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In lugnet.space, Zac Soden writes:
> I finally pursuaded Mum to take me to TRU during their 20% off sale but
> still wasn't allowed to spend much!
My mum was the same. Wait until you're older, and you have to start
restricting how much you spend yourself. Ugh. Nightmare.
> I got the newe LOM T3 trike, mono jet and two of the discontinued astronaut
> packs.
> If you want white, blue and grey colours like me then get the T3 Trike. I
> can't stress this more. It has so many good slopes in these colours, a smoke
> grey dome, two of the cool new bendy hoses and three of thise cool new wheels.
The trike is a great model, and the dome in that shade is a great-looking
piece. I quite like the Solar Explorer too. A bit more expensive though -
when's your next birthday? Combined, they make a great plug-together system.
> I will be buying another mono jet because each one has only one of eack part
> on it.
A marketing ploy then, or just a cool design? I got a second mono-jet free
with the trike, using a Toys-R-us voucher. I built one as a mirror image of
the other. This also gave me just enough light blue slopes to top off a
tanker for the train I took to my fest.
These asymmetric designs look quite cool, and it's about time Lego did some
mechs. I like the new approach Lego have taken with designing the human LOM
sets, though I think it's a shame they stopped short of showing alternate
models on the back of the box. It's hard to come up with alternatives of
your own, having an odd-numbered or odd-handed selection of parts.
Still, I love the look of the human sets, and I tracked down all four mini
sets (with a bit of help). I probably won't be splashing out for the full
series - I'm just not taken by all the pre-formed pieces in wierd colours
that make up the big martian base, even if I did have that much money to
spare. I don't think I'm missing too much.
Jason J Railton
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| (...) I'm eyeing out the solar explorer now :) (...) Could I ask where you acquired them? I wouldn't mind them too. (...) I hate most of the martian sets. I think its the colours that erk me. I think TLG should have done a better job of them. catch (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space)
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