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Re: Galaxy Explorer (Was Re: Poor packaging by TLC )
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Sun, 6 Feb 2000 14:58:32 GMT
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Paul Baulch (<FpIGtJ.FvA@lugnet.com>) wrote at
01:41:06
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> Tony Priestman wrote in message ...
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> > Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. There isn't anything special about
> > it, it's just a bigger version of 924.
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> Yes, that's right. In fact, looking at the picture of 924 (I don't own the
> set), it looks like one might actually be able to construct the 924 only
> using parts from 928.
I don't own 924 either. Wish I did, though.
> Now, more than ever, I can see why people like 924 so much. It's more....
> compact. Concise. Elegant. Who was it that said, "Perfection is achieved not
> when there is nothing left to add, but rather when there is nothing left to
> remove"?
Sounds a bit mathematical/philosophical to me. Not at all baroque :-)
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> > It's very nostalgic to build with just the original Space specialised
> > pieces, though.
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> I think that nostalgia is a prime factor in the way that AFOLs' favour old
> sets so much.... which is not to say that older sets weren't fantastic, a
> great many of them were.
Absolutely. But 928 just doesn't have any new ideas in it. I think we
AFOLs tend to appreciate the design of sets as much as the sets
themselves as pieces.
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> Hey - isn't it a bit naughty to refer to pre-1980 Lego elements as
> "specialised"? ;-)
When the Space stuff first came out in the UK, it was 1979, and I had
never seen a radar dish, a 2x1 plate with prongs, various wing pieces &
rocket bits, amongst others. At that time, they were *definitely*
special :-)
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> On another note, I'd love to see a newer version of 367 Lunar Module done
> with Technic figure astronauts. With the newer specialised pieces made in
> the last 25 years, it would be an awesome model.
What an absolutely brilliant idea! With the additional challenge, for
those with the bricks, of building the delivery system :-)
I've just had a vision of a Saturn V moving backwards into the ground,
as the plastic melts with the heat of the engines :-)
--
Tony Priestman
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| Tony Priestman wrote in message ... (...) Yes, that's right. In fact, looking at the picture of 924 (I don't own the set), it looks like one might actually be able to construct the 924 only using parts from 928. Now, more than ever, I can see why (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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