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Re: Crashing your Lego creation safely...
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Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:16:51 GMT
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To All,
> > I've pondered the idea of crashing the model outside on a cement
> > patio. This would create a much more realistic crash than say
> > a carpet crash site. The impacting pieces would most likely
> > suffer scratching and I venture to guess several plate pieces would
> > snap against the unforgiving forces of cememt.
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> It's been a while since I've ever done anything like this, but as a 12
> year-old I remember wrecking my Deep Freeze Defender on several occasions. • I
> used to launch it across the room in an arc, leaving it to drop at least • 4-5
> feet on a medium thick pile carpet. The only potential problem was that of
> losing pieces; the scattered in a pretty wide radius. No broken legos or
> anything.
Well I have had numerous experiences involving dropping everything, from
buildings to ships to trains to boats to vehicles. You name it, I dropped
it. I used to have my entire LEGO collection upstairs in our attic, where we
had a draw down ladder to get it, and it was a good 8-10 feet from the
floor, and upon transporting various items from the building area to the
attic, I dropped things. It was a carpet floor, but it still made it shatter
like glass. Pieces everywhere. No broken parts, however. Scratches every now
and then, simply because of physics.
I also used to get bored, and I did what I called endurance tests, on
numerous vehicles. I would take cars, trucks, etc. and push them downstairs
to see if they would break or not. I had a non-minifig car that I could
never get to break apart. I also took some spaceships and threw them, to see
if they survived or not. I also did planes as well, and even helicopters. In
all my experiences, I have never had parts break. I do enjoy throwing a
passenger plane directly into the wall and watch it smash apart. : )
As for cement, I did have an occurance once with my ADF-800 series fighter.
It happened when I was taking it to my fiancee's house to show it to her. I
got out to my driveway, tripped, and it flew and crashed, hard. It probably
got some stratches with it, but I don't recall. That ship has been destroyed
a lot! It took me about twenty minutes to rebuild it, but I did find all the
pieces. No broken ones then either.
I don't know if you have done this kind of thing before, but I can safely
say it is hard to break parts, especially the usual bricks and plates,
because of the properties of molded ABS. Some of the newer antennas,
roadsigns, etc. are another story.
Scott "Yes, I like destroying things" S.
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| (...) I have finally determined the UH-60 L crash site will be a carpeted wide walkway at my job. It's got that thin industrial carpet and directly underneath is concrete. Hard yet with a not-so-abrasive-to-piece thin carpet layer. The area is wide (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| (...) It's been a while since I've ever done anything like this, but as a 12 year-old I remember wrecking my Deep Freeze Defender on several occasions. I used to launch it across the room in an arc, leaving it to drop at least 4-5 feet on a medium (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)
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