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Re: 10 Starship Designs
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Date: 
Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:05:50 GMT
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Jamal Coleman <Mothergrimm@cs.com> wrote:
> achieve a specific vision a certain creative freedom is used to get the
> desired effect and result.  Could you actually build it?  Well, no, but then
> again I'm quite certain that people who build my starships have heard of
> welding and cutting, so that makes it OK.

Sure, but isn't that missing the fun of building with Lego? I mean, if
you're not going to work with the medium, why not just use modeling clay?

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  Re: 10 Starship Designs
 
(...) I quite agree. Chopping and cutting is well....almost cheating. Besides the fact that I have to wonder *who* would have enough of a particular part to go cutting stuff up like there's no tomorrow, it seems merely a copout. The real challenge (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)
  Re: 10 Starship Designs
 
I couldn't disagree with you more Matthew. I'm 29, I'm an AFOL, my poor legos sat in their box for years, unused. Then one day I got them out for my kids and got the bug again but didn't have the pieces to build the things I wanted and with two (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)

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  Re: 10 Starship Designs
 
Chuck, I wouldn't go so far as to say it's an illegal construction. Sometimes to achieve a specific vision a certain creative freedom is used to get the desired effect and result. Could you actually build it? Well, no, but then again I'm quite (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)

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