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| (...) Thanks for having me as a judge, and for all your efforts. The creativity and variety was great. I'd like to say that this was a difficult set of MOCs to judge, and there were a lot of entries I saw that I really liked. In the constraints of (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) He means the Knight's Kingdom (action fig) joints. I wouldn't avoid them. They're nice and strong and bloody useful. Really the legs just look a little small for the arms, if you used the joints again in the legs and covered the actual hinge (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| Congrats Stafford! First a mention on the SciFi wire, and now this. Kudos to "Ironmecha Stafford", as you should be addressed from now on. I also must dole out some kudos to Fradel because I called him out to enter, and he beat me like a red-headed (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Hmmm, good explanation. If we're equating 'self-consistency' with 'realism' then I agree with you. A good mecha design is not going to have any 'out-of-place' details. I guess I misunderstood your initial argument. but on the other hand: (...) (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Sorry, not up on the lingo - What is a KK2 hinge? So that perhaps I can avoid them next time. Appreciate the compliments. Congratulations to every entrant, especially the winner's circle. (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Philip K Dick, among countless others, has also addressed this. His distinction between sci-fi and fantasy was similar but more fundamental: if an element of the story is considered impossible, then it's fantasy. Not "improbable" or "currently (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) This is like the difference between Fantasy and Science Fiction, which I often like to explain. :-) Science Fiction requires some intellectual rigor and logic. You can certainly make up weird new science, but it has to be self consistent. (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) I don't have enough experience to be up to a serious discussion on this point, beyond the subjective platitude of 'if I like the way it looks then it's a good mecha'. I mean, the only lego mecha I've seen in real life are my own! But: I'm not (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| With this collection of creations arrayed here, I think it would be interesting if we had a discussion on what we each think defines a good mecha model. My favorites in the list seem spread all over the place, so I must have different notion. Mecha (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| I won? How in the heck did that happen? Wow! Thanks judges... the cheques are in the mail! :) What a week! My Cthulego gets Boingboinged, then that's picked up by the Sci-Fi Channels Sci-Fi-Wire website then I'm contacted by Bizarre magazine who are (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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