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Re: 1999 Technic Car
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Date: 
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 03:46:54 GMT
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In article <slrn770gkc.4mb.mattdm@jadzia.bu.edu>, mattdm@mattdm.org wrote:

Cwikla, Brian <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote:
Looks like there will be some great parts in this upcoming Technic set:
http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/koesel/

I am unimpressed, to put it nicely, with the new parts -- they look big and
very special purpose. The car is pretty much already half-built.

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 course,
there are mirror-image pairs for the left and right
sides of the car, but it could have been worse.

I'll probably get it, but it won't be better than
the 8880.  It's likely Lego will have simplified
8448's construction in keeping with recent trends.  And
that may not be a bad thing, either - I can't imagine
anything being more complex than the 8480 Space
Shuttle's motor multiplexer.

-Tim

--
Tim and/or Shelley Rueger - rueger "at" io.com
WWW page: http://www.io.com/~rueger/



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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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(...) very special purpose. The car is pretty much already half-built. (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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