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Re: IRON MECHA Results!
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:46:29 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Bobby Marinov wrote:
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Hmmm... Science Fiction has little to do with reality. Allow me to use my
absolutely most favorite sci-fi space ship, Imperial (Imperator) Class Star
Destroyer...
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Sorry, but Star Wars isn’t science fiction.:-) Really, it isn’t. The technology
is contrived for the sake of the story, which is why it’s unrealistic. The space
ships have windows! Cap ships exchange broadsides a few feet away from each
other! Dramatic but absurd. It seems realistic because they are familiar
terrestrial concepts, but they are inapplicable. Read true science fiction and
you’ll have an image of a realistic space battle. Even old fashioned sci-fi like
EE Doc Smith had a better grasp of space battles. Star Wars so pales by
comparison, it’s... staggering, even though it rips off many if its ideas from
him. These are the sci-fi concepts the “Doc” invented, in the 1930’s!:
Science Fiction
Inventions I think I’ve read all his books. :-)
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So is it fantasy or sci-fi makes no difference to me, and please don’t let me
go into Gundams and how ridiculously improbable it is to build one with
current technology (hence, fantasy, the idea behind new materials that will
allow cheap mobile suit construction).
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If you had a compact fusion powerplant you’d have no problem building virtually
any kind of anime mecha with current technology (materials, computers, joint
actuators...).
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Best Color Design,
Best Copy of Image,
Most “Playable” (Sturdy to handle by kids)
Best microscale
Best minifig scale
Best large
and why not,
Most realistic/believable
Most unusual brick use (example: helm visors for armor plating / brick
separator for legs)
why have all these categories? Because we all interpret mecha differently.
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I’m not sure it could still be described as a contest then. Everyone would win.
;-) But if that’s what it takes to encourage building, then that’s good.
K
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| (...) Hmmm... Science Fiction has little to do with reality. Allow me to use my absolutely most favorite sci-fi space ship, Imperial (Imperator) Class Star Destroyer. I love Star Destroyers, I drool over any image of a Star Destroyer, however, at (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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