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Re: Studless Technic models
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Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:17:33 GMT
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"jrl" <jrl3d@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HrnyIK.1s2K@lugnet.com...
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> its own advantages, but that isn't the main issue. The studded beam was
> designed to use the new connection system while also maintaining • compatibility
> with the rest of the lego system. The amount of new technic parts has made
> studless building techniques viable, and the some builders have made • impressive
> models using these techniques, but if lego uses exclusively studless beams • in
> technic sets, they are essentially making technic into a separate building
> system that is largely incompatible with the rest of the lego system.
That's just not true. You can add stud-pins to the "studless" beams - and
the studs of regular lego sets also fit into the pin sockets snugly. Thus
compatibility is maintained.
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> does this cut down building options by not allowing you to take advantage • of
> both types of building techniques, It also goes against the core Lego • principle
> of universal compatibility.
Proven incorrect.
> I feel that this is a very bad move, especially at a
> time when the company has said that they are "getting back to basics" • because of
> recent financial troubles.
You're not going to get anywhere with the financial argument. I'd wager
that the 8455 will be one of the better selling Lego sets of all time - and
the cheaper studless Technic sets are great too. If I've ever seen a
candidate for re-release, 8455 is one.
Taking a building method that has proven so popular, and putting it down in
it's infancy is just silly. We have yet begun to see the coolest MOC's and
sets from TLC using the new construction methods afforded by studless beams.
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| (...) I didn't say that studless designs were totally incompatible with bricks, only that compatibility is greatly diminished. It is true that technic half-pins can be added to studless beams, but this takes a lot of pieces and these two techniques (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| I've been busy lately, so I wasn't really able to post on this topic earlier, but I feel I have some things to add. First, my opinion is that both studded and studless beams are useful. I have built machines that wouldn't have been possible without (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)
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