Not Thriving: Bitz Box

Note: Asterlix gave others permission to make the thread, but since no OP was provided, I took some of the text from this Trope Talk thread.

Bitz Box only has 22 wicks, and its description says it's for boxes full of spare toy parts. But not all of the times such a box appears in fiction are significant and it's not clear where it is significant enough to list on the page.

Some of the examples are about when someone creates things from the stuff in the Bitz Box. Are those the only instances where it counts?

I'll copy here the aforementioned examples just so you don't need to open another tab:

• Toy Story: Wicked Toymaker Sid has turned his bedroom into one, giant Bitz Box. He gets his spare parts from his toys and resembles them as he sees fit for his play-pretend games. Nothing out of the ordinary if not for the fact the toys are sentient, which makes this hobby of his quite horrifying. Later, it's exploited by the toys themselves to accomplish all sorts of tasks — like using one toy's added fishing rod to swing a second toy so it can ring the doorbell. It Makes Sense in Context.
• Brikwars: Justified since its entire premise is "Warhammer meets LEGO". Yes, the game provides premade kits but it also supports (even encourages) the use of any toys and spare parts the player might have laying around. It's also quite fit for Miniatures Conversions; whatever the player's imagination comes up with.
• Warhammer 40,000: The Trope Namer. Ork armies are a great way to clear out the techy-looking stuff from one's Bitz Box, as they love welding gubbins onto their machines more or less at random because it looks cool. Some players believe that you have achieved true "orkiness" when pouring glue into the bitz box and shaking it out creates a functional model, or perhaps more realistically when you can create a new vehicle from the bitz box alone.

Paging ~Asterlix to the thread.

Anyway, this is a product of when the wiki's standards were lower between being launched in the early years of the wiki without YKTTW/TLP, lacking wicks, and also appearing to lack a consistent meaning (the examples point toward what counts as an example being too broad, resulting in any collection of assorted objects being allowed), so I'm in favor of cutting it.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 4th 2022 at 10:18:04 AM

I don't see a trope here, so cut it. I can entertain yarding Abandoned Hobby (similar to Tragic Abandoned Toy) because that's a common plot.

Cut but yard Abandoned Hobby

The only way I can see this being preserved as is is as a Trivia item. Aside from that, cutting and yarding Abandoned Hobby works.

Cut and yard.

Cut, yard AH.

Cut and yard

Cut.

Hi. I'm also in favor of cutting it. Even after crosswicking the examples are just all over the place and there's too few of them.

Done, so locking up.