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Re: The Lego Beretta just won't die
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Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:17:47 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jeff Boen writes:
> Anyway... just wanted to share that I've managed to exposed 10's of thousands
> of people to the AFOL community in the last two weeks. Tons of them have said
> "I'm going to dig my Lego out of my parent's attic!". That makes me feel good.
wow. I am stunned.
Its really cool that so many people seemed interested in your gun design,
but I don't know what to say without sounding negative. I don't want to
seem rude because it isn't a *bad* design, and I'm not against firearms at
all, but why are people going nuts? (if your claims are to be believed, and
they *are* backed up by others, I guess they are)
Five or six things a week get posted to Lugnet or Brickshelf that are leaps
and bounds more sophisticated than this design, and the only thing I can
tell that is causing the stir is that your design is a gun and gun-nuts dig
it for being "hip and strange" or something. Part of the stir might come
from a misleading bit I saw that read "... actual working Beretta made from
Lego..." Now it was probably referring to your working locking and firing
mechanism (which is pretty well done), but non-Lego people probably see your
gun and think that if they build one, it will actually fire or something...
oh well, PT Barnum was right. I hope I don't sound negative, I'm actually
not... I am just *stunned* that so many people are interested in a gun MOC.
Kudos for you anyway! Its always nice to see Lego get positive attention,
no matter the circumstances.
cheers!
J "..." K
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| snip (...) :-) (URL) these hardly got any attention at all when I posted them, oh well, maybe if I modeled them to look like a real gun they would have been better appreciated. :-/ Later, -Geordan- (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | The Lego Beretta just won't die
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| Last week someone in the world posted the Lego Beretta Series 92 9mm pistol that I built over a year ago on www.fark.com. (URL) page typically gets like 20 hits a week. Lately it's getting over 8000 a day. And many of these people have been pointed (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general) !!
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