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Technic windup motors and other new pieces
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Wed, 28 Jun 2000 07:14:48 GMT
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I just bought a Speed Dragster <set:6714> and a Rocket Dragster <set:6616>,
for the windup technic motors. I've been wanting something like this for a
long time!
Turns out that there are a couple of other new pieces in them that I've never
seen. In the Speed Dragster set, there are two blue, 1x4 versions of
<part:4865> (1) which is called a 'panel' in the partsref list. I've always
called them arm rests, for their normal use in vehicles, but whatever. Does
any other set have these in the 1x4 size?
The Rocket Dragster has a couple of interesting click-hinge pieces. One is a
combination of <part:30364> (2) and <part:30365> (3), with a single 'finger'
on one end, and a double 'finger' on the other. The other click-hinge piece
is a 2x2 version of <part:30364> (single 'finger'). Unfortunately, both are
in yellow.
The other thing that really interested me was the minifig shirts. The Speed
Dragster's minifig has one of the ugliest faces you can imagine (a Timmy
rival?!), but a very nice shirt - a blue shark. Maybe this has been in
another set before, but this is the first time I've seen it. And the Rocket
Dragster's shirt is a tiger.
See pictures of the new parts, as well as the minifig shirts at:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=760
and
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=762
Oh, and the windup motor works great! ("Pull back, let go" type, can't be
over wound.)
--
David Schilling
(1) or http://www.lugnet.com/cad/ldraw/parts/ref/search.cgi?q=4865
(2) or http://www.lugnet.com/cad/ldraw/parts/ref/search.cgi?q=30364
(3) or http://www.lugnet.com/cad/ldraw/parts/ref/search.cgi?q=30365
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Message has 6 Replies:
 | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces
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| I was impressed with the motor as well. I wonder if one could make a little windup toy that walked... Build On! John Matthews David Schilling <davidNO@SPAMsunteleia.com> wrote in message news:Fwus4o.2z@lugnet.com... (...) <set:6616>, (...) a (...) (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Sports Uniforms (was Re: Technic windup motors...)
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| (...) quality.. they just hafta be mascots. And using some imagination, mascot costumes could even be made (probly using piece surgery or some other non- purist form) from some existing animal figs, though a tiger might be currently out of the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces
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| (...) <set:6474> has a couple of these, too. Also in yellow, though. (...) Is that why you decapitated him before taking the picture? Afraid someone would be turned to stone by seeing it? :-) (...) Well, I guess I'm off to TRU to get one and try it (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces
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| (...) Yes! If you keep the model light it goes *amazingly* fast and far. I have always run out of surface before it ran out of speed. It also does some rather entertaining flipouts if it transitions from concrete to asphalt. I wish we had these for (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces
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| David Schilling wrote in message ... (...) Do you think it's feasible to connect them together so that they can be wound up simultaneously, and drive the same axle for greater power? That would be neat. (RACE hasn't come out where I live, so I (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces
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| (...) I notice that you call the motor a "windup technic motor". Does this mean that there are technic axles sticking out of the motor on which you can connect wheels? Or can you stick in an arbitrary technic axle? Can you also say something about (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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