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Re: more turbocycles!
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lugnet.space, lugnet.build
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Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:08:45 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jon Palmer writes:
> "Adrian Drake" <tremor@apk.net> wrote in message
> news:GpLxLy.DGx@lugnet.com...
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> -snip-
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> > You'd chase these guys down and interrupt their racing? You fiend! The
> > Turbocycle League is equal parts Fast and the Furious style streetracing • and
> > organized Pod Race style racing. It's not THAT illegal :) Except when • the
> > occasional bystander gets maimed or shot with a laser or something, but we
> > don't like to talk about that sort of stuff...
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> This is how I imagine these races would take place:
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> The whole planning process of a race is very secretive. Only the racing
> teams, drivers, organizers and maybe a few sponsors know where the next race
> will be. I like the idea of hundreds or thousands of Bikes and drivers
> decending suddenly upon some hapless Megalopolis on a random planet.
> They're carefully planned racing course cuts right through the city, turning
> it upside down. The authorities are helpless to control the pandemonium.
> But slowly some of the chaos abates as the citizens realize with pride that
> their city has been chosen as the site of the next great Turbocycle
> Championship.
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> Sounds neat to me anyway... :-)
Sounds pretty close to what I was envisioning :) I'd actually build one,
but I think the representation of a futuristic city would make my brain
hurt. Besides, I don't have enough road plates to make a decent track
*hehe* Perhaps some time in the future.
Adrian
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www.brickfrenzy.com
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| "Adrian Drake" <tremor@apk.net> wrote in message news:GpLxLy.DGx@lugnet.com... -snip- (...) and (...) the (...) This is how I imagine these races would take place: The whole planning process of a race is very secretive. Only the racing teams, (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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