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Steve Baker wrote: <<snip>> (...) I 'came back' to Lego just recently after a 15 year absence (the return largely triggered by MindStorms) - and the one thing that struck me was how specialised Lego has now become. I know that when I was 'playing' (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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<snippedy-dooh-dah> (...) largely (...) specialised Lego (...) Same with me. I came across a lot of new parts. The Lego Technic evolution was faster than I thought. The new beams, connectors and all that stuff you need to build the new models. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The complaint I have though is that many of these new parts are totally unnecessary. The case in point that upset *me* was the "Bi-Wing Baron" from the Adventure series (5928) which is a small biplane model. The whole of the underside of the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, actually, you can't quite get the same shape, or at least not if you want as sturdy a model. It also would actually take 12 parts to reproduce it (2 4x7x1 complex inverse slope, 2 1x4 plates, 2 1x2 plates, 2 1x2 bricks, 2 1x1 thin wall (...) (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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