I know that the chute is fake guys
However it doesn’t represent anything from the prototype - no giant chute slid blocks of ice into the house.
Thus, what was the reason to even have it?
Those cubes could be loaded from the small, upper chute or even manually dropped into a hole in the roof of the house
I’m guessing that it was originally planned to be a round-trip accessory. That plan got scrapped due to the limitations of the solenoid action but they kept the elements and made them decorative simply because they already had them incorporated into the design and it jazzed up the otherwise simplistic structure
