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(...) I hardly think so. The alternative would be to have new molds for the specific parts like the Stormtrooper helmet or hands or feet or... Do we want that? (I don't.) Another alternative would be to have large stickers or printed parts to make (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I dunno: seems like it'd be awfully drafty... Ran [Imagining a ring of minifig archers surrounding a Technic-walled castle, cackling "Haha! Baldur was right: it *is* just like shooting fish in a barrel!"] (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Your message appears to indicate that the old medium sized technic steering wheel is not useful in racing cars or that it is wrongly scaled. How so? What is it you dislike about it? I think the old medium sized technic steering wheel fits just (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Ahh but TLG's designers Arn't limited to the "currently available range of LEGO pieces". They can design new parts if needed. I think the main problem is the head and all that would have required is some sort of molded mask that looked like a (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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In lugnet.starwars, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) I think thats probably as close as you are going to get to what happened. I have a feeling these will be on clearence in no time. (...) No thats saying something comming from you!!! (...) Agreed, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic, lugnet.year.2001)
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This isn't meant to be directed at anyone in particular, but given the currently available range of LEGO pieces that have been seen in Technic sets lately, could anyone out there have done better? TLG's designers did a reasonably good job, given (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I am really looking forward to this set, not as a set but as a parts pack. Its the only set to date that has the small decorative panels in white. It also has a number of other parts in white and some in black. Plus its the only set that has (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic, lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) I completely agree. They are plain ugly and utterly disappointing. And I can't see any mechanical functions other than the stupid launching thing in the hands of trooper. They don't have even the elegance/close resemblance of the same series (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) C-3PO is the better of the two, but they're both pretty bad. I think the problem here is both sets were guys in suits, as opposed to last year's technic droids which were all cgi constructs. Plus, half the appeal of last year's droids was that (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(URL) set number 8242. It looks like lego has finally come up with a decent steering wheels for race cars. and it looks like it would fit the scale of technic figs. Geordan (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Some of both I'm sure : ) (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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Is there any news on real technic sets yet? I don't see those create n race things or any other decent sets in the scans that are available now. To me those Roboriders, Slizers and what have you are all transformers that happen to use the odd LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
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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 (...) (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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Almost completely agree. I just think the battle droid is an awesome bit of engineering. The other droids are overpriced merchandising. Then again, what do you expect when paying for two badges? Duq (...) worth (...) bet (...) has (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) It's not that -- it's that it doesn't look like a Stormtrooper. --Todd (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic, lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) Eh? Which? That they're ripoffs of Stormtroopers, or that the Technic Stormtrooper looks like a Cylon? eric (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I have no problem with the fact that they made a non-machine. I have a problem with the fact that it bears nothing but the most passing of resemblences to a Stormtrooper. eric (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Who says that just because it's technic, it has to be a machine? We can build anything we want with LEGO System- buildings, vehicles, animals, and even sculptures of people. Why is Technic so limited then? Yes, it has tradionally been an all (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) ...which was to prove Eric's original point, which I heartily agree with. :-) Here's the original for comparison: (URL) They look the same. ;-) (...) Ahh -- yes! Not that there's anything wrong with Cylons. :-) (...) I think they were (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic, lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) well you get 2 of those in orange in the boss roborider I think so its not the rarest (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
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