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Terry K wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
Amen!
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