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(...) Hi, Kevin. I originally gave a response here: (URL) I'll try to give some abbreviated comments again here. I guess my main gripe with the PP is that the two sets of wings are too close together (in my opinion the upper wings should be above (...) (26 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: My favorite Adventurer sets
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(...) Yes, they are called Tail Draggers because it appears that they are dragging their tails, not because they actually do. Tail Draggers are harder to take off in, you have to do a series of S turns in order to actually see down the runway. And (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.reviews)
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(...) Yes , they did have a skid of some type. I put the term "tail draggers" in quotes because I think that was the nick name of the style of landing gear, as opposed to the tripod or "tricycle" style which has a wheel under the front nose and two (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Is this a good price?
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(...) Nope, the normal price for 5978 is $49.99. See: (URL) to whether or not TLG is discontinuing Adventurers, there's two possibilities (more or less): 1: Most TLG themes lately have a two year life-cycle, implying that we've seen the last of new (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Is this a good price?
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Hi all, I came across a few sets of Adventures #5978 at Target the other day that were $27.00. That wasn't their normal price was it? And they weren't on sale either. It has over 300 pieces in it! I bought one set a few weeks back and I have no idea (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: My favorite Adventurer sets
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(...) They mostly had at least a skid under the tail. I can't think of a plane that actually dragged the back end of the fusalage and the trailing edge of the tailplane along the ground like the BB does. Those WWI and earlier planes were so lightly (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.reviews)
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(...) Some of the WW1 planes are "tail-draggers" On my LEGO models I add the LEGO piece thats looks like a 1x2 plate with two rods attached to either end. Lots easier on the tail : ) (...) you dont see the strings tied to the triggers? <grin> (...) (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.reviews)
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In lugnet.adventurers, David Eaton writes: {SNIP} (...) much (...) Being married to a WW-I aviation fan has its odd uses <grin>. The weapons were mounted above the wing in single-seat scouts (what we would call fighters) until Fokker invented the (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) For the most part, I have to agree with you. Whether or not it's accurate doesn't really matter that much to me on a scale like this. They get the point across that the thing is a WWI style plane with guns. Maybe if you're an avionics expert (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) People keep saying this, along witht he comments about standing up to fire the rifles and such. Am I the only one that used a little imagination here and decided that the 'rifles' on the BB were an attempt at representing Gatling guns or other (...) (26 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: 5905 and 5906
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(...) I don't know about other countries, but over here in Australia, just about every toy shop has them in stock. Benjamin Whytcross (26 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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If you really want to learn the comments of an aeronautical engineer (1), Both of them sucks separately. BB is much more realistic in terms of "real planes", though it really sucks with its lack of a lever, sloppy propeller connection and (...) (26 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Adventurers website
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[ XFUT lugnet.loc.dk ] Christian Lindblad Rasmussen (clr@dmi.dk) annoncerede sit Adventurers-websted: (...) hvem du er (meteorolog/fysiker/...mmør/...?) og hvad du bygger på for tiden? Leg godt, Jacob (der sidder i Paris for tiden) ---...--- -- (...) (26 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.loc.dk)
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| | Re: My favorite Adventurer sets
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(...) (26 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: 5905 and 5906
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Jason, I have seen 5906 Cheif Achku (or whatever he's called) only once at that was at a shop near me (UK) that was closing down. So I bought three sets? - I can let you have one maybe two if you like? Jakey(UK) (...) (26 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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I was just looking at the list of Jungle sets, and I've seen all of them except for these two small sets (5905 and 5906). Are these promotional sets, or S@H only, or are they available like any other set? If they are available like any other set, (...) (26 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: My favorite Adventurer sets
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(...) --snip-- (...) That's a good point. I don't have both models in front of me right now but I remember that I didn't like the bulky wheels of the BB. My original adequate.com review of the BB also mentioned something about the tail dragging on (...) (26 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Agree wholeheartly! I have converted the biplane into a two-seater. Then I put a female skeleton (i.e., skeleton with a wig) into the front seat, to stage that gruesome scene from the English Patient. (I tried using a mummy instead of a (...) (26 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.reviews)
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Joseph Gonzalez wrote (...) I have to disagree with you here, Joseph. The only thing I like about the Biwing Baron is the "rotary" engine ( a pity lego didn't make it actually rotate, though it's the work of only a minute or two to make it do so). (...) (26 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: My favorite Adventurer sets
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In lugnet.adventurers, Joseph Gonzalez writes: {{SNIP}} (...) Here I have a question NOT for the still pure of faith <grin>: Have you (or anyone) attempted 'surgery' via Dremel tool (or similar) to actually make a zepp out of this blimp? I make the (...) (26 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.reviews)
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