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Re: Anyone remember this set?
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lugnet.space
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Sat, 5 Feb 2000 19:04:28 GMT
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In lugnet.space, John Robert Blaze Kanehl writes:
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> I agree....May I have permission to add the hoverbot to my collection of
> Misc. space characters?
Go ahead -- I'm happy to pull any of them apart if the pictures weren't clear.
I'm fond of the thin-bot, myself, but you can't relaly make out much of the
detail from the black pieces.
> I like the comedic aspects of a couple of your creations...I haven't
> experimented w/ robots in years...
Well, pretty much every set I owned became part of a spaceship, base, or crash
site at some point.
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> Gee....and I thought I was original...lol...your first gray robot is almost
> exactly what I used to make....I even have 20 of them in storage
> somewhere....my only difference was that I used a 2x2x2 gray landing gear
> piece for added height and I didn't use the 1x2 on top...
I was a pretty anal-retentive kid, so all the robots had to fit in the same
space as a sitting astronaut: that way they could pilot the ship back home when
the human inevitably broke a leg in his living room crash-landing. :-)
> I derived my inspiration from Lost in Space episodes that were aired late
> at night when I was a child. I made a similar version resembling the robots
> in Disney's black hole....I always wanted to build a red Maximillian from
> that movie....
YES! Oooh, I think I have a new mission...
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> I even took a swing at a Doctor Who Dalek when PBS in Buffalo started airing
> it in 1979....
Take a look at:
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~allanj/filmcrew.html
(Allen Smith's Daleks...)
Hmmm... wonder if I could a K-9...
[...]
> okay enough of my early "nerdom"
Luckily, some of use never outgrew the nerddom. We just married other nerds.
:-)
- Mike
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