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Re: It's a Mech...It's a plane...It's, uh, both?
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lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha
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Sat, 31 May 2003 21:44:24 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
> In lugnet.announce.moc, Adrian Drake wrote:
> > http://www.brickfrenzy.com/space_talisaro.html
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> I like the bulk of the torso & legs; the arms may be a little thin, but not that
> bad. on a bit off-Lego-topic is the general observation that all the
> transformers i've seen here on Lugnet have used major vehicle body parts for
> mech body parts; they don't just fold the shell of the vehicle onto the back of
> the bot form so the bot body can be sculpted like this example of Armada's Red
> Alert:
> http://www.transformers.com/pl/page.viewproduct/product_id.9034/dn/default.cfm
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> a massive part of the body is simply folded onto 'his' back revealing
> sculpted/scrawny legs. I don't like it. a windshield here, or small panel/wing
> there is o.k., just not the major body parts like that example. I know the
> original (G1) decepticon jets had both wings folded to either side of their
> robot body, but the wings were relatively secondary in mass & it made for the
> effect like the robot had wings too; the decepticons could fly, so it made sense
> and it looked cool.
The G1 Transformers like Starscream were a heavy influence on this design. The
way the cockpit folds, the position of the nose, and in a small way the way the
arms fold were influenced by the design of those old Transformers. Like you
say, the new ones are crap. Sure, they are more detailed and poseable robots,
but they're just not interesting looking, and certainly no fun to build out of
Lego. It's a great thing that Lego builders take the care to make a proper
looking transformer :) That, and building really thin wall body panels would be
a little tough with Lego!
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> anyways, cool transformer-the wings on the bot look wicked cool like the G1
> tranformers too. I'm partial to the flying/sleek ones.
Indeed I am too. I've always loved plane-based transformers, and when I was a
kid I'd have killed for the Robotech based Skyfire/Jetfire transformer. That
thing was AWESOME!
Thanks
Adrian
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http://www.brickfrenzy.com
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