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Re: Plane Sailing? (was Re: 10024Red Baron)
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lugnet.loc.au
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Sat, 30 Nov 2002 05:35:30 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
> > 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.
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> Alas, not at all innovative, but a mere derivative re-use of a well-known idea.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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 lifeforms one encounters.
The reason for the 4 shovels, is the wing array, what crash landing in a Tie
isn't going to result in the serious damage to at least 3 wings. Only carry
one shovel and that will be the wing that embeds itself in the ground so deeply
you would need a shovel to dig out the shovel.
But back to the Camel, before crop-dusting developed, they experimented with
aerial tilling of the soil using the below tail shovel, this was an offshoot
of the WWI tactic of burying the enemy in their trenches alive(very slowly),
a similar tactic later used in the Gulf War.
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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