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Subject:	Re: DINOTRON: A cross-system hybrid MOC theme
Newsgroups:	lugnet.duplo
Date:	Sun, 2 Apr 2000 14:47:32 GMT
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Wow, those are AWESOME! I love that 2nd shot of the Kaimetsu, reminds me of Patlabor, with the pilots head sticking out. Very cool... Hope to see more... Mladen Pejic, over and out! http://tor-pw1.netcom.ca/~milovan/index.htm In lugnet.duplo, Todd Lehman writes: > [Not sure what ng's to crosspost this to . . . it's kinda a hodge-podge of > DUPLO and Star Wars and Castle and mecha stuff. I guess I'll go with that. > Followups to .duplo?] > > http://www.fibblesnork.com/lego/dinotron/ > > These were a lot of fun to make. Here's the secret: The backs of the DUPLO > dinos, it turns out, are regular DUPLO studs which perfectly accommodate 2x4 > and 2x6 LEGO SYSTEM bricks. But not only that, they also accommodate the new > 6x6x2 quad-inverse-slope SYSTEM bricks that come in the LEGO Star Wars sets! > And these enable the very quick conversion of a DUPLO dino into a SYSTEM dino! > > The minifigs are Blacktron I figs with Ninja heads and various other Castle > helmets. The rest of the parts come purely from LEGO Star Wars sets (one copy > of each 1999 & 2000 set, plus 5 additional parts that needed to be nabbed from > second copies of Naboo Swamp and Naboo Fighter.) > > --Todd

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		Re: DINOTRON: A cross-system hybrid MOC theme
(...) Well, glad you like them! Your pages of LDLITE-rendered mecha, BTW, were very helpful as well as inspirational. (...) OK, here's another look at Kaimetsu (back when he was named Zenkai): (URL) some other early test-photos... (URL) was back (...) (26 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.build.mecha)

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		DINOTRON: A cross-system hybrid MOC theme
[Not sure what ng's to crosspost this to . . . it's kinda a hodge-podge of DUPLO and Star Wars and Castle and mecha stuff. I guess I'll go with that. Followups to .duplo?] (URL) were a lot of fun to make. Here's the secret: The backs of the DUPLO (...) (26 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle) !

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