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Re: The Lego Beretta just won't die
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:51:29 GMT
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> 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)
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> 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...
:-) http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=6564
unfortunatley, 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-
> 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.
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> Kudos for you anyway! Its always nice to see Lego get positive attention,
> no matter the circumstances.
>
> cheers!
> J "..." K
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