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| Hello Group, I've mentioned this one a few times, though now that it's done, I'm just not sure... somehow it's just not yet right. They always look different IRL. ANyway, hopefully someone has some suggestions as to how I might proceed. Consider (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Re: Mystery Mech spotted - OT
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| Who's talking mechs? You should -see- the size of our grasshoppers and locusts 'down under'. I'm thinking a 70t grasshopper may be a bit restrained actually. They crush cars, eat children, and certainly give the drop-bears a run for their money.... (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Super Saturday Project
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| Well, tomorrow is Super Saturday and I spent the other day taking pictures and making some instructions for the kids to use. I posted them on Brickshelf here: (URL) check them out and give me some feedback. I put them up Wed. but we had a tornado go (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
| | | | | Re: Mystery Mech spotted
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| (...) <snipped> (...) <snipped> Nerd hat indeed.... I was comparing a real life grasshopper to a real life locust -- in which case grasshoppers are 'basically' a smaller version of the critters. :) I wasn't drawing a Mech-to-Mech comparison and (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Re: Mystery Mech spotted
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| Sorry that link was (URL) <awood@iinet.net.au> wrote in message news:GLszG0.C4s@lugnet.com... (...) smidge (...) larger (...) here -(URL) rasshopper.HTM (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Re: Mystery Mech spotted
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| "Joel Jacobsen" <jacobsen@oar.net> wrote in message news:GLrM6t.KFw@lugnet.com... (...) yourself; (...) so I (...) Hmmm... (Adam puts on his nerd hat) The Grasshopper is -considerably- larger than the Locust. 70t vs. 20t? The stats for it are here (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Re: K'Nex Battlemechs
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| (...) I was right - I missed the thread. :) They're fairly good, yes, but eh... "it's not LEGO." Thanks for the link. Joel J (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
| | | | | Re: Mystery Mech spotted
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| (...) Naw, no interior, but I did think of it except that all the internals are what is holding the arms together. Also, I was keeping the wieght down so that the ball joints held up. (...) Yeah, that was the inspiration, especially with the arm (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Re: K'Nex Battlemechs
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| (...) Hey there, Joel! We've discussed this one once before: (URL) bad it's K'Nex....I'd definitely be interested if it wasn't. -Dave (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
| | | | | K'Nex Battlemechs
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| I don't recall seeing a post about this, but I was at TRU last night and saw that K'Nex has licensed for Mech Warrior. They had sets of the Mad Cat, Shadow Cat and Cauldron Borne at the store I was at. And they shoot nerf-like missles. :) Found it (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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