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Re: Technic 99
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lugnet.build
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Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:16:45 GMT
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"Jim Hughes" <hughesj@one.net> writes:
> 8446 Crane Truck avail Aug
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> In the Shop-at-home insert. A large green 6-wheeled
> crane. Overall pretty odd
I've only seen the image
http://www.pncl.co.uk/~huw/lego/reference/1999/technic/1999-04.jpg
which really makes me wonder how the thing works. If that some new
pneumatic elements? Or is it something completely new? The thing that
closes the grabber looks like a large suspender, which doesn't make
sense, I guess.
And the hubs, are they crome? The wheels look new too, but I wouldn't
be sure.
If somebody has more scans, please do announce them on the newsgroup.
Oh, and I don't mean to be nagging people, but I would really like to
see a scan of the "other" new model team set. Not the dragster, that
is, but the other one. The dragster can be seen on
http://www.kl.net/scans/catalogs/1999/c99am/c99am-30.jpg
Fredrik
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Technic 99
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| (...) This is now up at (URL) does seem to use the same windshield, wheels and doors as the 5571. Fredrik (26 years ago, 25-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: Technic 99
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| Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) Looks to me like the top end of the suspender rotates around the end of the triangular plate, so you get a spring grip effect instead of having to stop closing when you hit something. So perhaps there (...) (26 years ago, 26-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: Technic 99
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| I've got a different scan -- much more detail and easier to see. I put it on my web page (primitive, more a place to transfer stuff than a real web page). Check out (URL) must apologize in advance for the GeoCities junk that pops up). Just scroll (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Technic 99
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| Finally got a new US Technic catalog, and I had to wait entirely too long to see a 99 set in the stores, maybe if people actually bought the CyberSlam stuff the Lego rep would have had to put new technic stuff out earlier. oh well. ThrowBots 8500 (...) (26 years ago, 20-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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