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Re: Super mini quick review of Football sets 3403, 3408, and 3409
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Sat, 8 Apr 2000 04:07:17 GMT
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Well, I just built all three sets, so...
In lugnet.reviews, Frank Filz writes:
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> 3403 Fan's Grandstand (name from receipt) $14.99
This certainly isn't as nice as last years Football promotion grandstand set,
but is still decent, despite having fewer seats and a fewjuniorized parts (3
grey 2x10x2 junior arches, 3 blue 1x2x5 columns). The set comes with a green
flag, a pair of binoculars, and a megaphone for the fans to hold. A small
score board is on the roof (and 2 sets of 0-9 scores are provided, the same
score pieces as used in last years Football promo). An extra soccer ball is
provided which is mildly weird. The roof is supported by 3 black slanted
girders.
> 3408 Super Sport Coverage (name from receipt) $29.99
correction: 3 white 2x2 computer slopes
This set is also decent. The shop has 2 hats, a video cassette, a flag, and a
soccer ball for the fans to buy. The box seating has room for 4 people, but
doesn't have any shade. The fan is provided a red flag to wave. The ticket
gates are fairly simple, each ticket boot is a white 2x2 medium slope
w/computer and a 1x2x3 train window. A 5x5 helicoptor rotor part is used as a
turnstile, but as I mentioned before, it's a little awkward. A little
stretcher cart is provided. The X-RAY room is set up so that the stretcher
cart can back in, and put the player under the X-RAY which reveals a broken
leg. The X-RAY machine also uses a white 2x2 computer slope. There is an
announcers box above the X-RAY room, with a microphone and swivel chair. On
the roof is the camera cherry picker, using the extendible crane and basket
parts. It is mounted on a 4x4 turntable, and uses click hinges. The sky boxand
the TV booth are removeable to make it easier to get at the store and X-Rayy
room. Unfortuanately this set doesn't come with a doctor or sales people for
the store and ticket booths.
> 3409 Championship CHallenge (name from receipt) $49.99
> - lots of green 2x2 tiles
46 to be exact.
> - many grey 2x10 bricks
12 to be exact
> - many white 2x6x2 winscreen
20 to be exact
> - 2 8x8 knotted nets
These are 8x16 not 8x8
The field is quite large, the playing area is 32x48 studs. A complete wall is
provided which is nice. The goals actually look a little better than last
years Football promo goals. I played around a bit with playing the game. It
works well, though the players can kick the ball out of bounds. Also, the FUBs
are not perfect at making sure the ball always returns to a player, but it
almost always does. It looks like it may be easy to score a goal (though a
couple times the player kicking went flying and landed in the goal!).
The whole setup of stands, ticket booths, TV booth, and lights (when we get
them) will need some work, but a good start is provided. I may try and set up
a rig where the playing field is 48x96 so I can drop last years Football promo
field on top of the FUBs for display purposes. That will end up requiring 36
8x16 FUBs, which would result in too many players, so I may have to figure out
a way to keep the ball from staying in an unnocupied space, or allow the
players to be moved (or just play the game with 18 players a side).
Frank
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