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Re: Life on Mars air-pump function
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Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:38:45 GMT
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In lugnet.year.2001, Eric Joslin writes:
> So, with these new scans, can anyone actually tell what the pump on the Mars
> Base thing does?
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> http://collectibles.echostation.com/fbtb/2/sys07.jpg
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> It looks like one of the pipes might shoot the little alien guy through the
> tube, but what do the other two lines (the ones with the gates) do?
Actually now that I look at it again I think they all shoot the alien guy
through and into the vehicle attached at the end of the tube. If you look at
the back of the two vehicles they seem to be attached by something very similar
to the third "Connected Tube".
Kind of remindes me of Voltron or something where the pilots go down some tube
to their vehicles.
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> It is clear from the next page
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> http://collectibles.echostation.com/fbtb/2/sys08.jpg
From the insets on this page I think it is a bit clearer.
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> That all three lines aren't hooked up at once, you have to manually switch
> them around. But I can't tell what they're supposed to do...
Definitely looks like you have to switch them around but my guess is a
Pilot-to-vehicle transfer system.
It will be interesting to see how many tubes you can hook together and still
have it work.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
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| (...) Ooooh, good call. I guess the "gates" are some kind of docking mechanism. But at least the Voltron team had little cars in their tubes, instead of just sliding along on some air-blast through a savage, dry "waterslide". The LEGO Martians must (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.space)
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