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Re: Where Have All the Studs Gone?
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Tue, 5 Dec 2006 00:42:16 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Allister McLaren wrote:
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Chris Phillips wrote:
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That is good advice, well-received, but which is sadly getting very hard to
follow. On a recent trip to my local LEGO Retail store, I asked the
employees if there were any sets with studded Technic beams, and they didn’t
even know what I was talking about. Eventually someone showed me 7905
which, despite being hidden far away from all the other Technic offerings,
was almost completely sold out. (Only one copy left in the whole store.)
The model looks great, and I almost bought it, except that I already had an
armful of Pick-a-Brick cups and a copy of Creator set 4956 in my sweaty
little hands by that point.
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Seems to me the best place to get studded technic is in non-technic sets. The
Dino attack helicopter, several exoforce sets, designer sets etc are all
appearing with at least some studded technic.
Otherwise, perhaps it’s time to update your skill-set and learn to use the
studless beams instead of just whinging about them.
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The studless beams have their place, but they are not a perfect replacement for
studded beams in all circumstances. A studded beam can almost always be used in
place of a studless one, but the reverse is not true. If I wanted to place
artificial roadblocks in my own way, it would be cheaper and easier to just
switch over to MegaBlocks.
And the NXT itself, being the top-of-the-line LEGO brick, doesn’t have a single
trademark LEGO stud anywhere on it. I was under the impression that MindStorms
was an offshoot of Technic, not Bionicle.
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I might be back there tomorrow, so maybe I’ll
have another chance to vote with the old wallet. (Voting with my feet for
the past 2 years doesn’t seem to have done much good.)
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Did you seriously think it would? :lmao:
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Excellent! You know I wouldn’t want you to have to go anyplace else for your
daily dose of good humor.
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Actually, I'd like to see your analysis of that statement. (...) I prefer to think of them as "challenges" rather than "roadblocks". (...) I'm not even sure studs CAN be trademarked. But their trademark logo is prominent on the front. (...) (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | Re: Where Have All the Studs Gone?
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| (...) whinge whinge whinge. It's not even a new whinge. The studdless 'debate' has been ongoing for years as far as I can tell. What's next? A whinge about Town Junior? (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Where Have All the Studs Gone?
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| (...) Seems to me the best place to get studded technic is in non-technic sets. The Dino attack helicopter, several exoforce sets, designer sets etc are all appearing with at least some studded technic. Otherwise, perhaps it's time to update your (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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