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Re: WANTED: New fad!
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Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:50:31 GMT
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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 hard to say what the next new thing will be. Most trends seem to
start almost by chance and sporadically, with the exception of the moonbase
phenom of course - it's organisation and delivery was incredible.
All your suggestions are good ones (and the example is fantastic!), but I
suppose it will take an MOC itself to start the ball rolling. Perhaps it
already has!
Cheers,
-G
In lugnet.space, Paul Baulch writes:
> 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:
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> 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!
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> 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!
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> Hmm, well the last idea is probably the most promising one. Any other ideas?
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> --
> Cheers,
> Paul
> LUGNET member 164
> http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/
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| Yikes, I haven't posted here in a while...I read Paul's bad news and I really wanted to wish him the best. Hey Gil, how's things? Anyway, I'm in Star Wars mode these days, residing more often over at that other great LEGO site (which is experiencing (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
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