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Re: Hey everybody: A few things...
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Fri, 24 Aug 2001 01:30:13 GMT
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Colin,
What's up? It's good to know you're still here. I too have enjoyed seeing
this group grow over the 2 years I've been here. You will always be one of
the Original Mecha Builders. (that's OMB kids. Our new mecha catch phrase).
Thanks for checking in.
Bryce
> In lugnet.build.mecha, Colin R. Gutierrez writes:
> (Sorry if any of this sounds long-winded or "speechy" or anything. Just
> pent-up after reading from work without email for several weeks.) :]
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> Hi all, popping my head in for a moment. My current job has me
> commuting to work for eons and staying with my GF most evenings, so I
> haven't been building much, but I have been working on getting photos up
> from my last building spree a couple of months ago.
> I can't comment individually, but...GREAT WORK you all are doing. I've
> really enjoyed looking at all the excellent stuff everyone's been
> building, and some of it even makes me wonder if I still rate. ;]
> Seriously though, I think as a sub-community of AFOLs, we've grown so
> much in the last three or four years. I remember when we didn't have
> enough material to fill a website, and now we even have our own group on
> LUGnet. Kudos.
> On the issue of credit: I appreciate when credit is given, and always
> give credit on the rare occasions I borrow something. Of course, that
> doesn't account for parallel ideation or convergent evolution or
> whatever you want to call it, I know it happens...Take the airplane for
> example.
> The credit issue is one of degree I suppose. I don't mind very much
> when someone just uses a leg design that I did over three years ago,
> it's out there, kind of public domain. On the other hand, a few weeks
> ago when I surfed across an almost perfect black replica of my F-86
> Starsaber without a single mention of my name...that was very
> disconcerting. Use your best judgement I guess.
> On design: There seems to be a bit of confusion on some people's parts
> about how a mecha should look...Personally, I like that everybody builds
> them differently. If everyone built one style of mecha, it'd get kinda
> boring in here. I like to build conservative, clean-lined mecha like
> that of the original Macross type. But that doesn't mean I don't also
> appreciate the "Extreme" anime style of today with tons of spiky things
> sticking out everywhere, or the boxy "post-Harmony Gold" FASA style
> mecha. I like it all, so let's try to encourage talented newbies to
> build in their own style, not tell them to fit in to one of ours. :]
> CAD vs. real LEGO: I envy those with computers fast enough to use CAD
> or patient enough to work without a mouse (I use a 486/DX50.) I do
> admire a RL model much more though. Not only is there the psychology of
> knowing you could actually touch it and whoosh it, but it's more
> impressive a feat when you can make a model look good without having
> theoretical parts that have never been produced, such as trans-blue 2x3
> inverse slopes, etc. Then again, if I get a new computer and/or they
> come up with a good mouse-driven CAD program for LEGO, I'm there.
> Megabloks: Have you seen the Legends Blok Bots or whatever they're
> called? They're the ones that come with a humanoid mecha and a "beast"
> mecha. IMO, they are 6x10^24 times cooler than anything "mecha" that
> LEGO has attempted. *sigh* If they would only switch to ABS and cut
> their QC mold tolerances by a few microns, I think LEGO would go under.
> Finally, to all the new guys: Welcome, sorry I missed you on the way
> in! I've been lurking around your stuff and it's wizard! (Oh, you know
> where I heard that first? Not Star Wars. It was one of my favorite
> movies, CHITTY-CHITTY BANG BANG! Seriously!)
> Thanks for listening everybody, and sorry this was so long winded.
> Take care. :]
> --Colin
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| Thanks Bryce. Never too many acronyms for lugnet! :] I just posted a little update. Much more to come. See ya! --Colin (...) __ __ __ __ __ __ | |_| |_| |_| | | |_| | | | Brick Engineer | | | Colin R Gutierrez | __ __ __ __ | 2001 | |___...___|| |_| (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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