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Re: Read Sales in the Subset
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lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 16 Jul 2004 04:23:14 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.au, James Paraha wrote:
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When I saw they were all left handed it made this leftie pretty happy.
Perhaps the Danes don’t hold the same values to left/right sidedness as
other cultures?
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Nope. They’re still designed with righties in mind. Try holding it in your
right hand and roll the thumb-wheel with your right thumb. Now try the same
thing with your left hand/thumb. It whacks you in the knuckles. If you look
back at the 2001 BIONICLE series, they’re all right handed for the same
reason. You hold the Toa in your left hand and twist the gear on the back with
your right hand. The two-handed characters will whack you in the knuckles,
but the right-handed ones won’t. The Turaga (and the Bohrok Va from 2002)
work the same way. The McToran were designed so you could pull back the
throwing arm with your right hand. The Knights Kingdom characters were the
first series designed such that a right-handed person would hold it in his/her
right hand.
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I’ve just spend five minutes trying to write a response to this that doesn’t
sound sarcastic (who? me? sarcastic?), but have given up. Trust me, the
following is not intended to be sarcastic:
It’s stuff like this that often impresses me about Lego. Why are KK left handed?
Because that’s what good design dictates.
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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| (...) Yeah, they've got a good batch of engineers over there, and nearly everything they've designed makes sense...once you figure out why they did it the way they did. Believe me, I was pretty grumpy about this one until I'd tinkered around with my (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| (...) Nope. They're still designed with righties in mind. Try holding it in your right hand and roll the thumb-wheel with your right thumb. Now try the same thing with your left hand/thumb. It whacks you in the knuckles. If you look back at the 2001 (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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