everyone else, for £159.99 / $179.99 / €179.99.
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