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Throwing one out to the .space peeps
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lugnet.space
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Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:43:50 GMT
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Pardon the subject line....subjected to the the Amercian Music Awards the
other night :)
After catching up on some recently posted MOC's and marvelling at the
fantastic shapes, scales, sizes, colours and details of our little corner of
the Lego empire, I found myself amazed at the transformation the process of
design has gone through over the last 5 years in regards to space.
As much as most of us hold the fondest memories of Classic Space, the
majority of the craft and bases back then followed a pretty straightforward
aestetic. Slopes and hinges could produce some interesting shapes, but the
mostly linear lines (the classic 'tube' ship) and SOT techniques made any
attempt for something different difficult and often, flimsy. This may have
been my own lack of building skill, but it seemed by friends at the time
suffered from the same condition. Maybe we just all sucked.
However, with the coming of the Star Wars line and more importantly, the
elements within it seems as if the change happened overnight. I remember
first spotting Karim Nassir's Titianium Goose online years back. I was
astounded by the evolution that had seeminly happened in an instant. When I
bought the snowspeeder and discoverd the click-hinge, I literally yelled to
my fianace 'Honey!! Come take a look at this! Where was this 15 years ago?!"
With this line, the discovery of new and exciting elements in each set
really brought me back to the fold. Sure, I love Star Wars but it's really
the possibilty provided by the innovation in elements that hooked me. To
this day, opening the set and emptying the bags is the best experience.
Examining the elements and seeing how they could solve outstanding problems
in other designs of mine is the experience to savour....building the
official model is usually way down the list.
So what exactly am I 'throwing out' to the crowd here? Simply put:
1. Do you agree that a revolution in fan Lego space design has taken place
over the last 5 years or so? How would you describe it?
2. Is it the availability of new elements that has made it so, or do you
think that a similar zeitgeist would have been possible, if perhaps not as
varied?
3. It is undeniable that LUGnet and other online communities have become one
of the driving forces behind the creativity - do you think that the growth
of these communities was accelerated by the new element availability?
I believe there are no right of wrong answers to these questions...just
wanted to try and take a look into the heart of our shared phenomenon.
.space forever!
Cheers,
-Gil
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| In lugnet.space, Gil Shaw writes: <snip some good comments> (...) Yes indeed. More specifically I think that building techniques shared by AFOLs have developed. Each of us had one or two techniques the others might not have thought of, and the (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) You are forgiven. :-) (...) Actually, I'm ashamed to say I never owned a classic space set when I was a child. I was one of those castle people then, ya know. :-) (...) This is where it's strange (or maybe not so?) for me. I bought the sets (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) I would not call it a revolution as an evolution. Instead of thinking just "classic" space, people are now in the mentallity of "sci-fi". The concept of collecting a few moon rocks compared to galaxy conquest does not even compare. (...) Not (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Yes.... Nothing short of remarkable is how I would describe it. I would like to opine that this revolution has been seen in other themes, the state of the art has advanced in many of them. But I'm thinking that space is where it's most (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| So many excellent points in the responses thus far. I hadn't even thought of the effect of digital photography, website software and CAD programs that help out those of us with smaller collections, allowing a cannon of work to be created and (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| Boy there's been some interesting discussion here this week. I love delving deeper into the subject as well as merely admiring MOCs. Speaking as one who missed this revolution you speak, all I know is that between putting down Lego in 1982 and (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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