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Re: FOTM/LOTM (Loss of the Month) Some thoughts...
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Date: 
Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:27:56 GMT
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"Bryan Beckwith" <bbbeckwi@mail.SPAMBLOCKuccs.edu> wrote in message
news:GFxsuF.A1y@lugnet.com...

- snip -

Better yet, in a perfect world LEGO would develop small machines • that mold
pieces on the fly.  We would just buy raw ABS pellets, drop them in • the top
of the coffee-pot size machine, select a part type and quantity from • the
touchscreen LCD on the front, and *presto* the newly molded pieces • would
come tumbling out.  :-)


That would truly be a perfect world.  LEGO could sell the machine for
say $100 and then ABS by the pound for about $5 a pound in all
available colors.

--
Overkill is the only sure kill.

SR



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: FOTM/LOTM (Loss of the Month) Some thoughts...
 
(...) Just like the metal maker things that you could get a little while ago. You just put the pellets in, put in the mold, turn it on and presto! 500 homemade bulldozer treads for a quarter of the price! but if only lego did such a thing, Then that (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
  Re: FOTM/LOTM (Loss of the Month) Some thoughts...
 
(...) I seem to recall somebody telling me that there is a machine like this in the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan, USA. You put some money into it and it supposedly spits out a molded "LEGO" brick. Of course, the quality isn't that great... KDJ (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: FOTM/LOTM (Loss of the Month) Some thoughts...
 
In lugnet.general, Tom Reed writes: - snip - (...) That is true, but I don't always like it. (...) I agree. (...) I find some fun in having a hard time finding sets (or parts) that I want. I am actually grateful to those who make parts and sets (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)

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