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Greetings all, Looking for feedback on the following scenario: No Prior Lego parts No Prior Lego Experience Recently Aquired The folowing Sets: Mindstorm (A Present) ExtremeCreatures - (Purchased - live and learn) RoboSports - (Purchased - live and (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ultimate Starter Sets / Add-Ons for Mindstorm? Reprise
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I would go for the Space Shuttle. It's 1.300 pieces with lots of good ideas, useful techinic parts and a few nice extras like the mini-motor and strobe light. (...) ... (...) Play well! Franz-Michael S. Mellbin --- fmm@fischer-mellbin.com (URL) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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fyi- I've posted inventories of a bunch of older Technic sets at (URL) least this way you can see what you'd be getting with each set. I believe these inventories have been duplicated at www.lugnet.com (along with many others). Dave (...) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Franz-Michael S. Mellbin wrote in message ... (...) ideas, (...) Hi. I mostly lurk about. And I especially perk my ears up at these "what should I get to bootstrap myself" threads, since I was out of LEGO for the last 15 years, only restarting with (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Update - First off - Thanks to everyone that posted and mailed. I got precisely the sort of insightful feedback I was looking for! Although I plan on getting the Space Shuttle if possible I _had_ to have some stuff right now!! So I chose the DACTA (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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That's a good list. I too entered the LEGO world with Mindstorms and have been having lots of fun since Christmas. I've currently have some pretty heavy desires on getting an 8880 Super Car but I can hardly afford the $200 it takes to do it. My wife (...) (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Stephan - It does come with two shock absorbers, a couple cool pivot parts (sorry - I don't know the real name for them) for the rack and pinion steering ,and a long worm gear plate. Some more black & gray beams and plates are cool to have, (...) (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Stephan B. Wessels wrote in message <36E67EA7.23613DCA@sdrc.com>... (...) Counting the days...I feel like a lego junkie - I had to get someone from work to get their child's s@h catalogue so I could puruse... (...) because (...) What is the (...) (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I might not have the names correct but yes that's what I meant. The idler gear has no center teeth and the clutch will let go after a certain torque limit gets hit. (...) I started to see chains as a solution to "action at a distance" kinds of (...) (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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