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Re: The Bar Does Not Go Down
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Sun, 23 May 2004 16:49:29 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
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Have it with Darth Vader’s helmet. Its a tough one. I’ve only seen it in
one non-LEGO design.
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I’m not sure it’s the one you’re talking about, but I’ve seen your mini-Vader
walker (I’d love to see instructions for that, BTW), and I’ve also built one
MOC that uses it (DTotS was just a one-time modification of a pre-existing
MOC):
I also have an idea for making a vehicle with it someday. Someday...
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David,
I was referring to this:
It walks using a little red micromotor.
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Anyways, I agree with Orion to the extent that a lot of people casually
dismiss pieces as “useless” for no reason other than that they fall outside
of their realm of experience, but I don’t agree that it’s purely a matter of
limited imagination. The large Throwbot visors are pretty much useless
without a Throwbot head to be attached to, since they’re too flat to attach
to a TECHNIC fig helmet. On the flip side of that, I don’t think I’ve ever
seen an RCX being used for purely structural purposes instead of as an
electronic control system. There are parts that are very generic and there
are parts that are very specialized. The generic parts are the ones that get
used in the vast majority of MOCs by the vast majority of builders. The more
specialized a part is, the less often it will be used...but the more
rewarding it will be when you figure out a new use for it. The important
thing is that you don’t casually disregard a new piece as useless without
putting serious thought into possible uses for it. And picking it up with
the sole intent of proving that you can’t think of any uses for it is
cheating. Don’t view it as a waste of plastic. View it as a challenge.
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I was not disagreeing with Orion very hard. There is a scale of reusability,
and some parts have a very low reusability score. Orion’s point is that there
are no parts that are 0, and I agree. I was primarily just whining about the
low resuability score of Darth Vader’s helmet. In both our cases, we used the
helmet to make a take off on Darth Vader. These two examples do nothing for
increasing the helmet’s reusability score from zero.
Now if someone used them for boxing gloves, that would increase the score IMHO.
Kevin
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| (...) I agree with both of you. So far the only uses for this helmet (in either size) I've been able to come up with that aren't directly related to Darth, or some closely related thing like SpaceBalls, aren't really suitable for a family forum, or (...) (20 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| (...) I'm not sure it's the one you're talking about, but I've seen your mini-Vader walker (I'd love to see instructions for that, BTW), and I've also built one MOC that uses it (DTotS was just a one-time modification of a pre-existing MOC): (URL) I (...) (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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