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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)
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| | | | Re: WANTED: New fad! Paul Baulch
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| | | | "Kyle Keppler" <kyle@kepplah.com> wrote in message news:H56MM5.IEn@lugnet.com... (...) :-) (...) Ah, that's the word I was looking for, not turbocycles. Remembered a bunch of futuristic rideable thingies, and couldn't remember what they were (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: WANTED: New fad! Kyle Keppler
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| | | | | (...) Well, there was a turbobike AND a hoverbike fad. So you were right both times :-P. (...) Heh, don't hold your breath, it'll be a bit :-/ --Kyle (URL) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | Re: WANTED: New fad! Allister McLaren
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| | | | (...) I'm surprised that after Mladen Pejic's Pixie was revealed that powered suits didn't take off more than they did. They've got the hallmarks of a neat fad - they don't require 100,000 parts to build but they're complex enough and open to near (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: WANTED: New fad! Austin Bailey
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| | | | | pixies...i could've sworn those were going to be the next new thing. i was almost positive. alot of people made versions, and mods, and though i didn't build one, it did inspire me to see how small i could make one of my powersuits, the Grunt (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: WANTED: New fad! Gil Shaw
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| | | | You know, that's very true. Mladen's suits are a blast. There were few variants (a firefighting suit....my apologies to the builder for not being able to recall his name) that were really spectacular. The manned mini mech (M3?) are a real catchy (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: WANTED: New fad! Allister McLaren
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| | | | (...) Yeah, I saw them. Very nice - A quick search of brickshelf reveals William Toenjes as the builder. My favourite variation, though, was this one : (URL) by Timotheus Deering. (...) <flips over to brickshelf againg> O yeah, I remember that one. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: WANTED: New fad! Austin Bailey
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| | | | (...) battle armor suits, i've gotta give credit for inspiration of that particular model, and the barbarian (slightly larger: www.brickshelf.com/c...?i=233783) to Jeremy Sproat. it was his stickfig mecha that i initially looked at and said "add a (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
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