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Re: Three new Wipeout MOCs
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lugnet.space
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Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:06:52 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Alexander Johnston wrote:
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I’m getting the impression that you are envisioning me doing something just
completely above and beyond radical here. I don’t know why people freak out
whenever I mention cut-out parts. I am not doing anything THAT radical. The
most “severe” thing I’ve done was cut out one left and one right 2 x 10 wedge
plate from a couple of old 7 x 12 wings for my AG-systems ship and it gets
less severe from there. I needed a few (three to be exact) 1 x 1 clickable
hinges instead of the standard issue 1 x 2 which couldn’t fit into the
feisar’s chaises (Believe me, I tried and I couldn’t do it without blowing
away it’s proper proportions), and I needed plenty of 2 x 3 wedges in colors
like blue, yellow and red. Lego only has them in grey, so rather than go
through the trouble of painting them or having to live with a yellow, blue
and grey color scheme, (yuk!) I cut 3 x 4 wedges in the colors I need in
half. As we all know, they are a penny a dozen. These are relativly minor and
petty things, and it doesn’t detract from the spirit of lego, IMO.
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Well Alexander, let’s look at it from a technical point of view.
Your MOC uses pieces of ABS plastic made by cutting up genuine LEGO elements. By
all reasonable definitions, those pieces are no longer genuine LEGO elements -
they’re just pieces of plastic that happen to resemble genuine LEGO elements, or
even merely have remaining studs/tubes that work correctly with genuine LEGO
elements... like MegaBloks elements.
It’s a model made partly from LEGO and partly from other ABS plastic pieces.
This means that A) somebody who can’t afford to damage their parts can’t
replicate your model, and B) it technically (and aesthetically) isn’t a genuine
LEGO creation which, like it or not, is inferior to a genuine LEGO creation (or
even a clone brick creation!), it being a lot less clever and ingenuous than
making a MOC without modifying parts.
Also, let’s take the reductionist argument for a moment. If you’re such a
stickler for accuracy, why do you tolerate LEGO studs all over the vehicles?
Surely you could cut those off too, fill in the dimples... you may as well have
kitbashed the exterior fairings with plastic plate from a hobby shop, as Aaron
suggested!
My point is, you crossed a line beyond which it’s murky to define whether your
MOC is a LEGO creation or not. If you’d stayed behind that line (modifying
elements), it would have been crystal clear. As it is, you get the worst of
both worlds - it looks much less accurate than a kitbashed plastic model, and
whose design is both technically and aesthetically inferior to a genuine LEGO
model.
I hope that clears things up.
Cheers,
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| (...) I'll conceede to that. (...) I have heard this argument about a thousand times, yet I have yet to see anyone pull it off without doing what I did. I'd be more than willing to learn to be a better Lego creator if people gave me some reasonable (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) I'm getting the impression that you are envisioning me doing something just completely above and beyond radical here. I don't know why people freak out whenever I mention cut-out parts. I am not doing anything THAT radical. The most "severe" (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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