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Re: Some general discussion things
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Tue, 7 Mar 2000 14:35:29 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Tim Courtney writes:
> In lugnet.space "Nan Zhou" <dimok_ripoblus@Yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > 1. I know arctic is not a space subtheme, but how would you rate Arctic vs.
> > Ice Planet 2002? In my opinion arctic sucks because it is mainly a
> > nonfuturistic town theme, but Ice Planet probably had the worst clashing of
> > colors ever. Ice Planet in a TKO.
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> I like the concept of Artic, but not the implimentation. It could
> have been done so much better with non-Jr-ized pieces and sans cheesy
> iceball/crater piece and trans-scorpion. OTOH, Ice Planet, colors
> included, ROCKS. I LOVE the trans-orange both on those sets and as a
> color in general. The blue and white clearly fit an ice theme as
> well. 2 thumbs way up to IP2002, one of my favorite Space subthemes.
I love the trans-orange too. I wish there were more sets currently available
that I could get them in. I have a hard time coming up with ideas to use blue
with. For some reason I get a mental block with it, but it does go with the
IP2002 theme very well. White is a universal color for me. I can use it in
almost anything that I'm making.
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> > 2. What are your thoughts on Unitron, the poor US-only subtheme that didn't
> > even survive a full 2 years? I had great hopes for collecting all four of • the
> > sets, including the giant monorail, but the set was discontinued before I
> > coudl only get one. Unitron was a great subtheme, but they never bothered • to
> > expand it or anything.
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> Unitron was a mediocre subtheme, plagued by a couple cheesy spaceships
> which didn't seal off completely - one of TLG's big flaws in producing
> space material. The monorial had promise, but was poorly implimented
> as well. There was no central concept or objective behind Unitron, as
> there had been for every other theme up to this date (IMO) - even
> though sometimes you would have to dig for that objective. The only
> purely good set in Unitron IMO was the Star Hawk II. The base was
> severely lacking, the Crater Cruiser was lacking severely from
> functionality and purpose that similar past models had, and the
> Monorail didn't capture the coolness of its predecessor, the Futuron
> monorial (I own the Futuron, and have seen the Unitron in action).
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> Unitron was clearly a 'we can't think of anything better for the US
> market, so we won't put a whole lot of effort into it' subtheme.
I missed the Unitron theme. I never really had a dark age, rather more of a
"dusk age". This would have been about that time.
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> > 3. Do you think that it would be good if lego started re-releasing the old
> > space sets, like a couple years from now maybe releasing the five original
> > blacktron sets so that those people who have heard of the legendary days of
> > blacktron only in myth can fully experience the coolness of the subtheme. I
> > really wanna get all of those space sets I missed out on. I think that lego
> > has some kind of divine policy against rereleasing any sets, but I believe
> > that rereleasing blacktron will cause a great skyrocketing in lego business.
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> You are about the 1,489,382nd person to suggest this. We all want a
> rerelease of the classic sets, but I sincerely doubt TLG will do this
> - within the next 10 years. It will take a while for Lego Direct to
> get in gear just with the bulk parts, and then at least 5 years longer
> for us to really see our suggestions reflected in the product line.
> Perhaps by the time they get to re-releasing classics, the collectors
> who remember them will be long gone.
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> Still, I think re-releasing them would be REALLY cool. But
> realistically, its not gonna happen.
I don't see it happening either. To bring out copies of the Classic & BT1 sets
would immediately reduce the value of the original sets, although I'm pretty
sure that is not really what is on TLC's corporate mind. What I do see is the
possibility of TLC bringing out the essence of those sets. If they were to
incorporate the coolness from Classis Space and BT1 with newer piece
combinations, I'm sure the sets would fly off the shelves. Imagine a cross
between the Galaxy Commander and BT1 colors/style. I'd buy that.
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> -Tim
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> http://www.zacktron.com
> http://www.ldraw.org
> AIM: timcourtne
> ICQ: 23951114
-Duane
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| (...) I wish some of the cooler recent pieces came in it, like the aquazone windscreen and the large aquazone dome. As for colors it goes well with, I like it with black, with a bit of white as a highlight color -- Jonathan Wilson (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) I like the concept of Artic, but not the implimentation. It could have been done so much better with non-Jr-ized pieces and sans cheesy iceball/crater piece and trans-scorpion. OTOH, Ice Planet, colors included, ROCKS. I LOVE the trans-orange (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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