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> Interesting rant Harvey, but I take offense to a couple of things you mention in
> it.
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> > The Bionicle stuff is total limitation on one's
> > creativity (at least in my opinion) I know that had Bionicle been marketed
> > to us in 1986, my then 11 year-old self would have sneered at LEGO® for
> > making sets which 'don't fit in with my other stuff'.
>
> 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.
Hey Dave, my Cankerworm uses Bionicle in the neck! (Shameless plug #2!!!)
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=6176
I'm outta here!
Later,
Bryce
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