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Re: Which airport is best?... an RTL Repost
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Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:31:01 GMT
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You forget that CS has a second chopper. It's of the boring, ho-hum,
clone of a 1000 other TLG copters variety, so I'm not sure if it's an
asset to CS, or a detriment. ;)
Also, (just looking at the browser pictures--I don't have any of these
sets) the IJ building looks much cooler than the CS or A buildings. It
looks like (part of) a passenger terminal in a large airport. The tower
is slightly cheesy, but hey! it's lego. I'd say get the CS and IJ, and
combine them for the full effect of an airport with passenger airlines
and commercial freight. A is good for a private field, I think. Or a
small airport, like you might find in Houghton or Lowell.
Steve
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 05:18:26 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
wrote:
> I just got a note from someone who remembered the comparision I did on
> RTL between the three airports, and I decided to repost it here in
> .reviews where it might be easier to find.
>
> Here's a Dejanews reference if you want to see the thread in context,
> etc.
>
> http://x8.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=416683216&CONTEXT=920437857.281411851&hitnum=16
>
> and here's a copy of the post (including my sig at the time, what the
> hey..) At this time I have all three, A, IJ and CS. I still feel the
> same way but I do cherish my A. Note also that this post is out of
> context, Matt and I had been sparring (in fun, I thought) about this so
> I was needling him a bit.
>
> -- start copy from RTL --
>
> Matt Hanson wrote:
>
> >
> > Not to start a legitimate discussion, or anything, but <eh-hem> how did
> > this set ever get to be so popular? I just don't see it... It looks
> > pretty much like all the other airports, with the exception of the
> > design of the plane, and that really isn't any big advancement. Please
> > help me resolve this, or get some sort of closure on this issue.
>
> So everyone's working from the same pages, I've included refs to the
> three sets I am about to discuss:
>
> Airport (1985):
> http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=6392-1
> International Jetport (1990):
> http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=6396
> Century Skyway (1994):
> http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=6597
>
> Now, open three browser windows, and follow along. I abbreviate these as
> A, IJ, CS for brevity...
>
> Now, how to rank these? They have different piece counts and prices.
>
> I'd say, rank them on:
> - Quality of airliner
> - Quality of helicopter
> - Quality of support equipment
> - Quality of tower
> - Quality of terminal building(s)
> - Quality of runways
>
> Airliner:
> I think we all would agree that the airliner in each is roughly
> equivalent, although I'd rank them in this order (always best one first
> in what follows): CS (airliner flips open, and is cooler), IJ (almost
> identical, I forget if it flips or not), A (almost as good... the four
> engines are nice.)
>
> Copter:
> A has the best copter, in terms of realism, but CS is bigger. IJ is a
> dinky ho-hum copter like 1000 other TLG copters. Yawn. Rank: A (wide
> margin), CS (wide margin), IJ (dead last by a lot! That copter is SO
> boring).
>
> Support equipment:
> CS (baggage tow and cart, gasser, stairs) IJ (baggage tow and cart), A
> (baggage tow and cart, substantially less realistic than IJ or CS) CS
> wins this one by a HUGE margin, no other set (1) has stairs, a must have
> if you don't have high level gates or steps built into the plane. Gasser
> is nice but not key... you could buy gas'n'go flyer for completeness to
> get a gas truck if, like some, you were building a full up airport.
>
> Tower:
> CS (separate tower, kinda reminds me of LAX tower in a way), A (mounted
> on terminal in a convincing way), IJ (mounted on terminal in an
> unconvincing way, last by a wide margin... again.)
>
> Terminal Building(s):
> CS (two buildings, including a garage, and a nice terminal, although the
> palm tree is misplaced.. best by a wide margin), IJ (the gates on the
> single building are well done, slightly better than...) A, (nice
> building but ho hum...)
>
> Runways: A tossup. CS has a few more plates but all are about the same
> in my book.
>
> So, Mr. Hanson.... :-) in my book, IJ does not come in first in ANY
> category, and comes in third in several, and in at least two is
> stunningly last. CS comes in first in several, by a wide margin once. A
> only wins one (the copter). My overall ranking is:
>
> CS, A, IJ.
>
> and so should be yours. :-) Note that I have CS and IJ but not A. (not
> yet, anyway...) Hope that helps. Thanks for playing.
>
> > And, for what it's worth, I happen to like the International Jetport
> > about 20 times better than skyway... (go ahead, do what you gotta do)
>
> I had to do it... Consider it done. Note that I don't like CS "about 20
> times" better than A, but I'd say I like CS about 4-5 times better than
> IJ, and IJ makes my top 20 list of non train sets.
>
> 1 - EVER, that I know of. Is there another set anywhere that has
> airplane stairs?? Anyone?
>
> --
> Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
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>
>
> --
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