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Dave Johann at hardcoredj@techie.com wrote:
> Limiting on creativity? Wow! I guess you haven't been reading .build.mecha
> lately. Mech builders continually strive to push the limits of creativity well
> beyond what the pieces sold to us are usually used for. Two of the best
> examples
> of this were posted in the past few days-Mladen Pejic's mecha-Tortoise and
> Mark
> Sandlin's LM-5 Aerial Assault Mecha.
I appreciate the nod, but I used absolutely no Buy-onicle parts whatsoever
in my latest mecha. I used the ball and socket bits from C-3P0, and I used
two ball bits that I chopped off the end of those useless throwbot arms.
(Egad!)
In a related rant, I noticed that Mega Bloks have three new Block Bots on
the shelves. Each one comes with a Bot and a companion animal/beast. Yeah, I
know the quality isn't there, but when you hold up a $20 Block Bot and a $20
Mars mech thing, the Block Bot looks like something a kid would be much more
impressed with.
~Grand Admiral Muffin Head
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Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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| (...) well (...) "useless throwbot arms" That's exactly what Dave was saying not to do. Why destroy a piece when you can work around it? I didn't have to chop off any pieces from my Bionicle ball-joint arms; I incorporated them into the design. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Interesting rant Harvey, but I take offense to a couple of things you mention in it. (...) If their formula had continued to be a winning one throughout the '90s, Lego would have continued to use it. I prefer to look at it as 'they held on as (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.build.mecha)
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