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Ok, I have now bought and assembled all of the Star Wars sets. Being a huge
fan of both Star Wars and Legos, these sets are a dream come true for me. On
the one hand, they're Star Wars, and on the other hand- they're a return to the
Lego sets of yesteryear, with lots of good general bricks. I came out of my
dark ages (unfortunately) just as things like BURPS were coming around. I
defended Lego to my friends at the time, but it became harder and harder to do
as they cut more and more corners and made more and more specialised bricks.
So, now we have these new sets. I got all the classic sets on the same day,
and all the Phantom Menace sets on the same day, too (well, a different day
than the Classic sets... you get the idea). Both days I ripped into the sets,
and both days I discovered the same disturbing phenomenon:
I would look at the box, look at the size of the model, and some kind of
internal clock would set for how long I estimated it would take to build a
set. Except for the smallest sets (landspeeder, lightsaber duel) my
instinctual clock was wrong across the board. And I found that as I built the
sets- especially the Y-Wing/TIE and Podracer sets, I experienced a sort of...
umm, Lego building exhaustion. Now, I'll grant you, in both cases I was
putting together all the sets in one marathon building session... but this
still worries me. Have the new sets caused some sort of... attention span
deterioration in me for building?
Has anyone else experienced a similar thing? I never beleived it when it came
to TV or movies or stuff like that, but I can't think of what else it might
have been.
eric
PS and did anyone else notice that the rock bit with the Gungan Sub was a BURP
built out of regular elements? I have to wonder if the original design used a
BURP, but it got nixed somewhere along the way....
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| (...) I know what you mean. I've always felt that way around Christmastime -- I remember the Space Police II, Ice Planet, Spyrius years particularly well: I built *all day* (the next day) and was horribly exhausted afterwards -- a great Legophoria, (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I just thought of another thing -- little sets almost never tire me out -- and neither do little within a big set. What really exhausts my brain is the large building instruction booklets -- because I have to compare each step with the (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| You know I found my self getting rather board when I was building the Tie Fighter, especially during the cockpit stage. I just thought that I was getting sleepy, or........ I don't know how to describe it. But I found that as I built the Y-Wing my (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| I thought the use of a dozen or so bricks to represent a cave was especially interesting as well. I could not believe they didn't use a BURP (or two). One other thing I found about the sub was the unusual use of the trans orange 1x2. I am referring (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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