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  LEGO Cicada (bzzz...zzz)
 
I don't know if anyone has done one of these yet, but I was inspired to build a LEGO cicada after a cookout was infested with them last weekend. (2 URLs) Does the cicada noise remind anyone else of the DC Metro, or is it just me? The first time I (...) (20 years ago, 30-May-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) ! 
 
  Re: LEGO Cicada (bzzz...zzz)
 
(...) Marc, I have tons and tons of these around my apartment in Annandale, and yes, the Metro was one of the first things I thought of. The next was that I wanted to record the sound and use it as a spacedrive engine noise at some point, but I (...) (20 years ago, 30-May-04, to lugnet.build, FTX)
 
  Re: LEGO Cicada (bzzz...zzz)
 
(...) Very nice work!!!! I, too, have built a cicada, I just haven't gotten any pics yet. I used pieces from the Wild Collection set (409?/41??) released last year. Frankly, I think your use of minifig arms better reflects the legs of the little (...) (20 years ago, 31-May-04, to lugnet.build, FTX)
 
  Re: LEGO Cicada (bzzz...zzz)
 
(...) Well done, a very compact design. Great arms...eh, I mean legs ;-) With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (20 years ago, 31-May-04, to lugnet.build)
 
  Re: LEGO Cicada (bzzz...zzz)
 
(...) My first encounter with cicada culture was with their arch-nemesis, Cicada Killer, a yellow wasp that threatens people and stings the heck out of unsuspecting annual Cicada Okanagana. At this time you hear the other, deafening Cicada cry: the (...) (20 years ago, 31-May-04, to lugnet.build, FTX)
 
  Re: LEGO Cicada (bzzz...zzz)
 
(...) (laughs himself so hard he starts to cough) Anyway, it was about time that someone built a LEGO Cicada. That is a nice alternate usage for one of them newfangled LEGO Designer sets. You used the pieces from the creatures one, am I right? (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jun-04, to lugnet.build, FTX)

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