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Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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Date: 
Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:44:19 GMT
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"Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> writes:

To me, LEGO is about the imagination to create new things (or to
find ways to represent things)

It is pretty obvious to me that most real life shapes cannot be
accurately modeled in LEGO bricks.  To be able to enjoy LEGO building,
one must have the imagination to recognize complex but common shapes
(e.g. vehicles or characters) in the basic and primitive shapes that
LEGO has to offer.  This is the kind of imagination I was refering to.


not about the imagination to see pictures in the clouds.

I'm not sure what you mean with this.

Fredrik



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  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) <snip> (...) I am not sure exactly how Eric J. meant what he said to be taken but I read it as such... "not about the imagination to see something that isn't there" I think to at least a few of us we don't see a Stormtrooper. I know you see a (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) This is one of the greatest things about the variety of elements LEGO produces, IMHO -- there aren't (obviously) an infinite variety of LEGO shapes, but they've thought things through carefully enough to make a very decent variety that can (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)

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  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) That sounds like a good plan to me, (...) To me, LEGO is about the imagination to create new things (or to find ways to represent things), not about the imagination to see pictures in the clouds. (...) Not really. I know an entire household (6 (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)

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