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Re: Holobrick vs Real McCoy (was Re: star destroyer?
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:22:18 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> writes:
> > John Neal wrote:
> > > consider this: Would it be less satisfying to play with Lego in the
> > > Holodeck than in real life? Is there something to actually possessing
> > > the material brick? [...]
> >
> > [...]
> > Personally, I would get a huge kick from holodeck Legos, since I wouldn't
> > have to spend money on the pieces (instead I'd have to subsidise the huge
> > cost of the holodeck), and I could choose any user interface I want, from
> > "Brick-O-Rama Tactile GUI v2.5" to "Space God Point-N-Click". Plus, the Web
> > pages would be staggeringly awesome. You wanna see my new dropship model?
> > From the inside? During a stormy descent over Saturn? With Mynoks? :-,
> [...]
> Man, but what I'd really wanna use the holodeck for would be to play inside
> a LEGO model after it was built! -- to exist at the scale of a minifig. You
> can't shrink yourself, but you could ask the holodeck to make the pieces
> gigantic. :) "Computer: increase model scale five thousand percent."
That is a *GREAT* fantasy. I know exactly what I would do with it:
"Computer: Load CLSOTW site #1, then proceed through the CLSOTW list
incrementally whenever I say 'next'. Increase scale to human. Then tell the
Captain I'm busy."
(:
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) Well, if *I* were Emperor, I'd need that space just to fit my Lego collection. Well, it wouldn't all be for Lego, but I would need a logistics base for the Lego-bearers, modelling slave droids, collection administrators, piece acquisition (...) (25 years ago, 30-Aug-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars)
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