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Re: Studless Technic models
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 22 Jan 2004 05:07:36 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, David Laswell wrote:
> In lugnet.technic, James Loewen wrote:
[snip]
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> > I think that Mindstorms is a good example of the sudden changes in Technic
> > because it is only 2-3 years old,
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> Try 5-6. RIS 1.0 came out in 1998.
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> > ...uses stud connections for all the electronic components, and it seems
> > like Lego doesn't think that maintaining compatibility between it and the
> > new Technic sets is a priority.
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> For all that they keep saying that Mindstorms isn't dead, we haven't really seem
> much lately to suggest that it's all that alive either. Anyways, doesn't the
> RCX itself have pin holes that can be used to attach it to stuff? I agree that
> it doesn't make sense to make the various Mindstorms gizmos incompatible with
> the modern TECHNIC sets, but I see that more as a problem with designing them to
> be incompatible with TECHNIC connections in the first place. If they do revive
> Mindstorms for the retail market, hopefully they'll make it fully TECHNIC
> compatible this time.
In fact the RCX *does* have pin holes. Only four of them, but they are there.
Two half pin holes on each side.
[snip]
I guess I'm not the only one who was lots of energy about the studless beam
bashing.
Kevin
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| (...) Exactly. And the more reinforcements you have to add, the more _extra_ pieces it requires. To my mind, that's no different than requiring a similar number of extra pieces in instances where you desire full System compatibility. (...) Both (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)
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