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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 excitement built and continued until it was finished. Now I did not
build all of the sets at the same time, as did you. but the Tie Fighter did seem to
be a little old hat, or the same old thing. If you know what I mean.
A week later I finally received the 8480 Space Shuttle. I did a marathon build
wit it in one day, and had no problems.
I don't know why. Maybe it has to do with the way the bricks are stacked on top
of each other, kinda like the original and older sets started off life. Or maybe I
was just sleepy after all. Or maybe there was a disturbance in the force.
Wolfee
Lorbaat wrote:
> 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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