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Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic
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Wed, 25 Oct 2000 21:52:36 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
> I guess I don't understand any of these technic maxi-figures. I bought a
> Battle Droid to see what kind of tan parts I could get, but it wasn't worth it.
> I didn't buy the Pit Droid or the Droideka sets, either.
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> C-3PO look intseresting mostly because there are some cool gold bits, but...
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> I dunno. What the heck is the point of these things?
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> eric
My wife suprised me with the Pit Droid last Valentine's Day, and while I really
like it for sentimental reasons, I've done just about nothing with the parts. I
like to think of myself as "old school" in regards to Technic, but I'm sure that
others would call me unimaginative to put it politely; Either way, I prefer good
old fashioned technic beams. These new stud-less angled beams and misc. plastic
bits are too specialized, IMO. I know that they make possible all sorts of
different shapes, but...it hardly seems like Lego sometimes. I remember someone
in lugnet.robotics wrote a while back that "Znap is only marginally compatible
with Lego," and that's how I'm starting to feel about Technic. Anyway, I
expected the Stormtrooper to be something more akin to the Battle Droid...more
elegant, perhaps...more recognizable (as someone in this thread just said.
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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| Phew, that's a relief! Thought I was the only conservative left in Technic Lego... Duq "James Simpson" <jsimpson@rice.edu> wrote in message news:G30A3o.A1x@lugnet.com... (...) sure that (...) prefer good (...) plastic (...) of (...) someone (...) (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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| (...) I accept your point when it applies to some extreme examples of this, and I too sometimes find myself questioning the relevance of certain official lego models, but I do not see that this can be applied globally. Many of these parts (half (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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| (...) of (...) I know how you feel. Same here.. That brings up an interesting question, I wonder what people said when someone invented the wheel? "Oh no, not another specialised piece to handle... How to use that ugly thingy in my boat.." Are we (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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| (...) I don't get it either. It definitely is ugly, and I agree, I wouldn't have been able to guess what it was if a third-grader showed me and made me guess. I guess I don't understand any of these technic maxi-figures. I bought a Battle Droid to (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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