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For those who'd rather see (poor) photos of the built thing, I've uploaded some William (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) lol inconsequential. They could sell (...) Priorities. Whether we agree with it or not, LD has stated that they can only offer so much at a time. So what gets offered and what doesn't? To you, the decision to offer technic beams is a (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic)
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In lugnet.technic, Gaurav Thakur writes: <snip> (...) There's currently 8 on Bricklink: (URL) they're expensive! TJ (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic)
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Some great points have been made here. I actually really like most of the new parts (particularly the various axle connectors), but it does seem that the functionality of the average Technic model is less advanced than that of five years ago. The (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)
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I can't answer your question, but there's one other thing you might also try. There is a third type of shock absorber with a spring rate in between the light gray and yellow shocks. These are the dark-gray* shocks. They may turn out to be sufficient (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I would agree, looking at the new technic, where are the big machinery type sets of old, like the "claw rig" and "crane"? It just seems to be lots of trendy styling with not a lot of functionality as with the old sets. These new styling bits (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)
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As some of you may know, I have been working on a truck-like MOC for the last several months. Anyway the model has become somewhat heavy at this stage and I think that I will have to replace the normal shock absorbers (small, light gray) currently (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I suspect this is very much the case judging from the tone of the comments. (I was in the audience at the event.) I think Lego Direct is very much aware of AFOLs wishes and wants and tries very hard to fit us into TLC's overall goal of (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The bit I had real trouble with was working out how to turn the turntable! Mind you, I've spent an awful long time fiddling around with gear trains for cat-tracks as I built a chassis that only needed one motor for forward/turn by using one of (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) This subject is curiously similar to the "how do we connect znap to system" issue. I posted some pictures of various ways of doing that on brickshelf ... (URL) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)
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