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Re: A fan no more
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:49:35 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Peter Roberts wrote:
> A bit off my current tangent,
> who can honestly say the one on the left looks better?
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> http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=798618
I can. I think it looks a lot better without all the studs.
The advantage of Technic bricks over liftarms comes when you want to add some
Technic features (gears, etc.) to a mostly-non-Technic model. But for a purely
Technic model like these dune buggies, the studless liftarms provide a much
cleaner look.
The only advantage to the one on the right is that it's obviously LEGO to the
novice eye. The lack of studs on the left one may fool the casual observer into
thinking it's some other brand of construction toy. But you asked which looks
better, not which looks more like classic LEGO.
--Bill.
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| (...) You expressed several good points including some I had. I think a lot of the rants are coming from people who remember the first technic models and how easily they could mix basic parts in technic models and vice versa. Today it is a bit (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: A fan no more
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| (...) The ironic thing is that there is no TECHNIC clone on the market (making the one on the left more distinctly "LEGO"), and parents often get confused about what is truly LEGO product vs. what is a clone product. (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Thanks, I'm pretty sure that was what I was trying to say when I got everyone so angry. You said it a lot better though. A lot of old technic models had studdless beams, but they didn't go overboard. I was asking what now defines Lego. Current (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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