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| Heya all ! My opinion about news in 1999 mini catalog: Technic - looks very bad Town Jr. - Looks very very bad Town Space centre - the body of this Space Shuttle is good but where are WINGS ??? I hope that this little black pieces in back of this (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) If this is all the technic we get this year, you're right indeed. But hopefully this is just a little sideline. (...) They're not wings. They're just stabilizers. Wings wouldn't do much good in space, now would they? (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) WINGS (...) Hehe... but IF it is SPACE SHUTTLE then it will landing like a plain. You know - Discovery, Atlantis, Columbia... and all this NASA Space Shuttles. ;)) And LEGO did just some Space Shuttles. Like this wonderful Technic model. Or (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) I should think it is. I've never seen Technic on one of the little in-set leaflets you get in Town (etc.) so I'm figuring this is a way of flogging Technic to a younger and more excitable audience... My (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) And even with the larger wing size on the real shuttles (compared to the new lego one) they are hard to land. Also, some of the new shuttle concepts, which do not use boosters for take off, have yet even smaller wings. the import factors in (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well, I guess in certain emergency situations it might need to land ON a plain, but I'm not sure how it would land like a plain. :) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| <snip> Or this (...) You must be the first one to use this expression.. Eric (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote (...) Actually, I think that that is a more accurate description of the flying characteristics of the real shuttle than the alternative spelling suggests. The one I heard was "like a brick, but less (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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