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Re: Where Have All the Studs Gone?
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Tue, 5 Dec 2006 01:12:32 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Chris Phillips wrote:
   In lugnet.dear-lego, Allister McLaren wrote:
   In lugnet.dear-lego, Chris Phillips wrote:

   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.

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.

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.

Actually, I’d like to see your analysis of that statement.

   If I wanted to place artificial roadblocks in my own way, it would be cheaper and easier to just switch over to MegaBlocks.

I prefer to think of them as “challenges” rather than “roadblocks”.

   And the NXT itself, being the top-of-the-line LEGO brick, doesn’t have a single trademark LEGO stud anywhere on it.

I’m not even sure studs CAN be trademarked. But their trademark logo is prominent on the front.

   I was under the impression that MindStorms was an offshoot of Technic, not Bionicle.

Are you asserting that studless = bionicle?

ROSCO



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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 (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)

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