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| As one who has spent alot of time in recent days complaining about the lack of new sets, I am thrilled with these new sets. I love the backhoe and I think the fire truck looks great too. Count me in to preorder these and get them as soon as Lego has (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| Its worth taking a close look at some of the other items on marz. 4481 (a Star Wars set) seems to have some interesting looking ring gears. (What might once have been referred to as Technic parts ;) I wonder what options will exist to attach things (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) That was also my first guess, but my second guess is that one knob would rotate the water cannon, and the other would steer the 3 axles. As for other mechanisms hidden in the back.... not sure, but I would hope that a large-ish technic model (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Agreed! I think those little sets are cute too. The truck seems to have a gear-driven dump mechanism, and the front end loader seems to have a gear-driven front bucket lifting/lowering mechanism. Prices appear to be 20 USD for the dump truck (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| Christopher, Excellent feedback, keep it comming. This way I can improve the software more easily. Otherwise I develop using mushroom theory (working in the dark). (...) Which OS are you using? (...) Both versions use the same code to display the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| (...) (URL) so they're both yellow and backhoe's with the large wheels). I will probably get one of these, at least for the pneumatics. I hope it's a Technic turntable in the back of that thing for the backhoe. The front bucket looks like a new (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| hi dug my observations are: #. whole sets are done using liftarms i read on this group i think that lego is going to build models only from liftarms so these models are good point to start with it if it's true - they are builded with no bricks at (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| I think Ahui is totally right here. Kids today just do not take interest in anything that doesn't involve a digital gun of some sort or another. The kids in my school, excluding my friends of course, like rap, video games, sex, drugs, and the like. (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Releasing sets like that is NOT the way to get me to reach for my wallet. The 3 small mini sets look acceptable though. As for the backhoe, its got some good points (the large quantity of Pneumatics for one) but the worst point is that it (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| I too, am very interested in making some interesting project with those gears. I am wondering if they will mesh with gears already produced or only work with the mechanism included with that set. Now to dream up something good to build with (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I hope it's not. A long pin or two vertically seperated hinges will work much better than a horizontal turntable. A hinge is often preferable in applications requiring a rotation of less than 180 degrees. The strenght of the hinge on a JCB (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Must be something wrong with your eyes. Extensive studies have shown that this optic green (think that's the name) is the most visible color over a wide range of viewing conditions. Red is a really bad color in the dark and at twilight. Most (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| A few observations about the new sets (now I've had the time to have a better look). First the fire truck. I've seen enough disaster movies to immediately recognize it as an airport firetruck. The color, oh well, maybe I'd prefer yellow or dayglow (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Maybe it controls the hose arm on top? (...) Looks like a hose. (...) I'd say definitely 6. (...) Very unlikely. But I don't think you need a tank when you're using the manual pump. (...) Looks like ordinary flex hose to me - dunno why it (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) The hose I most likely a thing for the non-existing (?) Technic figures to run around spraying with. The red bit is probably the noozle. The white thing in the back appears to be some sort of styling and a tan/gold disc can be seen. Perhaps (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| In lugnet.castle, Leonard Hoffman writes: Great post! (snipped it, but it's worth rereading...) I know some people don't like Orson Scott Card, and some do. But this book of his _How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy_ is chock full of good advice. (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| "Avi Parvin" <parvin@netvision.net.il> wrote in message news:H8B4pB.n5@lugnet.com... (...) (Don't (...) When the set is avaiable I will buy a few sets and try everything :) (Hope there is a tank in the set, because I dont have one yet) The fun with (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| Hello all, After reading all the threads of the original message, I would like to contribute my 2 cents, (before I’ll gladly give them, along with few hundred dollars more to Lego). 8454 – Funny how the more ugly set got more responds than the other (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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