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The question remains...can it manipulate itself?...not for pleasure I mean, just for self-maintenance. Soren the OMC is money, if fact you're money baby. Its almost studless, but the remaining studs actually work as a greeble I think. Great (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) (Ahem..) Alfred Bester's job was writing and editing Detective Comics through the 1940s. Batman worked for him. However, what I meant was, the movie version of Batman and Joker leap out of the pages of Bester's Tiger, Tiger. The momentum of (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) That would be a bit difficult, since his story wasn't published until 1956, 17 years after Batman first graced the cover of Detective Comics #32, and 16 years after the Joker was introduced in Batman #1. Ironically enough, the first Joker (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) (snip lots of good reasons why the book is indeed, a top 10 on many lists, and why thiis movie would rock!) All I can figure is that it's too obscure... that or there is a fair bit of introspection on the part of Foyle (his motivation for (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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A novel which has, inexplicably, never been filmed, is Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination. This is surely one of the top ten greatest Sf novels ever. It was written by a veteran radio and TV writer as an intensely paced male action hero (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) It is way more fun. (...) Nice job Steve. I like little models done well, as fudging is almost impossible. I was actually thinking of selling my trike bodies .. now I can't! Gonna go build me one or two :) -Tom McD. (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I'm right there with you, man. I felt the same way about Hudson Hawk. It's so incredibly hokey it's good. Allister (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I read a script once of a proposed movie based upon Isaac Asimov's short stories that never got to filming. The explanation was that Asimov's stories are very adult, concerning deeper issues and themes than most Hollywood sci-fi. (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Excellent Captain John (or Mark.) I recognise you as a fellow sufferer of SITHS(1) You got all but one; one song was not quoted, but referred to by name. The Adrian Belew song was inadvertent, but still worth bonus points. If a song gets (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) My friend has it in DVD and I'll probably be seeing it very soon. I'm reading the books right now and I'm afraid of what the movie will be like. Considering the actors that are in it, I'm pretty sure it will be horribly bad. (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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(...) Very cool bikes! I like them, but I wish you'd made more versions rather that just changing the colors. Still awesome to put in a moonbase layout! Terry (URL) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Steve, Very creative use of parts! Very COOL! I like the simliarity between vehicles pointing to the same company's design team, but the differences that make each bike a separate model; it looks as if you have a year's (or at least a (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space)
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Also known as the Kuester, or Space-Crab. Enjoy! (URL) (Click it! Click it!) Soren P.S. I've been up on MOCPages for a while now. Check it out (URL) here> (22 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !
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(...) That's a mighty fine looking fleet you've got there. Way to re-purpose two seemingly single-use pieces. Peace and hogs, Professor Whateverly (URL) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) We don't get a lot of that around here, Just Johnny. (I'll be seeing Henry Rollins Spoken Word here in Seattle next week. :D ) (...) Udo Kier (URL) is your friend. :) -Grand Admiral .space Curator (URL) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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I cannot remember if the contest is over or not, but this was built the evening of the announcement of the contest: The BB-NJ (may or may not stand for Built Before the New Job) (2 URLs) This interpretation of the old P38 fighter sports a single (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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I got a number of trikes from a parts draft. And since Space is way more fun than Town... :P (URL) Click the pic to view the rest, post-mod. Until then, you can see them here: (URL) --SteveR (22 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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(...) If they bugger this up, someone will have to die. (...) Too bad, I could see it being really cool. Hopefully it'll get moving again. What I want to see is a film version of Cherryh's Cyteen, or maybe Tripoint. 40K In Gehenna would be cool, (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: StudWars presents : .castle vs. .space !!!
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(...) Not true. Choose not to, most of the time, perhaps, but "can't"??? I don't THINK so! Ask Shaun Sullivan about use of his German rail mounted BFG in a Brickwars scenario... Or ask me, I played with some of the BLOC at Adrian Drake's house and (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | The Fly
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Presenting the Fly. Like the (URL) SHIELD> before it, this is another shallow-space probe. Unless you're in a microfig frame of mind, but that can't be helped. This is designed for lower atmospheric missions and is even able to land on its integral (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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