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Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic
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Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:19:17 GMT
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Bradley Dale wrote:
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> In lugnet.starwars, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > This has to be one of the ugliest things I have seen! If they didn't tell me
> > what it was I would have never guessed it was a Stormtrooper.
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> > http://collectibles.echostation.com/fbtb/2/techsw03.jpg
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> > I really, really, really hope LEGO didn't think that a Stormtrooper was a
> > Robot. :-(.
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> > I now know at least one 2001 set I won't be buying.
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> > Eric Kingsley
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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?
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Actually, my beef isn't that it doesn't look like a stormtrooper, or
that it doesn't use beams, or that it's not a vehicle. It's that, as far
as I can tell, it doesn't *do* anything.
Technic, for me, has always been about building *functional* models --
models that did stuff, and didn't just sit there. Way back before my
dark age, when the first Technic models came out, I use to look over the
catalog and memorize which models had which "functions" -- the yellow
fork lift (which I had) had working steering and a working lift (two
functions); the red tractor had steering and a working farming
attachment (two functions), and the big 'PKW' car had steering,
transmission, an engine, and adjustable seats (four functions!).
I still look at new Technic sets and count the functions. That's one of
the reasons I won't be buying any of the 2000 Technic vehicles -- they
don't do much -- certainly not when you compare them to amazing sets
like the shuttle (8480) or the supercars (8880 and 8448). The Silver
Champion, as far as I can tell, has steering and an engine -- for $180!
I can't shake the feeling that, on the "important" level, it's no better
than that 1977 yellow forklift.
So, when I saw the C3P0 and Stormtrooper pictures, I looked for
"functions". And I don't see any. The 2000 Star Wars technic models all
"do things" -- in the case of the Destroyer Droid, it does one very
complex thing with amazing intricacy. But it looks like the 2001 sets
are, um, poseable. And that's it. (The gun-dingus that the Stormtrooper
has doesn't count).
I might buy them for parts, and if I do, I'll build the models once, but
I don't think they're things I'll re-build. And I don't think that I'll
go stealing assemblies or design ideas from them for other models, like
I keep doing with 8480.
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Mark Cogan marq@arttoday.com +1-520-881-8101
ArtToday www.arttoday.com
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Counting functions
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| To be fair, the Silver Champion offers the additional "functions" of independent suspension at the four wheels and the damped movement of one body part. In lugnet.starwars, Mark Cogan writes: <snip> (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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| (...) How cool! That is just what I did when I was a child. I always compared Technic sets by the number of distinct working functions. I had almost forgotten this by now, and was happily reminded of this by your post. My fav model as a child was (...) (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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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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