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(...) I understand your position, Allister, and appreciate your input, but the idea of building this Mech was more about having fun building and trying something truly " off the wall" than focusing on what could be done in reality. However, it (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) snip (...) Actually, Dave, I like your design quite a bit. So, you didn't take pains to get your legs at 270 degrees which I as a glutton for punishment did, big deal!I also think that your design would walk a lot better than mine. Your stuff (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Congrats winners! All deserving vignettes. And thanks for the honorable mention! Hoping to see another of these contests again soon! --Ry (19 years ago, 23-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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(...) Very nice! At first glance I notice a passing structural similarity to the (URL) Quadwalker,> of which I am also quite fond. I tried my hand at a (URL) tripod mech> a while back with, it must be admitted, less success than your design (it's (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) By that logic, humans would not be able to walk either. A tripedal unit could throw itself off balance, lift a leg, and catch itself in a more forward position--or balance itself on two legs before lifting a leg. I'm not claiming it's (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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I know this is posted to many many groups, but I really need people from all interests to help take this survey. There are so many members here at Lugnet yet I feared too few ever check the home page or .general. So, I plea with all of you to allow (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.sports, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.western)
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Ross Crawford wrote: download the building instructions>, including a PDF or the .lxf file. (...) Um, there is. eg (URL) I want to know is why don't any of the sets have those new cool 8x8 road plates that were in the (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) Very nifty. There's lots to like about this, but the problem i have with it is that a tripedal mecha in this configuration would never be able to actually walk. In order to do that it needs to be able to lift at least one leg in the air, which (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Hello all, I submit for your perusal ( and hopefully your approval :)! ) the Tripedal Assault Unit, or T.A.U. for short. deep link: (URL) T.A.U. is a long range fire support Mecha equipped with energy weapons only. It was designed to be able to (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space)
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(...) I agree with you Jeff, These parts are VERY small, paying 5 cents per part for parts that are only a fraction of the size of 2x4 bricks seems rather pricey. And then grouping the designs together.... As a town person, I am disappointed that (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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Felucia was a world teeming with fungal life-forms and immense primitive plants. Beneath the hazy canopies of the enormous pitcher plants and leafy growths is a surreal color-drenched landscape where an infantry unit of Republic scouts are on (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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(...) Having a manufacturing background, and having worked a little ops management.. the more SKU's you have, the more associated costs you're going to have (for example--just boxes alone: -more boxes to design and print--adds money to product, (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) It's not a matter of simply adding more numbers to the system. As was pointed out elsewhere, each new product brings added complexity to the system, as well as additional development costs. Designing and printing one box, for example, is (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) I think ones that used fixed burden accounting, yes, but many companies have switched to variable burden, or even Activity Based Costing. I believe the cost that LEGO fears lies elsewhere. FUT trimmed to just lugnet.dear-lego (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) Nice catch, John. You figured out what I saw pretty quickly too. Possibly, LEGO will be able to track the submission of an individual copyrighted model design like Nathan's SoL, but you never know. The cat's out of the bag, so we'll have to (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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(...) My congratulations to the winners, and to the organizers. This has been the most fun competition I haven't entered, ever! Finally a competition where the models are small enough that I can copy them, but still interesting enough that I want to (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette)
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(...) I work for a publisher here in NYC and one of the requirments from our Editor in Chief is 'keeping the sku count low' (number of different books we produce, not quantities of each title that we print). I'm not 100% sure this is the reasoning (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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. (...) How much does it cost to have some more numbers?! Tim (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) OK, so 2 + 2 will give us 5... We have access to the .lxf files, we have access to the means of ordering the sets individually. Basically, what we'll need to do is rip out the individual models we would like and then order them as a single (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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(...) I'm 80% sure (guesswise) that the reason is "we don't have enough SKUs"... This seems to me a sign of internal breakage, LEGO needs to fix their systems so they can have more SKUs without it costing them a lot more. (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) I like it a lot! You just got a preview of an idea that's been cooking up in my brain, thanks to Nathan for doing it unknowingly :-) Terry (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I have to agree. While I'm delighted with the idea of the lego factory sets and keen on getting the models that are available, I'm just not liking the prices. I don't make a habit of buying $40, $70, & $130 sets. $15-20 sets are more my speed. (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) Yes. I agree, and thats not including the fact that they are even more expensive in the UK. The price per piece might not be high but the sets are just too big. If each winner was an indiviudual set I might end up buying most of them over a (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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Hey Nate, This is great! One of the best vigs I've seen in a while. I love how you played with scales to give a forced perspective. Also, as with Jason, that application of R2 legs is inspired. Bruce (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Very well done. Play well, Jacob (who should give vignettes a try soon) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.space)
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(...) Awesome! You've captured the scene very well. I love the modifications you've made to the pod arms. I just tried it on one of mine. Very nice. I can finally get rid of the unsightly dark gray wrenches I was using! I also love the use of the R2 (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(2 URLs) I'm sorry Dave... Please let me know what you think! -- Nathan Wells (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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Like everyone else before me, I wanted to thank you guys for running the great contest and I want to sincerely congratulate everyone who entered! I had a blast doing my vignette and I'll make sure to participate if another contest comes along! Woot! (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette)
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Jeff Szklennik wrote: -snip- (...) -snip- I'd like to voice agreement with this. Personally, I drop about ~$20 on LEGO every pay day. I don't drop more as I can afford more each pay day, and I dont save up to buy more (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) I too would like to add my thanks. The contest was great and the entries amazing. I hope we will see another contest in the near future. Brian (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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(...) I just wanted to add my thanks to the organizers for running the competition. All the entries were great and I feel honoured to have been awarded first place. Now I'm looking forward to building some more Joe Vig vignettes (so Joe had better (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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Now that the Joe Vig contest is over, I have my own new Joe Vig vignette to present: Joe Vig In Shelob's Lair. (2 URLs) Look out, Joe!!! -- Nathan Wells (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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(...) Thank you for running it! And congratulations to Greg- that really is a great one. I love the hull shaping. Nice work on all of the entries- this was a great contest. (2 URLs) Tony Hafner (URL) www.hafhead.com> (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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(...) One thought came to mind as to a "Why"- Star Wars minis. There are still, what, one or two more years left till the Star Wars licence ends? When the Star Wars line does come to an end TLG will have to fill the store shelves with something and (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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Hi Brendan, love your work. But that human sacrifice story is gruesome. (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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Cool! Thanks for running this contest, guys, and congratulations to the winners and all the participants! This was a really fun contest, with lots of great MOCs. Bruce (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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(...) I concur, it was the prod I needed to start vignettes and I had a brilliant time, building and seeing the other entries. Hopefully the vignette ideas currently upstairs can one day see the light of day. Anita (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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In lugnet.build.vignette, Nelson Yrizarry wrote: And again, a very big "Thank you" to all who (...) Nathan and Nelson thanks for running such a fun contest and raising the profile on not only Joe, but vigs themselves! Looking forward to the next (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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(URL) The .vignette curators have reviewed all of the entries, and would again like to thank all of those who have entered "The First Joe Vig Contest" here on LUGNET. We have had some excellent entries, and would like to hereby award the following (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.build.contests, FTX) !!
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(...) I think the size of those PDF files, there should be an indication on the download page so that people on dialup know it's gonna take a while. ROSCO (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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