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Okay, when you look at the 8880 supercar, you see the body and overall design of the car is made almost entirely of lego beams. Same with the Airtech Claw Rig. These designs are made from almost exclusively from beams. Now, when you look at the most (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) It sort of started in 1998 with the 8417 Mag Wheel Master and the 8428 Turbo Command. These two sets mostly did away with using beams for the outer framework and had extensive usage of the flex cable sleeve tubing (this had been used before is (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Turbo (...) had (...) kind (...) last (...) axles (...) You know, I've been trying to get my hands on a mag wheel master now for quite some time, and it always seems to go just a hair out of my range...it just seems too new to me to be going (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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There's a mag wheel master on ebay right now for $37.00 (I think) Gary Krusty <surfside_guy@nospam...tmail.com> wrote in message news:G9v3Jn.B6F@lugnet.com... (...) Super (...) range...it (...) only (...) pneumatic (...) was (...) over (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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"blessing" <blessing@icefog.net> wrote in message news:G9v7sr.L81@lugnet.com... (...) awwww man, shhhh...that's on myebay right now...i got about 5 more hours... (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Krusty <surfside_guy@nospam...tmail.com> wrote in message news:G9vBqo.4Ir@lugnet.com... (...) hours... (...) errr....sorry, did you get it?? I missed it(sorta forgot about it ) Gary (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Actually, the earliest signs of this were in 1994. That's when the the flex-tubes began to see use as cosmetic elements (rather than just housings for the flex-cables, as they were conceived). Ironically, this is the same year that 8880 Supercar was (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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grrrrr....of COURSE not...the auction ended five minutes after I was able to drag my sorry ass out of bed to check. I was afraid to bid $0 for fear it would lead to false hope and sure enough, I'd have won at $40... well, I'll keep trying to get my (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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