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Re: "Is he seriously thinking it's going to work?"
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lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Sun, 22 Oct 2000 01:28:34 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Tobias Möller writes:
The quote above is from one of my NLF:s, after he saw my newly purchased 1182.

The thing he found so fun, was the fact that the building instructions
show the scorpion attached to the end of a chain, which in turn is
attached to the raft.
I had no idea why, but according to my NLF, Johnny Thunder is stupid
enough to think that the scorpion can tow his raft.
It's a very bad choice, though, considering the fact that scorpions
aren't water animals!

He also gave me an alternative use for the chain piece: To make a
"morning star" style weapon, and use it on a MindStorms robot.
(He's into destroying LEGO. He's the one who used his classic space
minifigs as shooting targets... Ouch...)

--Tobias

Where did you buy that set?  I've never seen it before.  You should take his
comment as an inspiration to design a scorpion-towed vehicle.  The scorpion is
very much neglected by animal-towed vehicle builders.  But how many would you
need?



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  Re: "Is he seriously thinking it's going to work?"
 
I bought it, along with nine other small sets, on Crete (I was there, and I had some cash left over, and figured the best way to get rid of them was to spend them on LEGO ^-^). If you're curious, this is what I found: 1184 1185 1182 1186 3055 (in a (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  "Is he seriously thinking it's going to work?"
 
The quote above is from one of my NLF:s, after he saw my newly purchased 1182. The thing he found so fun, was the fact that the building instructions show the scorpion attached to the end of a chain, which in turn is attached to the raft. I had no (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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