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Yes, that's what I was thinking when looking at the scans of the new star wars technic droids. There doesn't seem to be a single studded brick in these sets! These sets look nice and have a great functionality but they don't _look_like_ lego at all. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Death of the studded brick
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(...) Dan, I think you're definitely overstating the problem. First off, the Star Wars sets you mention are Technic sets - which have always had far fewer bricks than System sets anyway. There are some things you just can't do with the brick. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Death of the studded brick
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D. Jezek wrote in message ... (...) wars (...) sets! (...) _look_like_ (...) reply (...) been (...) kind (...) new (...) who (...) been (...) Oh, I doubt studs are in danger of disappearing. Some of these new Technic sets are obviously responses to (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Death of the studded brick
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(...) It's not a new thing -- the trend was definitely there in 1996's <set:8422>. There's still beams with studs, but it's not the primary means of construction. (...) I don't think so. Technic may go more this way, but the system lines won't so (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Death of the studded brick
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) <set:8422>. (...) I was surprised at how many beams came with 8448. I agree. (...) part (...) Again I agree. System bricks don't connect to Duplo or Primo[1], right? [1][2] ...or should I call it Baby now? (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Death of the studded brick
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(...) System bricks do connect to DUPLO, but only 2xY bricks, fairly secure (the tube fits into the hollow in the DUPLO stud). DUPLO will also connect to System bricks (but not as well as the other way around). Unfortuanately, DUPLO baseplates don't (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
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