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| | | Guys, It's been a whole year since I have had the Mantis Standing. It's really busted. It's dusty, broken, sun bleeched, and loaded, loaded, loaded with useful parts. I have already raided parts from it. Most of the legs have literaly broken, the (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.build) !
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| | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Adrian Drake
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| | | | | Take it apart. Lego, as a medium, is designed specifically to be recycled into new creations (where other artwork mediums are more permanent). I look forward to seeing what else you can build with those pieces! Good luck Adrian -- (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | True!, I just have reservations about taking the darn thing apart. I spent $1800 aquiring parts for it and I made it from 1995 to late 1997. It would be like losing a good friend. But only to make another or two or three. Thanks. Legomaster (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Joel Kuester
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| | | | | (...) *snip* (...) *snip* (...) Hi, How is this a tough decision? You have clearly put a lot of thought into taking it apart. You have bleached it for parts, and it doesn't work anymore. You sound very unhappy with it as it is now. Sounds like you (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | Joel thanks for your input, I appreciate it comming from a great builder like you, although your advice seems a little abrasive. You rasie good points, and I know what you mean, it's sort of like I'm asking if it's "okay" to take it apart, I know. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Joel Kuester
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| | | | | | (...) hiya, Sorry if I come across as abrasive... I didn't really didn't intend it to be. I was just responding spontaneously and with complete honesty. I guess that stems from my experience during art critiques over the years. I really don't (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | Hey Joel, It's cool, I appreciate your comments. Like I said maybe one day I could sit and talk with you about some of this stuff, I value your opinoin, thanks man! Eric Legomaster (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Joel Kuester
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| | | | | | (...) Okay, I am glad you understand I meant no harm... I am very straight-forward, and I strive to live without mis-conceptions of reality. I really respect you as a builder, and I am in awe of your enthusiasm for The Brick, so I wanted to say (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Brian Sadowski
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| | | | | Hi Legomaster, I'm not sure what you would want to do with the Mantis, but I can tell you how I deal with taking my creations apart. I've build a bunch of things which I was really proud of, and my first big creation was an automated turret which (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | Brian, if I take away all the mixed feelings, when I look at they advuce you gave, you are so right. Dang why wasn't I born a Vulcan! These thought mean alot to me thanks, plus I see the truth of it. Very well said. Thanks! Legomaster (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | (...) How about this: I've been edging towards taking FdG apart for the last two months. In solidarity with your impending disassembly, I'll begin in earnest this weekend. Hey, you can build a Classic Space factory with that stuff! :D best LFB (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | LFB, so you to ponder the take apart of a grand creation. Looks like there is wisdom to the sacrifice. Maybe we oughta have a Gardenslug meeting and help eachother take them apart, sort of like a mid-wife during birth! Legomaster (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | | | (...) This made me think. You build stuff and share it with an audience. Some of us get up close and take pictures and really try to figure out how you did some particular assembly. It's often all about the sharing of your work, right? How better to (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | (...) Well, it's a bit late. :D The ship's now about 65% disassembled; everything above the AD in all but the frontmost section. All the turrets and bridgework are sorted back into their bins. It's amazing, because I only started about 8 hours ago. (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Anthony Sava
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| | | | | In lugnet.build, Eric Sophie writes: <SNIP> (...) Hey Eric, I say disessemble it. I know that my dragons will one day be taken apart, mainly because they monopolize half of my lego collection. Admitedly, I won't take apart their heads, they'll just (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | Yo! Thanks! So you'll keep the heads, interesting, and the temtation of the good parts sings to you too. Beleive me it helps to know how you would deal with this. Many thanks. Legomaster (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Anthony Sava
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| | | | | | | (...) Yes... like some grotesque comic book bounty hunter, I shall keep their heads on a shelf. They shall stare at me longing to once again be whole. But only in the virtual reality of LDraw shall they remain, cataloged for the ages long past their (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | (...) I've thought about this issue for a day. I think Joel has thought about it much longer. (: First I asked, do I have any MOCs that have survived? Good luck. I just moved and have not unsealed the boxes yet. The funny thing is, the MOCs I've (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Mark Neumann
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| | | | | ug, this is the bitter sweet part of Lego for me as well. I'll put myself into the Lego, it's what part of what makes the end result so cool. But, I also know, no matter how cool, there's something else that needs to be built. Something inside titan (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | ====Eric (...) ====Oh the Titan, Hmmm, I see, maybe something to evolve into. (...) ====light, dark, chaos and life. (...) ====oh man that is so true! Thanks, I needed to hear that! (...) ====Thank you, my Shaman. (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Thomas Jost
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| | | | | Poor Eric! I understand your pain. I've just restarted into LEGO a short while ago and really can't imagine taking apart one of the things I've built. But all the nice LEGO-parts used in the models are too important to leave them "unused", so be (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | Thanks Thomas! True, I struggle toi find certain parts and there they are just sitting in another creation that is slowly heading down hill, I shall suffer no more, apart comes the Mantis!!! Legomaster (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | (canceled) —Amy Hughes
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| | | | | | Re: The Mantis - To take apart or not take apart? —Eric Sophie
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| | | | Yes! Just a "Shadow" of it's former self. What's a daddy to do?!! Thanks Amy, Legomaster (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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