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(...) very special purpose. The car is pretty much already half-built. (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You may be right about those funny side plates, (the curved ones with longitudinal holes) but the rest of it seems like standard moderen technic, Those smooth bent beams appear in most of the sets now, and the use of various flexible pipes to (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) At least they re-used the same panel for each pair of panels in each quadrant of the car. (Huh?) I think the two small panels in the front are the same, just rotated w.r.t. each other. The same goes for the two large panels in the back. Of (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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Tim Rueger wrote in message ... (...) Hmm. I'm not happy about the arrival of Technic CRAPPs that this seems to show. Especially since there seem to be at least three different types, plus isomers. And it's red. Gack. But on the other hand there do (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'd put a vote in for the 8868 turntable jucntion as the most complex Lego model section I've run into. Even the second or third time around I need to fix mistakes in it's construction. Like you I will get one when they are available, if only (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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When I think of a "Super Car" I picture something like: (URL) think Lego should try to make a more detailed/complex car. The new super car look incomplete, and so did the old super car. Dave. (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, have you tried to make a car as detailed as Jonathan Stephenson's some time? I have, and let me tell you that the weight and shear number of pieces needed is unbelievable. I've used up to three large shock absorbers on each wheel and (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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Larry Andersen <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message 199812110502.VAA0240...ink.net... (...) I think alot of the complexity lied in just trying to follow their little colored dots though. If you were to build this model using 4 (at least) (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) No, I made a truck. With 10 suspension sets and 4 springs per set it was fairly firm while carrying the truck. But it definitely needed the support legs before lifting the crane arm up. Making a car that (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Of course, but you're not the regular LEGO customer! ;-) (...) I agree. It is the nature of Technic models to be "incomplete", i.e. not have a body that covers the whole car. The Model Team range has "complete" models, and Jonathan combines (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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