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Re: Sentimental Journey (Was Re: What all has TLC done?)
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> On one point I feel moved to vigorously disagree with Scott and Todd.
> Exploriens did NOT suck! Quite the opposite! One little mistake with the
I have to agree.. While I despised the insectoids and ufo stuff, and I
do have a certain attachment to the classic space sets (for nostalgic
reasons, since I had those and nothing else when I was a kid), I think
they did a nice job on exploriens and some of the blacktron stuff.. The
exlporiens sets do look strange, in a way, but I think they had an
appealing level of creative complexity, a nice color scheme, and
a cool selection of parts. :)
--
-Bones-
= http://www.necrobones.com/ = NecroBones Enterprises
Paul Baulch wrote in message ...
>
> Scott E. Sanburn wrote in message <38741E76.73300082@cleanweb.net>...
> > Todd Lehman wrote:
> >
> > I agree with Todd. The SW sets are nice, even though I am not a huge fan
> > of the SW universe. I am a lot happier with these sets than Insectoids,
> > Rock Raiders, Exploriens, and to some extent UFO. (My roommate has made
> > some awesome UFO models, however.)
>
>
> On one point I feel moved to vigorously disagree with Scott and Todd.
> Exploriens did NOT suck! Quite the opposite! One little mistake with the
> design of a "useless" wing piece (the PEWC [1]) doesn't relegate Exploriens
> to the status of the ugly fiascoes that are UFO and Insecturds. I like
> Exploriens a lot, especially the minifigs. The whole subtheme takes me back
> to the days of Futuron of which I missed a huge amount. Trans blue rules.
> TLC knew, so they used it a bucketload.
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> And speaking of older themes, I was leafing through part of a 1987 • catalogue
> (found somewhere ancient) and was highly amused to see, on the same page,
> these three "Classic" space sets: 6931, 6891, and 6780. Wow, the same
> spaceship with a different gimmick stuck in the back! How unimaginative can
> you get! Almost as amusing as the 6783 Light-N-Sound Box with
> Cockpit-Stuck-On-Front, or the 6985 Lump-Of-Cool-Parts [2] which were on • the
> same page of the catalogue.
> On the next page of the catalogue, and the (then) new Futuron sets were
> shown. They showed a substantial improvement (esp. monorail!). And in a
> couple of years, Blacktron and Space Police 1, an even greater improvement
> again. But that 1987 catalogue showed what was to me the true reason for
> this change. Classic Space had died because it wasn't really that good
> anymore.
>
> [1] What does PEWC stand for again? Pathetic Exploriens Wing Canopy?
> [2] And people make fun of the 6982 Explorien starship because its ugly! • Yet
> they'll go all misty-eyed over the 6984
> Galactic-Mishmash-Of-Grey-Black-And-Red or the 6973
> Loud-Candy-Colours-Garage-Door-Defender..... There is no justice.... :-)
>
> Hmmm. Anyway, it's late so I'm sure I sound a bit stupid, I guess the point
> I'm trying to make is that there's a lot of rose-coloured glasses being • used
> to look back at Classic Space (and perhaps other themes too) and I don't
> think they were all they were cracked up to be, and when I hear people go
> all googly about them I can't help chuckling a little, or perhaps even • snort
> in a gently derisive way.
>
> Anyway, hope I've stirred the pot a little (in a constructive way). Patrick
> (Z) was chided for being provocative, but I think it's a good trait as long
> as your motive is passion rather than angst.
>
> One final note before I go to bed: I prefer Space to SW for one reason:
> Space had original designs. SW has replicas of the film's designs. I don't
> know about anyone else, but this makes SW nowhere near as inspiring for me.
> More than an Arachnerd Base, perhaps, but a lot less than an Android Base.
>
> Aw, stuff it, I'm on holidays. More final notes:
> [*] One thing I never could figure out was Ice Planet's use of
> trans-fluoro-orange. It is so unpleasantly, well.... loud. I mean, they
> understood how cool trans blue was. What were they thinking when they made
> trans-fluoro-orange?
> [*] I think I've figured out that I judge a subtheme not by how good the
> colour scheme is, or by how good the parts are or how well they're used, • but
> by how much the sets inspire me to make something along their lines. For
> instance, my favourite Space sets (the 6887 and 6897) are my favourites
> precisely because they've inspired me to make MOCs that try and capture
> their look and feel on a different scale, with a different purpose.
> Blacktron 2 did that for me a lot, in general. I liked it.
> [*] Pity the Blacktron 2 'figs sucked so much though. :-(
> [*] At least Classic Space didn't have magnets.
>
> Good night everyone,
> Paul
>
>
>
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| (...) Wait a second. I happen to own all the Exploriens, and I did / do like them. I think the uniforms are nice. I just don't think they are up to par with the more classic sets, I.E. Classic Space, Futuron, Blacktron 1, and Mtron. The large vessel (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| Scott E. Sanburn wrote in message <38741E76.73300082@c...eb.net>... (...) On one point I feel moved to vigorously disagree with Scott and Todd. Exploriens did NOT suck! Quite the opposite! One little mistake with the design of a "useless" wing (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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