ABSTRACT. Let Ä be a dendrite whose endpoints are dense and let A be the complement in A of a dense er-compact collection of endpoints of A. This paper investigates various general position properties that finite products of A and A possess. In particular, it is shown that (i) if X is an LCn-space that satisfies the disjoint n-cells property, then X X A satisfies the disjoint (n + l)-cells property, (ii) An X [-1,1] is a compact (n + l)-dimensional AR that satisfies the disjoint n-cells property, (iii) Än+1 is a compact (n + l)-dimensional AR that satisfies the stronger general position property that maps of n-dimensional compacta into Än+1 are approximable by both Z-raaps and Zn -embeddings, and (iv) An+1 is a topologically complete (n + l)-dimensional AR that satisfies the discrete n-cells property and as such, maps from topologically complete separable n-dimensional spaces into An+1 are strongly approximable by closed Zn-embeddings.