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Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:39:08 GMT
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> In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
> > The time lab is actually a fairly decent set
Yes! Great big blue plates with a half BURP-half Armada base has been the
inspiration of many Pirate forts!
(though the Flying Time Vessel is pretty decent also).
A good start for those of us unlucky enough to start collecting after the
Pirates sailed away.
> > I also kind of liked the Twisted Time Train.
This one should arrive from KB today! Looked good enought to get for
half-price.
> > To answer Shiri's question of why people hate them? Well, Timmy is reason
> > enough :-)
>
> Really? The truth? I don't think he's ALL that awful. I mean, yeah, he's weird
> looking and dopey, but brasso his shirt and stick the head under a helmet -
> it's not that bad!
He's no worse than the Anikin or new Adventurers/Dino assistant minifig. They
make good cabin boys if you don't have a helmet for them.
>
> > More seriously, they just don't interract well with any other LEGO theme,
>
> Whaddaya mean by that? I don't think that's a good argument. There's NO theme
> that just fits/interacts with other themes as it is. Castle sets won't fit
> next to space sets, no matter what you say. Trains don't mix well with
> Pirates. You can't put a (lego) robot R2D2 next to a town and say that they
> work well together. (OK, you can-- but you'd be lying ;)
Actually, it's all in the imagination (as you mention below). Off the top of
my head I can link Space/Castle with any Voltron/Thundercats/He-man cartoon of
the mid '80s (Wow, I think I just inspired myself). Many anime series utilize
both as well. As for Pirate/Train, well, sure there were no passenger trains
or monorails, but Steve Jackson himself has talked about "Having the pirates
attack the Gold train shipment." Finally, I believe it's Brad H's Lego City 2
that has the Star Wars nightclub, complete with "Hit Jar-Jar" game!
> Lego is adaptable, that's what's so great about it. You can rebuild the Time
> Cruisers to fit in with your castle MOCs, or with you're space, or pirates, or
> town MOCs. Just like you can MAKE your castle fit in with your town (see Brad
> H's town with the castle "amusment park" for an example).
> > and are very haphazzard and sloppy (as Scott mentioned - I agree, they
> > have that "we need to empty out the overstock of parts" look to them).
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> But, IMHO, that gives them a better piece selection (like pirate hulls with
> space helmets with castle arched windows, etc).
There's no denying that the sets are great sources of multi-genre parts, but
many (if not most) lego collectors are style specific, pirates, mecha/space,
castle, town, train, and look on the sets as being too scattered in theme for
the cost. While I (and the few late(r) comers like me) see the sets as a
source to build up many themes in the collections at once
> Truly, I think that the AFOL community is somewhat prejudiced against TC&TT
> sets... the sooner we put the differences behind us, the better... ;-)
>
> -Shiri
You shaid is shister,
-Sean, the "porkshops and appleshaush" pirate
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