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Re: Plane Sailing? (was Re: 10024Red Baron)
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lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:16:40 GMT
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> The shovel is perhaps the most innovative piece use in the set, and though
> it may not pass (or even, in my case, be subjected to) objective robustness
> testing, I think the LEGO designers should be applauded for this one.
Alas, not at all innovative, but a mere derivative re-use of a well-known idea.
To wit, the 7181 UCS Star Wars Tie Interceptor uses 4 shovels for greebling. I
hesitate to guess at the intended functionality of said shovels (since by
definition the purpose of all greebling is mysterious functionality), but I
doubt that the shovels are present for the purposes of being a shovel, i.e. an
implement for minifigs to dig with.
Of course, it may have occurred to the designers of the Tie Interceptor that,
given the large number of desert and swampy planets that inhabit the galaxy and
the hazardous nature of Tie Interceptor missions, it might be that a Tie
Interceptor might crash-land into a desert or swamp and need to be dug out by
its pilot. However, if the shovels are intended as emergency devices, then one
must question the provision of 4 shovels in a single-crewed aircraft (waste of
taxpayer's money) and also the placement of all of them at the front of the
wingtip. In the event of a nose-first landing (if the Tie Interceptor can be
said to have a nose), the shovels would be more deeply buried than the pilot
themselves. No, if digging out emergency crash-landings was the intended
purpose of the shovel, then I assert that it would be more economical and more
convenient to have a single shovel in the cockpit. Also then it could double as
a spare light sabre (if grabbed from the appropriate end).
Kerry
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 | | Re: Plane Sailing? (was Re: 10024Red Baron)
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| (...) Don't forget the other cross theme...greebling(?) going on in this set, there are the spearguns, emergency hunting weapons for the abovementioned swamps, plus the dark-grey Belville cordless (in fact baseless) phones, to impress whatever (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Plane Sailing? (was Re: 10024Red Baron)
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| (...) Indeed I could have. Actually I also have a Shifty Bricks shovel in the required brown colour. However, to do so would have raised further questions: - Are dark grey LEGO shovels as strong as brown LEGO shovels? -(In fact, do all LEGO colours (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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