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Re: What would YOU like to see from TECHNIC?
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lugnet.technic
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Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:36:50 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Brian Davis wrote:
> In lugnet.technic, Mervyn Tomb wrote:
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> > What about some process line plant, that would manipulate an
> > object on a conveyer and maybe put it in a box... Why doesn't
> > Lego Technic take us to the fairground and give us some
> > complex sun and planetary motions and G forces...
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> I think we've gone very far beyond the "vote for some of these stock models"
> point of the original post, but as long as we've gone there... <grin>...
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> I would love to see an "assembly line" style Technic series (each kit does
> something on it's own, but buying more than one allows you to link them together
> to make something more complex in an automated fashion). The question is if you
> can do this without "electronic" automation (without the NXt for instance),
> which would really drive the price up.
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> Another option I think might actually sell well (in addition to being fun for
> AFoLs... not always the same thing ;-) ), is GBC modules. I've had no end of fun
> building and displaying these, but perhaps more important it seems to have
> caught on with kids and school groups. And, again, you could make a number of
> them that follow the standard, and the more modules your have, the more fun you
> can have arranging them... Toss in 10 balls per module, and your soccer ball
> supply is self-sufficient as you buy new modules.
Before reading the poll's and the replies, I was going to say "machines of the
industrial revolution". But then I saw a poll that gives me N choices of
crane.... yawn.
How about a lathe with a hot-wire tool that can turn shapes in foam? How about
a milling machine that can mill soft wax? How about a loom that can weave
standard knitting yarn? How about a model bottling line than pushes 1x1 plates
onto the tops of 1x1 bricks (or model bottles)? A drill press?
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| (...) I think we've gone very far beyond the "vote for some of these stock models" point of the original post, but as long as we've gone there... <grin>... I would love to see an "assembly line" style Technic series (each kit does something on it's (...) (17 years ago, 6-Oct-07, to lugnet.technic)
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