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RE: Review of 7131 Anakin's Podracer
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lugnet.loc.au
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Wed, 5 Jul 2000 05:36:03 GMT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter White [mailto:aztekium@optusnet.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 3:32 PM
> To: lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: Review of 7131 Anakin's Podracer
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> In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
> > Review of 7131 Anakin's Podracer.
> >
> > Executive summary: Yuk! Save your money for something else.
> >
> > Take a look:
> >
> > http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=7131
> >
> > What can I say? It's a collection of very random parts in • very assorted
> > colours. I can hardly believe that I bought such a lurid thing!
> >
> > Actually, I bought this set for a number of reasons:
> >
> > 1. I truly believed (at the time) that the 6 yellow banana • peels were a
> > must-have.
> > 2. The price was reduced because it had a squashed box.
> > 3. I was having a buying frenzy and it was just one small • piece of a larger
> > insanity.
> >
> > OK, so I bought it, I built it, and then I wondered why I'd • bothered. Why
> > did I want those banana peels so badly? Reminders welcome!
> >
> > Kerry, now older, wiser, and poorer for the experience
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> You could have bought the 7171 (which included the 7131)
> Still on clearance at K-mart for $89,
> the other two racers are bigger and better.
>
> The 'banana peels' do look useful, I'm still not sure for what yet.
You could possibly use them as ramps, or as some form of 'armor' for a
mechanized/tracked vehicle...
Or how about a diorama called 'the end of Bananas in Pyjamas' :)
Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128
Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
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