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| (2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> My version of the adorable (URL) robotic law enforcement officer> with just the right bugs. May be a teensy bit too big for minifig scale but is close enough to deploy in your town. Tim (17 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| Scary... in a good way ; ) Wouldn't want to run into an army of those! Thanks for sharing and God Bless, Nathan (URL) (17 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Very cool! I built and posted one several years ago, but yours is a superior design in many ways. Nicely done! Dave! (17 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| "Nathan Todd" <njt@london.com> wrote in message news:JC0wsF.B41@lugnet.com... (...) ED-209's aren't particularly smart. They don't do stairs very well. Traversing manholes seems equally difficult, and last but not least They can be hacked easily - (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Linkies? JOHN (17 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) And be a protagonist. They have difficulty locking onto those types of targets.... JOHN (17 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) (URL) Here's> the DAT file. I can't seem to find a picture of it at the moment, though. You'll note that the legs are a particular design weakness! But I was working with elements in my actual collection and did the best I could with what I (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Ah, yes--much like those esteemed graduates of The Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy. Dave! (17 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) I do have the benefit of a lot of new pieces. The wedge on its head was made for an ED-209 and 1x1 slopes make everything better. Tim (17 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) It's certainly not the fault of Blaster & Wesson, the firearms manufacturer. When used by good guys, they never miss. JOHN (17 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) First off that is an awesome version of ED-209. About the closest I have seen to mini-fig scale, great job. (...) Now don't be silly. Its those blasted magical main character shields. Nothing wrong with any bad guys marksmanship they just (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Ah yes. RoboCop was the last great hurrah before The Abyss and Terminator 2 ushered in the computer effects era for good. So in effect, ED was the curtain call for stop-motion animation, as far as big-budget sci-fi films are concerned. And oh (...) (17 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) And the Last Starfighter ushered in the CGI... :) (some say it was Tron, but they would be mistaken...) Dave K (17 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) I loooved that movie. I'm going off to see if it is available on DVD now. OAO JOHN (17 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) I loved it too, but I saw it on the tube a few years back... the CGI is really hard to take now. Though the 'Greetings Starfighter!!!' never gets old, and Preston was completely on his mark. Dave K -hear that you slimes! I'm famous! (17 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) This sounds like good advice for all of life, thanks much! ; ) God Bless all, Nathan (URL) (17 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Surely you're not forgetting Army of Darkness?!? If that's not a stop-motion tour de force, I don't know what is! But I agree that something satisfying was lost when the film industry collectively decided to move to CGI... Dave! (17 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Gimme some sugar, baby! Dave K - Klaatu, Barada, Nic-*coug* *cough* (17 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) And now with added (URL) singing>. Tim (17 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Oh no, no indeed! I don't forget the glorious Army of Darkness. But considering it came out one year after T2 and one year before Jurassic Park, it was essentially already a throwback to an era whose time had past. A eulogy of sorts. As was (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Stop action isn't dead, but it's definitely "retro." Check out Aardman's "Chicken Run" or "Curse of the Were-Rabbit." Talk about attention to detail; there's practically a sight-gag in every frame! Just watch the credits for any modern CGI (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Remember, Spielberg's JP wasn't all about CGI (though I'll forget the first time I saw the wide shot of the brachs at the lake, or the stampeding Gallimimus scene). He used puppets and also autoerotic dinos as well;-) JOHN (17 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| "John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in message news:JCA1Kx.BG8@lugnet.com... <SNIPPAGE> He used puppets and also autoerotic dinos as well;-) (...) No wonder the dinos went extinct if they were all self-satisfying themselves instead of mating with a (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) No, I'm pretty sure it was for (URL) reason. JOHN (17 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
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| (...) That's true, but Aardman's stuff doesn't count because it's perfect--and it's a vile blasphemy to suggest otherwise. Its inclusion would automatically distort analysis of any other film!!! (...) My three-year-old is, surprise-surprise, very (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) I feel your pain; my son is two-and-a-half, and I could probably play Mater to 'yer Light'nin, if ya know whatta mean... Without going into painful detail, I think Pixar is still a few years ahead of DreamWorks or anyone else in the art. With (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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