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"richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message
news:Gzu2rF.3zM@lugnet.com...
> So we are doing a pretty bad job of following a sequence having blithely
> skipped over Futuron. No one is really in charge of this contest, unless
> Todd wants to administrate it again. So I guess we all just pick a theme.
> If we wanted to go back and attempt to correct the sequence, Futuron is
> next. It'd be nice to have the monorail DAT files made LDraw official
> soonish to accomplish the CAD side of that.
>
> Was this already decided elsewhere at some point?
>
> -- Hop-Frog
According to my 1987 and '88 catalogs (North American - perhaps they're
different in other parts of the world?), the Blacktron 'big three' (Invader,
Battrax, and Renagade) came out in '87. In '88, Futuron came out,
accompanied by the Blacktron Alienator and Message Intercept base. So
actually, other than our foray into IP 2002, we're keeping right with
schedule. And I was under the impression that the IP contest was kind of an
unofficial part II to December's Blacktron 1 contest.
Here's what I assumed would happen:
December 2002: Futuron
December 2003: Space Police,
M:Tron, BT2, SP2, etc... all in the order they were originally released.
I've been looking forward to building in Futuron - the bulk of my parts are
from that era and it's an extremely varied theme. I expect there will be a
lot more entries because so many more color schemes will qualify and also,
Ice Planet is kind of an acquired taste compared to Futuron. ;)
What exactly is Futuron, anyway? Just the five or so sets that are White
with trans blue, or is it any of that late classic space looking stuff? I
assumed white with just about any trans color would be fair game, as well as
the light and sound sets, and all that good stuff.
-- Tom
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> What exactly is Futuron, anyway? Just the five or so sets that are White
> with trans blue, or is it any of that late classic space looking stuff? I
> assumed white with just about any trans color would be fair game, as well as
> the light and sound sets, and all that good stuff.
IMHO futuron is any set that has a Futuron minifig, which I define as:
white torso with futuron pattern in color x (where color x is the color of
the fig)
helment in color x
visor in tr-dk-blue
classic smile head
arms + hands in color x
airtanks in color x
legs and hips in color x
All of these sets appear to use a white, black and transparent dark blue
color scheme (so thats what I am inclined to believe a futuron MOC should use)
Note that this is the same classification that the lugnet guide uses for
the theme.
Some of the sets use bits in other colors here and there (e.g. the blue
droid in 6884 or the red cones in the same set) but for the most part,
futuron is black, white and transparent dk blue (which is great because I
got lots of all 3 colors now, no monorail though :( )
The only possible anomaly is set 1974 (a multi-set special). The space set
in that pack is labeled futuron by the lugnet guide and its 99.9% futuron.
The only thing that makes it different is the fact that the helmet is white
instead of black.
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