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Re: New Lego Exoforce
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:06:58 GMT
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Well, the germans are always late with LEGO. We’ll get the sets in february.
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I just ordered mine through S/H. So I’ll probably get them sometime next week.
Germans are usually late with LEGO? That seems so, wrong.
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But still I like the idea of an anime combined with Lego sets.
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Which is the one really huge selling point for me. I think that this first run
of Exo-force is rushed (seems so hastily put together) the models are not very
refined looking.
I think LEGO would do well to collect a few Mecha LEGO builders and ask for some
pointers. The robots look ok, but as per Marco’s rather fabulouso examples
below, awesome looking mechas can be easy to do, and not terribly part heavy.
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The bronze-colored figures look like cheap run-of-the-mill unpainted generic
plastic action figures made in China to pseudo-resemble and profiteer on the
latest kid fad. Yes, they’re that horrible.
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Here I totally disagree. The robots are my favs. All of the body parts should
give good pieces for small creations. And, hey they are robots!
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Bah, I’m with Marco, the Robots, regardless of color, are some of the best parts
of these sets.
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Here are those righteous examples.
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I did a quick afternoon build of about three hours. Just trying to build what
I thought the mecha would/should look like. Used some unliked colores,
because they were at hand.
And this is the result:
Well it’s not very good, but still looks better than those skeletons from
TLC, IMHO.
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No, not polished but much ‘mechier’ looking than the exo-force sets.
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I really, really hope LEGO moves forward with Exo-force.
Other thoughts:
The marbling parts have got to go. I got the big fans from the hover ship and
was rather dissapointed when they were marbled. Solid color please.
The real challenge is to seperate the Exo-force style from any prior competition
brand mecha sets (my memory seems to think these are somewhat similar to other
sets I’ve seen before). This is where I think enlisting help from mecha
community could be a massive help. Soren KNOWS, and I mean this, KNOWS his
mecha. He alone could keep LEGO from wandering into stylistic copyright
infringement territory. Others in the commuinty could help with tips on
what-makes-a-mecha-hot. Huge potential, refine, refine, refine.
The little robots are awesome. I predict space will have new greebling parts
very soon.
I like the anime hair. I’m just dissapointed that they’re kinda rare. I hope
the hair finds use as alien plants, lighting effects (trans?) or other
possiblities.
I’ll probably have more thourough feelings on Exoforce once I get the robot
sets. Ask again in about a week or two.
Mark
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| Hello mecha friends. I have not seen anyone from build.mecha (forgive me if someone did and I missed it) talk about the new theme. I am digging a lot of the parts used but I am not sure about the minifigs and the design. I am not pro or against it (...) (18 years ago, 24-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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