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(...) Thanks Kevin, no this is my first Mecha, it was fun, but really I don't know what those Mech guys see in this stuff. (...) LOL! All of that then he said 2 2" hoses! LOL! (...) Oh no, those came in the Battrax. But I had to add 69 monkey arms (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) WOW! Yah, that's about the only word for it, Wow! Perfectly sized for the bots you have made and for minifigs. Someone else said that it doesn't even look lego, I agree. It's so well designed and tightly put together. No piece there can be (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Very cool indeed. I want to have one and hold one for my very own. If you're doing any more, I think a bot destruct test bay would be neat. Allister (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for shoing that even train parts aren't completely useless ;) I'm gonna be seeing that head every time I look at that train from now on. (...) Two days?! Man, I reckon you could churn these out in your sleep. How else could you maintain (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I bought a Scorpion Palace recently at deep discount, and the elephant reminded me of a mech I saw on Brickshelf that used the body parts this way. I'm buggered if I can remember who's it was though. Allister (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Amazing...your mocs are so distinctive. The Diagnostic bay doesn't even look lego to me, and a great moc is backed up by great photography. These are certified grade-A, smack free mocks. Keep up the great work. -Keith p.s. don't leave these (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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As with most of your creations, the colour usage and detailing is just perfect. I especially like the diagnostic centre; very anime in look. Are you going to do any more of these? I'd love to see a "bot plant" built around all of the assembly areas. (...) (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Dude, Soren. This rUleZ! Totally! Love the look of these, especially the second one. Very creative and nice. The forges look kinda modular- do you have any plans to link a bunch of these together and make a building or something? -JHK (20 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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(...) Soren, if you could make these so they folded up and could be stowed in your pocket, well that would be the bomb. Like an xpod bot forge in your pocket. Really I very much like these a lot of time very good things like it nice cool zit zot (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I can add those. You gotta speak up, the links don't add themselves! Good point though, two good builders. ;) e (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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'Cause bots don't just pop out of the ground: (URL) BOT FORGE 01: Final Assembly (URL) BOT FORGE 02: Diagnostic Center Enjoy. Soren (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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(...) How can thee lugnet.build.mecha News Group Reader User Guide when you left out two very important people from the builders list 1) Yutaka Minowa "Mino" who is a genuis just click on the link and his work speaksfor itself (URL) and B) This guy (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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You are a crazy mo-fo...all those jar-jar heads and snowshoes...I don't know how you do it. Seriously E, the train/head rocks...you continue to amaze. Another great addition to your mechasylum. -Keith (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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The lugnet.build.mecha News Group Reader User Guide has been completed. lugnet.build.mecha (URL) News Group User Guide The goal of the User Guide is to familiarize new and current readers with the norms found in this newsgroup. Tips on posting, tips (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) The (URL) "What-is-Mecha?"> section of the lugnet.build.mecha User Guide is 90% completed and I am writing the remaining sections now. Parts Library images and other revisions are fourth comming. Eric Sophie co-curator lugnet.build.mecha (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) It's been awhile since i posted on here but I just had to comment on your bot. Very Cool! You have become an expert. And I also have to ask what was the inspiration for using the dino bodies as shoulders and legs? :) (20 years ago, 1-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) but how many Clickits will there be? (...) Esoteric, hardly It's from the Simpsons. the episode where the B-Sharps feature. Barney decides to take Babershop to "Strange new places". In Moe's Tavern his Japanese conceptual artist girlfriend (...) (20 years ago, 1-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) It's good to see that I'm still known. (...) You are definitely right, I think I'm gonna lurk around a bit more... although I've moved on to an art form that isn't limited by Gravity. Oz (20 years ago, 1-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Nice Mech man. Have you done this before? (...) I'm glad to see you're getting back into pneumatics. I'm hoping to buy a Star Destroyer at BrickFest for cheap. I hear it's got 435,231 T's, 237,465 switches, 4 pistons and 2 2" hoses. Awesome! (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) You got it all right. Except for the 29,003 right side wedge plates. Ok the hips are a simple worm gear set up using technic triangle plates and worm gears paired to 24 tooth gears. 2x4 plates with technic holes secure them. See here: (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Hey wow, Oz, good to hear from you! (...) Thank you, thank you. (...) I do! Don't go away! This group needs all the support it can get, we make this place what it is. Nobody ever forget that! (...) e (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Thank you! I always enjoy hearing from you TM. Mecha on the brain. Really, I enjoy looking towards the future. So that is why I build Mech. I believe in a time when we learn to master this kind of technology. Lego, puts the raw essentials in (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) You got me, I fluffed it a little. But really its seven feet tall! Really it is. Ya-huh. (...) The Mech is straight forward. I think there is a bit of elegance involved in making it functional yet estetic. Using 790,000 left monkey arms is no (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) snip (...) You did a great job with the (URL) photo> e. It was like a clinic in big-mech joint-tech. I could make out what looked like a worm gear-large gear pairing for the "jumping-jack" movement of the shoulders, throwbot gear boxes for the (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Great Job Sir Eric. It's always great to see what you do with the good brick. (I wonder if anyone remembers who I am... well, time to disappear again). Oz (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Dude, you've got the fever. the Mecha Fever. And frankly, I don't think you should be cured, for if you were, we would never see creations such as this. I really liked the World City train head, and the light-up eyes. Not that Mecha design was (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Dude, stop lying. I counted no more than 750,000 monkey arms. And you're still about 200,000 fig parts short of 1 million. I counted. You're just showing off, liar. Seriously though, coooooool I like that head piece. Fits your style nicely. (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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C'mon!, You know I had too! (URL) The 4511 Mechsperiment> (URL) Some time ago, I just knew what I had to do. So finally did it. (URL) I used 1 million Mini-figs in this seven foot tall Mecha. It features 780,002 left monkey arms and 425 left white (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Ha! You can't trick me into buying one of those sets. Allister (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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The best use that i could think of when i first saw them was magazines/clips for weapons on mechs. I still havent experimented with that. (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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The July 2004 Mecha Part of the Month is brought to us by Mecha Builder (URL) MC7>. technic,axle joiner rectangular triple spring loaded (URL) in sets.........3540 ,3541 ,3542 ,3545 ,3543 ,and 10127 This unussual part comes in the Hockey Sets. The (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Allister- This thing is just cool. As e said, "the whole thing just gels." I could picture this with a handful of its brethren pitted against a PCS command post (similar to a scene from DuckTales that plays in the intro. No, i haven't been (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) A lot of influences showed up in the Spartan--certainly the Marauder, but also the Cauldron Born (arms and missile packs), a little bit of Gundam in the different slopes on the feet/ankles, and some Metal Gear Rex influence in the cockpit (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, man! I didn't set out to do the solid canopy on either one, but somehow it just happened. (...) I just got fired up with school spirit, which led to the unusual colors. They were both fun builds. (...) Long live the Lenny shot! (...) (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Damn you, damn you straight to hell! You are making the rest of us bulky mech builders look bad! Jealousy aside, i REALLY like the spartan. The legs are massive! It looks kinda like a marauder, with horrible leg fat. The color scheme is (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Kyle Vrieze wrote: -snip-> (...) Coolness! I think the solid canopies rock! Like it could ram something with its nose and still have transparency from within the cockpit. (...) I like the size, the colors and the style of (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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EFO Industries is proud to present g.h.i.z.m.o.!©, gYROSTATIC hUMANOID iNTELLIGENT zINGY mOBILE oBJECT: (URL) g.h.i.z.m.o.! is a diligent bot that is versatile and capable of carrying out a plethora of tasks, from directing traffic to helping you (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! Count me among those interested in seeing more joint tech examples. Eric has certainly done his part in that regard, but in the scale I like to build in, I just don't know if the worm-gear-box joint is workable. (I know, I should get (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! (...) I hope I stay on the good side of that fine line between having a style of my own and repeating myself. Suggestions and constructive criticism are always appreciated! Something I usually like to do on humanoid mechs is use some (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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