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WANTED: New fad!
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Wed, 6 Nov 2002 02:10:30 GMT
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Attention spacers!
Things are a little too quiet in .space at the moment. The reason, IMO, is
obvious. We need a new fad.
Look at the past fads which have spurred a good deal of creativity:
Mecha (the mother of all fads... so big they got their own group
;-)
Turbocycles (fun & easy on the parts count, and nice to use up those
wheels!)
'bots' (well, not a huge fad, but good for greebly ideas)
Moonbases (fantastic social idea)
Pods (I didn't go for them personally, but still a good idea)
So what's the next fad? Hmm. Tough question. How about I quickly make a list
of a bunch of (potentially stupid) ideas that pop into my head to get the
ball rolling, and then someone might have a genuinely _good_ idea!
1. Vehicles/ships with a creature motif (think 'Hopcraft') or even a plant
motif. Anyone remember the space-tree ships in "Tenchi-Muyo"?
2. A ship that uses as many of your pink elements as possible. Can't see
many takers here, but I'll give it a go ;-)
3. Ships with as much concealed equipment as possible that 'pops out'. As an
example, here's a fighter I recently made that conceals its weaponry:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/shnub/new-space-mocs/seiryuu1.jpg
4. Microfig versions of as many of your ships as possible, to put in a
microfig space-base diorama.
5. One thing I'd really like to see would be a modular starship version of
moonbase. The ship would probably be a linear row of module segments
(although your could have single-to-double-row couplers), and the
participants would want to arrange who makes the bow and stern sections.
Then it's just up to the various meetings to make as long a ship as
possible!
Hmm, well the last idea is probably the most promising one. Any other ideas?
--
Cheers,
Paul
LUGNET member 164
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| (...) All good ideas. I especially like the one about ships with concealed weapons as I have tried to do this in some of my own designs too. Perhaps it should be for hidden 'anything' though, not just weapons. But first let me answer why you may be (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: WANTED: New fad!
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| (...) grey canopy instead o' red... but that's me ;-) ) It looks like a personal fast cruiser that goes POP GUN PODS FRAK! Excellent. Give us some more pics!!! Chris <>< P.S. SPACE! (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: WANTED: New fad!
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| (...) Sounds good. I've got a few pink elements that I've been trying to find a use for. I'd been considering a pink pod, but maybe they could go into something all new. Either way, I'm not done with pods yet. (...) I really like this idea. I'd been (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: WANTED: New fad!
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| Aye...it has been a little quieter lately. Messageboards seem to go through cycles tho'. I'm sure that everyone's part counts will go up around Christmas with the release of the 2003 SW line in some areas, plus the under-the-tree additions. Always (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: WANTED: New fad!
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| (...) You forgot one: Hoverbikes! Paul had a contest with those and most people made 2+ of em :-) (...) That's the thing with fads, you can never predict what they will be. It needs to be simple, yet easy, and still cool to succede in .space. Here's (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: WANTED: New fad!
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| (...) Well I made a modular aquazone alpha team ship. (URL) on adding more modular units. This modular thing is a lot of fun! Whatdoyathink? (URL) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
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