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Hey everyone Here's a question about Technic parts.. What was the first series that introduced technic style parts in a big way in a non-technic set? Would it have been Life on Mars? Of course, I'm removing from the list anything that was branded as (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Depends what you mean by a big way. Many SW sets made use of Technic parts, and though no single set used heaps of Technic, lump them all together and you could say SW used Technic parts in a big way. ROSCO (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Model Team ? -Brad (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) "Expert Builder"...Ha Ha-cheating with theme titles :)) Jeff (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"Ross Crawford" <rosscraw@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message news:I8A9Lv.1L9H@lugnet.com... (...) Oh, I don't know about that I'd have to say they used technic and pegs in a big way in #10030 Imperial Star Destroyer, that thing contained more technic (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Which kind of makes sense as Life on Mars/ the start of Star Wars were around the same time. I suppose I'm looking at in terms of being able to look at picture of a set and say "that's a technic style brick/piece". In other words, the obvious stuff. (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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If you want sets that are clearly "techinc" but not actually labeled "technic", the Inventor sets clearly count. (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"Jonathan Wilson" <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message news:I8AsD7.1JDE@lugnet.com... (...) True, except they are post-Bionicles. And I was trying to work out when Technic elements became popular in non-Technic sets. Wasn't so much after sets as (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) When I read this the first theme to come to mind was Space. If you go back to the Space sets of the early to mid 1980's, you'll find Technic beams, axles, and pins in use. Check these out- (URL) came with grey 1x8 Technic beams, axles (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) back to (...) axles, and (...) axle (...) axle (...) Hmm... not sure that it's Space - only because I used to collect a *lot* of space and never had a *huge* amount of Technic until a few years ago - after I stopped my hardcore space (...) (20 years ago, 11-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Space - "YAY" Technic - "YAY" Fabuland - "BOOOOOO!!!" (Just my opinion) You should change over to technic full time, We only have one female builder, although she's so good she's probably worth ten :-). Steve (20 years ago, 11-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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