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Re: ThrowBots elements are cool
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 16:47:05 GMT
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Sidebar here - Todd, how many SW sets have you preordered for AucZILLA XI or
XII?

;-)

GOTTA have those orange 1x3s, but I'm not buying 10 Snowspeeders to get them...


Todd Lehman wrote:

> > Constrast this with the Star Wars sets -- the new pieces, by and large,
> > look like they are generally useful building pieces.  They are not
> > overtly decorative.  Other than minifigs and their accessories, there
> > are not many (if any) new pieces in the SW sets I would classify as
> > mostly decorative.  SW sets lnf very much like classic LEGO System sets.
> > IMO.
> 
> OK, I think I get what you're saying now.  There are too many complex
> patterned elements these days which look cool in their proscribed
> configurations but which due to their complexity limit their own
> interchangeability...?  That is, some of the new TB elements may indeed be
> capable of connecting 6 different ways, but a 2x4 brick they ain't...?
> 
> --Todd

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  Re: ThrowBots elements are cool
 
(...) OK. Well, it's probably easier and more cost-effective for them to put TB under the TECHNIC brand name than to create two new brand names. I guess they felt ZNAP is different enough from TECHNIC to get its own totally separate brand name. (...) (28 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)

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