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In lugnet.starwars, eric@nospam.thirteen.net (Lorbaat) writes:
> [...] And I found that as I built the
> sets- especially the Y-Wing/TIE and Podracer sets, I experienced a sort of...
> umm, Lego building exhaustion. Now, I'll grant you, in both cases I was
> putting together all the sets in one marathon building session... but this
> still worries me. Have the new sets caused some sort of... attention span
> deterioration in me for building? [...]
I just thought of another thing -- little sets almost never tire me out --
and neither do little within a big set. What really exhausts my brain is
the large building instruction booklets -- because I have to compare each
step with the previous step to see what's changed and if I've missed
anything.
When this means building up a base from the baseplate, it's not a big deal,
but when this means building a sub-structure and then placing the sub-
structure upon the main structure, it's no fun because that step of the
instructions often includes a few little pieces around the edges as well as
the substructure. The pain of this type from building 6198 Sting Ray
Stormer is still fresh in my mind! :-p
I like what many of the Technic instruction booklets do: Give a list of
pieces needed for each step. And I've seen some instructions even highlight
the pieces (by lightening the background around it) within the steps.
--Todd
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| I know what you mean, Todd. I shelled out $89 for the Mos Espa Pod Race and had it built in about ten-fifteen minutes. The same thing used to happen with the UFO sets. The only System sets that ever gave me even an inch of challenge were the larger (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| Just imagine the average child that does not the legostamina that we do. They must get exausted even sooner. How did TLG solve that problem? Town jr. Of course it could be the other way, Town jr. atrophied our building skillz. Jorge Rodriguez (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| Regarding Building exhaustion. Recently finished off the top of my Millennium Falcon model and that took a tole on me. Was up till 4:30 am working on it and finally had to go to sleep. Woke up two hours later and finished it. For the circular saucer (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| On Sat, 8 May 1999 20:02:02 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following profundities... (...) That was common in the instructions of old. I had forgotten about that until I had downloaded the instructions from 565, my 1st set I can remember. Each step (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| Yesterday I managed to buy a bunch of old Lego from someone including all of the original instructions, etc. So today, I gathered a couple friends and sorted and built most of the sets, after seven hours of this I became exhausted, so I'll finish (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| Ok, I have now bought and assembled all of the Star Wars sets. Being a huge fan of both Star Wars and Legos, these sets are a dream come true for me. On the one hand, they're Star Wars, and on the other hand- they're a return to the Lego sets of (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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