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Calum in the News Again
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Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:13:33 GMT
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Hey Calum -
For you, or anyone else who is following the revalation of the winners of the
ISC Contest, Calum is quoted on the winners' page with his comment on the Lego
Space Factory ;)
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Trapped here in Vienna, away from my Lego collection again, I broke down and
found an open store selling Lego. They had a bit of stuff 40% off, but since
it was mostly Studio (overpriced) and European list prices (ditto), it wasn't
cheap enough to make me buy it.
I did buy one of the current generation racers cars - the wee cheap ones. I
got the orange and black one, mostly cuz I liked the facial expression.
Wow, I've had a lot of demented fun with it.
For those (like myself) who didn't/don't know, it comes with a town-scale
pull-back motor, in a roughly 2x6x1 package (it's smaller at the front) and
connects to town-sized wheel hubs. There are tiny notches in the face of the
wheel hubs so that the motor can get purchase on the hubs; I'm not sure if
other town wheel hubs have these notches. The supplied hubs are "offroad" or
truck-sized hubs; not the smaller "sub-compact" hubs we're more prone to use in
Calum-Carz(tm).
Anyway, it has been menacing the furniture in my hotel room. About 40cm of
pull-back nets roughly 6-8m of movement on a flat surface, but of course it has
little power at that kind of ratio. (ie: it has trouble on duvets)
I noticed that Lego will be releasing/has released a number of action racing
sets this year. If they have this kind of play value per dollar (Euro),
they're going to be immensely popular, I think.
I'm trying to figure out if the racer's body (it's not a minifig, just a
minifig head on a weird torso + steering wheel molded piece 2x2) would make a
decent gargoyle or something.
Not many useful pieces for anything but cars, but I'm not being too picky here.
I wish I'd brought my new 3493 to play with. :O
Jeff E
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| (...) I really wish I could gave given them a better quote later on, once the Space Factory translation was done. During the voting, the Space Factory was still all in German, so I just looked at the pictures, which are alone extremely impressive. (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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