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Re: Silver Champion Experience
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Sat, 16 Dec 2000 02:27:19 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Robert Enloe writes:
> I've seen the Silver Champion in a couple catalogs, and online why xmas
> shopping, and always thought it was impressive, but the price tag has always
> turned me off to buying one. Untill... I was strolling through the local
> TRU over the weekend and happened to see a few 8458's on the shelf. And was
> just blown away by the size, and how incredibly cool it looked. But still
> turned off by the price I left and went home. While at home I couldn't stop
> thinking about it, so I got back in my car, drove back to TRU, and bought
> it! ($183 later ouch! damn tax...) This is the first set I've bought in
> almost 5 years, my last set being the 8880. (still built and on my shelf
> today! just an awsome set!)
Yeah, when I saw this thing in the LS@H catalogs, I was really impressed and
decided to grab one right away, thinking that it would have lots of
functions (the description said "many realistic details") and great looks
combined into one package, which hasn't been done too often. Although like
you, I was quite dissapointed. when I built the set.
Yup...I agree...8880 is a really nice model, they have pretty much packed
everything in that would exist in a real car.
> Anyways, 8 hours later, the car was finished. And well, I wasn't that
> impressed, I mean functionallity wise, I was just expecting more. And
> stregnth wise, well the model just seams flakey, and like its going to fall
> apart. I was kinda dissapointed. Size wise it is just awsome though! 26
> inches long! And then I got my 8880 down off the shelf and set it next to
> the 8458, and suddenly was a little more impressed. It also looks
> incredible! (although the 8880 is still FAR MORE STURDY!) This is my first
> set with the "new" style technic (funny wings, bendable tubes etc..) I no
> longer felt like I should of bought a different set. (SW collector series).
> I remembered the next day at work that there was an online supplement. So I
> checked it out and really liked the model they offered instructions for
> online. When I got home later that night I proceeded to tear my newly
> assembled car apart to build the model I saw online. But quickly ran into
> allot of problems...
That's a bit strange; when I built it I thought it was exceptionally strong;
in fact the only set I thought was stronger was the 8462 model from 1998.
Although yeah, the functionality could have been better. The suspension is
kinda cool and realistic, but I was really expecting a transmission system
and/or a motor. $170 is way too much for a model IMHO that is pretty much
all looks.
> <RANT>
> The online instructions SUCK! Has anyone really looked at them closely? I
> quickly reviewed all of them at work earlier in the day, but didn't pay much
> attention to the details of each page. And boy am I sorry I didn't start
> till 11pm last night. I ended up finishing at like 3:30 AM! What can I say,
> I'm like those Pringles commercials, once you start you can't stop! Of cours
> e This should really of only taken like 3 hours at most, but If you've seen
> the instruction pages you know why. The graphics are TERRIBLE, low
> resolution, very hard to make out, often there are wrong parts called for,
> or not called for at all. The colors denoting which tubes/straw peices to
> use aren't colored correctly in over half the inventory boxes. And worst of
> all, the have you start with the basic Chassis from the Silver Champ, but
> DON'T tell you which step you should start from out of your instruction book
> that came with the set! (Step 59 if anyone is interested)
> Allot of the sub-structures weren't easy to tell how to put together for one
> side, So I had to skip ahead to the opposite side to see how to properly put
> them together.
> </RANT>
Hehe...I seem to have the same problem; I'll just keep on building until the
thing is finished. And yeah, the online instructions really need some work.
Were you even able to finish the online model? When I downloaded the
instructions using Lego's BIT utility (quite a tedious process, each set
needs to be downloaded one-by-one), not only was the resolution terrible and
the colors messy, but the instructions weren't even complete. The last step
showed the car only partially finished, which was a bit of a dissapointment,
since from the pictures it seemed that this model might have been a fairly
good build.
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