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Re: Dear Lego, please stop doing whatever business thing you did that lead to the 8466 4x4 off-roader
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego
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Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:25:08 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Steven Lane writes:
> In lugnet.technic, Thomas Stangl writes:
> > Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> >
> > > That set has been, IMHO, (next to the 8431 Crane Truck re-issue) the best
> > > "really big" technic set in recent years (mindstorms doesnt count as technic)
> >
> > Others may not agree, since S@H has had to put it on 50% clearance twice to clear
> > out inventory.
> >
> > I too think it is a great parts set, except...
> >
> >
> > > The 8466 has so many good attributes:
> > > 1.a fair few studded beams, including the (exclusive to that set) l-shaped
> > > studded beam (its like 2 1x4 beams joined at right angles)
> > > 2.good specialist parts (like the 4x4 suspension parts for example)
> > > 3.a really cool color (LEGO, please make more parts in Metalic Green)
> >
> > You're the first person I've seen that likes the pea soup puke green. There's a
> > reason why those panels don't sell well on Bricklink. The color is hideous. It
> > was hideous when it started showing on real cars in the 70s, and it's still
> > hideous today (yet OEMs still occasionally sell a car in that nastly shade).
> >
> > I would bet that if they had used silver or dark silver in place of the puke
> > green, the set would have sold better. I know *I* have more puke green panels
> > than I know what to do with, so the spray paint is probably going to have to come
> > out to make them at all useful to me.
>
> The only thing that would make those parts useful to me would be a Lego
> recycling machine set on beam. (Is it possible to recycle worn Lego?)
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> I think people would much sooner have the 8880 which had a much superior 4x4
> mechanism and could be re-released as a classic, but you'd need a poll on
> the official Lego site to confirm this.
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> Steve
I'd rather have the 8466 over the 8880, even with the green panels--the 8880
is pretty neat, but overly complicated and doesn't have near the suspension
'out of the box' that the 8466 does. I find that if you want a car, the
8448 'blows the doors' off of 8880--most folks like the 8880 for one sole
reason--the black beams.
I modified the 8466 with the RC unit and motors from 8475 and what a blast
that was.
http://sparky.i989.net/legop4.htm
As soon as I get 2 more 8475 motors, I'm going to add 'em!
In a perfect world, if they were to bring back a large Technic set, for my
money it's the Space Shuttle--by far the best Technic out there, and the
only Technic set that I own that is still together.
Dave K
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