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In lugnet.robotics, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Tilman Sporkert) writes:
> Yes, if you get your hands on one of the Space Shuttle sets, buy it! The
> main motor drives four different functions through a gearbox that contains
> at least 50 gear wheels of various types! The landing gear locking mechanism
> by itself is pretty awesome, too. There's one manual lever that moves all
> three landing gears.
>
> You get tons of gears, axles (white ones too), a normal and a micro motor, a
> fiber optic unit, two reversing switches, a battery box, and most important,
> lots of ideas that you can copy into designs of your own.
8480 Space Shuttle is still at the Toys-R-Us in Kingston, MA (I was there last
night). They have at least two (probably 4 or 5 but I didn't dig all the way to
the back of the shelf to count them). Despite a $159.99 price on the shelf, it
comes up on the register as $129.99.
> I bought my set on clearance for $75 in a toy store in Germany. I was there
> for vacation a few weeks ago. [...]
Do you really mean US $75? Wouldn't it have been about DEM 138 or Euro 71? US$
75 is pretty darm low, it's almost as low as the $72 LEGO would have charged
the store.
- Robert Munafo
LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ #+ S-- LS++ Hsp M+ A@ LM++ YB64m IC13
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