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Re: No way for a LEGO newbie to get up to speed? Unfair!
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Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:40:54 GMT
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Mark Tarrabain <markt@lynx.bc.ca> writes:
> So I have to ask, if someone were to want to seriously get into creative
> LEGO Technic construction, and were starting out from scratch today,
> what choice would they have?
I haven't seen the new 1999 Technic sets yet, but I would say that the
piece selection in the 1998 sets where very good. Personally, I would
find enough pieces to build many interesting things using a few 1998
Technic sets.
> I'm not so much complaining about the price of LEGO as much as the lack
> of selection when it comes to Technic. There are *NO* Technic sets
> offered this year that resemble a universal building set.
But there is indeed! The 9719 Robotics Invention System is clearly a
universal building set, is it not? I have hardly seen any other LEGO
set which promotes creativity as much as that set.
And the new Super Car, the 8448, does IMO promote creativity more than
the previous Super Cars. The previous Super Cars I fear that were
built, and then put on a shelf, perhaps taken down only to impress
visitors. They're not very playable, you know, with the enormous size.
The new Super Car (8448), on the other hand, comes with pieces needed to
make many different bodies. This, I think, will encourage the kid to
tinker more with the chassis, perhaps building a completely different
body, as opposed to just letting it sit on the shelf.
It is my personal view that the Technic line isn't as bad as you're
saying. That said, I still think the 8446 looks very ugly:
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=8446
Fredrik
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http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/
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| (...) Okay. You are definitely right on this one. However, the RIS is about $200 US for 700 some odd pieces. Clearly a great deal of the expense is going towards the electronic components which are not, strictly speaking, necessary for a universal (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| You know, there doesn't really appear to be much in the way of LEGO for wannabe enthusiasts any more. (By the way, I'm thinking entirely on the Technic line here). It appears to me that every set these days seems to be geared towards developing a (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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