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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 (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces —John Matthews
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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)
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| | | | | | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces —Steve Burge
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| | | | | | | (...) little (...) Hmmm... Time to dig out my Zoids and work out how they did it... Steve (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces —Ran Talbott
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| | | | | | | | (...) There's a scan of the instructions for a T-Rex-like Zoid at: (URL) like the standard Tomy walking toy mechanism: two flat feet with pins fore and aft that stick in past the centerline, so it can stand, semi-stable at least, on one foot. Since (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces —David Schilling
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| | | | | | (...) Oooh! What a cool idea! -- David Schilling (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Sports Uniforms (was Re: Technic windup motors...) —Tom McDonald
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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)
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| | | | | | | Re: Sports Uniforms (was Re: Technic windup motors...) —Ran Talbott
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| | | | | | (...) The Scala-scale mama cat from 3110 could be painted into a minifig-scale tiger. Much more useful than some costumed kid when things get really nasty on the field ;-) (...) Teal. But blue might be useful for fending off the hockey Sharks' (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Sports Uniforms (was Re: Technic windup motors...) —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | (...) Hmm.. maybe it could be just broom hockey for now ;-) (...) Maybe it's time to refresh my bumpersticker list[1] found at (URL)Which brings up a nagging question: anyone found a bulk source for soccer (...) Right now, probably the cheapest way (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Sports Uniforms (was Re: Technic windup motors...) —Maggie Cambron
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| | | | | | (...) Or you can go to the LEGO soccer truck when it comes to town. They had a whole area outside the trailer with about a dozen tables of 3409's set up for play. Because kids kept losing the balls they had a plastic bag (about the diameter of a (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Sports Uniforms (was Re: Technic windup motors...) —Ran Talbott
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| | | | | | (...) Been there. (...) Didn't do that :-( Given the rate at which purchasers are going to lose them, there just has to be a service pack in the offing... Ran (24 years ago, 1-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces —Ran Talbott
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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)
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| | | | | | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces —David Schilling
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| | | | | | (...) Your right. I don't have that set, so I hadn't seen it there. I stopped buying (juniorized) town unless it's unavoidable :-) (...) That's exactly right! Or, um, at least close. BTW, these 'pictures' were taken by putting the pieces on my (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces —Kevin Loch
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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)
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| | | | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces —Paul Baulch
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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)
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| | | | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces —Fredrik Glöckner
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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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| | | | | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces —John Matthews
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| | | | Here is your scan Fredrik. I hope Race comes to Norway soon! (URL) On! John Matthews Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:qrd4s682140.fsf....uio.no... (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Technic windup motors and other new pieces —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | (...) This is far better than I was hoping for, BTW. Looks like the motor connects via studs as well as technic pegs and axles. And the axle for the wheels slides through the whole motor, right? (...) Me too! Fredrik (24 years ago, 2-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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