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Success is just within his grasp. The adventurer can reach out and almost touch the golden crest of Tlaloc. "Hurry up!" he hears his companions shout from the balloon above, "the storm is almost on us!" Just a few more vines to clear with his trusty (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 5909 Treasure Raiders
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(...) {SNIP} 'Full marks for literacy,' he said, tugging a slightly elongated ear-lobe. <grin> Cheers, Roger (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 1785 Crater Critters
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Odd occurrences at the Cratier Robotics Development plant: at the end of the work week (when all employees returned to their living quarters) the virtual alarms were silenced and production conveyor belts began moving on their own. Autobot units (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.space)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 5909 Treasure Raiders
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"Well I'll be superamalgamated! Posthumous disfigurement to the cranial structure with a proclivity toward the assessment that the act was vehemently executed!" said the gaunt-featured archaeologist, William Harper Littlejohn. A smile played across (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | SPUDs and POOPs? (Was: Does anyone accually like 4561?)
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[ XFUT lugnet.general and lugnet.faq ] Kya Morden: (...) I can't remember SPUDs either. Steve? POOP = Piece (that can be built) Of Other Pieces Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Does anyone accually like 4561?
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(...) SPUDs and POOPs? Special Purpose...stuff... and more stuff.... What are they? Kya (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Does anyone accually like 4561?
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(...) Juniorization is more than just over-reliance on SPUDs and POOPs. It's the dorky design, the missing doors, the lack of realistic details. You know, everything you pointed out as being wrong with the set's design. I've got an old 4.5V tender (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 4980 Tunnel Transport
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Telestia is a dang good pilot (and she knows it) but signing on with Manwaring Underground Developers didn't entail anything like this. The Mammoth craft's finer points never included high marks for maneuverability, and angling it through a narrow, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.underground)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 6088 Robbers Retreat
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The robbers' retreat sits nestled in the heart of a lush valley at the base of a dormant volcano. Once a temple to the spirits of the sleeping mountain, the robber Yoshimoto has since turned the abandoned edifice into a hideout and storehouse of his (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.castle)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 6497 Twisted Time Train
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I'll be posting reviews here (instead of for the site I used to write for). Some of these reviews are older but unpublished, and there will be many NEW reviews for newer sets (Star Wars, Insectoids, Rock Raiders, etc.). ---...--- 6497 Twisted Time (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Does anyone accually like 4561?
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snip (...) Yes. The stickers are stupid. I cut mine off so that they were not stamp'd (...) This is just reverting to a older way of doing things. I have plenty of 1*4 bricks with printed grills on them. James Powell (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews)
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Yeah - I like it, and my mate Chris (a non-Internet AFOL) does too. I just got my 4561 on Friday and it looks a lot better built than it does in the catalogue. I won't say it's perfect - it has it's good and bad points. The obvious bad point is the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: This is a Throwbot?
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Alex wrote in message ... (...) I have Jet, but no Scuba (...) I had no problem standing Jet. The joints are versatile enough to balance the center of gravity (...) At first I had trouble with this, but I have it down now. The way to properly throw (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Cudo's to 4910 and an Ugh to 4950
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(...) I am not sure what the exact scale is off the top of my head but I will check my Essential Guide to Vehicles this weekend to see if I can derive anything from that. Eric Remove ".nospam" when replying be E-mail The New England LEGO Users (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Cudo's to 4910 and an Ugh to 4950
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(...) I believe it is about 3 meters tall. Dunno how tall it'd be in Lego though. Jeff (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Cudo's to 4910 and an Ugh to 4950
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(...) Not to beat the "not to scale" to death, but I was curious the other day, and calculated the height an AT-AT would be if that piece were used for the feet, and it was built to scale with the 'foot's width... It'd be about 20 centimeters tall. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Cudo's to 4910 and an Ugh to 4950
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(...) But it could be useful as the top of an AT-AT foot, possibly. I don't like the way TLG has aggresively started to use this piece as a unibody for small vehicles. The only bad part about set #4910. Steve (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Cudo's to 4910 and an Ugh to 4950
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Maybe if they marked the 4950 (and most of the Rock Raiders) line as ages 6-8 I wouldn't have such a problem with them. But as an overall value, these sets in general are awful. They just don't have that much building value - my 8 year old likes the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Cudo's to 4910 and an Ugh to 4950
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(...) I agree that it looks like an AT-AT foot but it would be terribly out of scale I think. It might work better as an AT-ST or AT-PT foot. Eric Remove ".nospam" when replying by E-mail The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Cudo's to 4910 and an Ugh to 4950
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(...) Yes, it does indeed have the sloped control stand in teal. I was a bit surprised to find this part myself, I admit. And the grey odd "plate" which forms the base of the vehicle is really cute. It looks pretty much like an AT-AT feet, I think. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.reviews)
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