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> > In lugnet.pirates, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> > > I really do not understand all this complaining against the paper roof. • ...
> > > http://www.1000steine.de/gallery2/g127/05.jpg
> In lugnet.pirates, Richard Marchetti writes:
> > Ben, you must be kidding...
> No, I'm 100% serious about this...
I agree with Ben. I hate the large moulds (SPUD/BURP/POOP pieces), but I
think what the roof does far outweighs its limited uses in MOCs.
> > After all, they had to create this plastic sheet also, right?
> For a handful of cents. The costs are so low: forget about them....
This is the main thing - it keeps the cost down, and the way it lets the hut
open out is a brilliant touch. There's no way this would work so well with
bricks. The only downside was that TLC didn't provide adequate instructions
on folding it in the original boxes, which probably led to some kids with
funny-looking huts.
> > For example: the more I look at set #7315 Solar Explorer, the more I am
> > convinced that the quarter round elements used in #7106 Droid Escape could
> > have been used instead -- to have done otherwise is just TLC being cheap.
> > The bottom line is that I could have had a usable element with some cool
> > snakeskin printing instead of a plastic sheet I will probably never use for
> > anything. Could I use it? Yes. Will I use it? Never.
>
> For 7315 I might agree: I do not like any of the LOM sets too much. I do not
> care about the set design of them at all, since I simply ignore them as bad
> sets (Bad for me - maybe not bad for TLC and other customers)...
Well, I like the human LOM sets. I think they're quite an imaginative
contemporary variant on the Space range. That sheet was part of the
function of the model - one side could be propped up to make a shelter - and
it has to be cheaper than the large curved walls. Anyway, the curved walls
make an 8-wide cylinder, the model is six wide - so that would be even more
expense.
> So you may buy bricks from S@H and build your own roof. Throw away the
> "useless" sheet. But be happy: 299 bricks for 30$ is more than ok.
> ...
Spot on. I saw a good-looking model with a lot of useful parts at a decent
price, and had to have one. There were a decent set of alternatives on the
back too, which LOM was missing.
Jason J Railton
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| (...) <snip> (...) No, I'm 100% serious about this... (...) Here I could not disagree more: I really hate new (monofunctional) molds (poops and whatever they are called.) This sheet is - in my eyes - the same as the paper behind the shops in diagon (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.harrypotter)
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