22 April 2009

Brickspace Dictionary: URPs

URP (abbrev.) (Ug·ly Rock Piece)
The URP family consists of two large hollow rocky pieces that are used commonly in landscaping and creating mountains. The URPs are also found in many Castle MOCs.

'URP' usually stands for Ugly Rock Piece, though it can also stand for Ugly Rock Part. They are 'ugly' because of their square, blocky and un-rock-like look. There are two types of URP:

LURP, standing for Little Ugly Rock Piece. These are roughly triangular in shape.









BURP, standing for Big Ugly Rock Piece. These are quite wide and square in their shape.









There is also the SLURP, which stands for Sandy Big Ugly Rock Piece. Used recently in a Pirates set as an island, the SLURP (named by Michael Huffman) has no studs and many circular holes to hold bricks with circular technic axels, which in turn can be connected to plates, bricks and other assorted bricks.

BURPs and LURPs are generally meant to be built upon with more bricks in the same colour:

3 comments:

Brick Alchemist said...

I hate to be the one to post a "your linkage is glitched" comment but I thought you should know that the Little Ugly Rock Piece picture doesnt seem to load.

Feel free to delete this comment if you like and keep up the good work on the Brictionary.

Michael said...

There there's my favorite, the SLURP or Sandy Large Ugly Rock Piece. :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwhuffman/3010375475/

John said...

Thank you all. The link is now (hopefully) fixed, and I have added in the SLURP to the list. Enjoy!