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Counting functions
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lugnet.technic
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Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:56:17 GMT
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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:
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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.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mark Cogan marq@arttoday.com +1-520-881-8101
> ArtToday www.arttoday.com
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) You have a point there; I have the 8458 (got suckered into buying it from the look) and it is extremely overpriced for what you get. It comes with some very impressive wheels and lots of decoration pieces and looks very realistic when built. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Information on the 8485 Control Center II
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| Whenn this set appeared a few years ago, I was amazed by the picture, but the price was just too much for me ($219 USD). I therefore bypassed it. Today one of my neighbors who is not interested in Lego anymore informed me that he wants to sell some (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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