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On Sat, 8 May 1999 22:59:58 GMT, "Jonas Marcho" <BolaHead@msn.com> wrote:
> 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 Pirate sets.
>
> The Black Seas Barracuda took me around five hours to build but then again I
> made it when I was around 9 or 10 and my skill wasn't as refined as today.
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> This new red sports car I see coming out this Summer for Technic Build looks
> really, really hard. It had better be, right?
Probably not as hard as the Super Car was. Or the Big Rig Truck - the 1700+
piece set. That was an exhausting set. Dumping all those pieces out in
not-so-little piles, and then having to search through them to find pieces.
And both those sets had a lot of black pieces - very hard to distinguish which
is which in a pile of all-black pieces. (1)
The only thing more headache-inducing than building them was taking them apart
and sorting all the pieces. :-/
-- Terry K --
1. Not to be misconstrued as a complaint. I wish TLG would make more BIG
models with high piece counts. Specifically, Model Team sets.
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| (...) Which reminds me, I haven't seen a discussion on piece-sorting for a while. After buying all the SW sets (1), I have well over 1.8 jazillion pieces to sort, categorize, and cram into my soon-to-be-overflowing drawer system. Has this new theme (...) (26 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 8-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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