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Re: Call me a Lego pureist if you will but...
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Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:37:38 GMT
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Jennifer Clark (<3AED4F3D.37EA4C7D@vulture.dmem.str
ath.ac.uk>) wrote at 11:40:45
> Tony Priestman wrote:
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> > If they didn't make so many bad pieces that they can *only* find
> > 'creative' uses for, the sets would have more useful parts that *we* can
> > be creative with.
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> I have wondered about this occasionally, as admittedly I have yet to find
> any use for these parts in my own creations, but I most often end up
> thinking it is due to my mindset being locked in the "old ways" rather than
> the parts being deficient. It also took a while for me to get used to the
> liftarms, half beams and so on when I emerged from the "dark ages" a year
> or so ago, so perhaps given time I will find uses for these new parts too.
Ahh, but traditionally, the old ways are the best ways ;-)
From a psychological point of view, it's probably easier to imagine that
a uniform brick has a different form, than it is to imagine that a thing
with a definite shape is something else. (IANAP :-)
> > That crane truck, or whatever it's supposed to be, was probably the set
> > that brought my Technic buying to a halt.
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> Shame that, while I will admit the set has its dubious points, technically
> it is impressive in a very sublime way; I found that it grew on me over
> time. The chassis, for example, is very well done and I imagine the crane
> arm would have taken a lot of work to get right. Of course, sublime
> technicality is not for everyone :-)
Think of the NASA space pen & the Russian pencil. I'm a pencil man :-)
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> The appearance of the Moxy alternative model is fantastic though, IMHO.
>
> Jennifer
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Tony Priestman
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