I've been out of the Lego game for about a decade at this point, but it was very easy to re-purpose most "specialty" pieces. Depending on what type of things yo

I've been out of the Lego game for about a decade at this point, but it was very easy to re-purpose most "specialty" pieces. Depending on what type of things you wanted to build, it often would be preferrable to re-imagine a specialty piece because they often looked slicker/cooler than what a similar construction of generic bricks would look like.