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Re: Age range 16+ (was: Re: 2000 Scans are Online!)
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lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:34:15 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kya Morden writes:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:56:36 GMT, Steve Bliss
> <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > It seems obvious the display stands and placards are there to appeal to older
> > builders, to make it clear that these are display pieces, not play sets.  And
> > because the sets would probably collapse from their own weight if the stands
> > didn't hold them up.  I wonder if the models are removable from the stands?  It
> > looks like they must lock together somehow, or the ships would tip onto their
> > noses.  But if there's a stand-lock, there could be an unlock.
> 
> 
> Well, theoretically, you could throw about four or five of those
> 2x4x6/8? weight bricks that came with some of the floatable boats to
> act as a counterbalance in the base of that stand.  As for keeping the
> thing actually on the stand, I guess you could so some technic beams
> and pins to act as support rods.  Don't know how well that would work,
> it should be interesting to see how these things stay on their stands.
> 
> Kya

Well I am 23, fell like I am much older! Working full-time at Meijers,
part-time at Mobile Medical Respose as an EMT and being a volenteer
firefighter, plus still going to school!

But I always make time to play with LEGOs!!!!!



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  Re: Age range 16+ (was: Re: 2000 Scans are Online!)
 
(...) I may be stating the obvious here, because most other people that read these posts have a much keener eye to detail than I do, but has anyone noticed that the bases of the stands are actually buit from normal sloped lego pieces. It appears (...) (27 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Age range 16+ (was: Re: 2000 Scans are Online!)
 
(...) Well, theoretically, you could throw about four or five of those 2x4x6/8? weight bricks that came with some of the floatable boats to act as a counterbalance in the base of that stand. As for keeping the thing actually on the stand, I guess (...) (27 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)

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