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Okay guys, let's get voting for the first technic set to be released in LEGO Legends. My top 3 (in random order) would be: 856, the old Bulldozer 8868, Airtech Claw Rig 8860, Chassis Don't tell me, 8880 is missing.... I hope they'll put that one in (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) If we limit ourselves to pre 1995 sets I'd go with: <set:8862 8862 Backhoe Grader> <set:856 856 Bulldozer> <set:8868 8868 Airtech Claw Rig> - David (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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I honestly think that the next Legends release will be an Auto Chassis or the Test Car. On www.lego.com in one of the Technic sections there is a little area dedicated to the Super Car family tree and the Auto Chassises (1) seem to be highly (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) This might be a silly question, but what exactly are "Lego legends"? Is Lego re-releasing some of the older sets of the past 20 years? This would be really neat... Anyway if this is the case, here are my top 3 favorites before 1995: 8868 (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) See: (URL) David (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Well, highly regarded by Kiernan and I, who do that section of LEGO.com (the BUILD section) and put together that Super Car article. I would hesitate to jump to any conclusions based on our editorial choices. =) Tomas Clark tclark@halfrobot.com (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Excellent work, I enjoyed it very much. - David (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Yes, well done! I enjoyed it too. Gary #801 David Arnon <arnon@NOSPAMsilicon-value.com> wrote in message news:GEqG6K.L4n@lugnet.com... (...) (the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hmmm... Here is the list of MOL (my own legends): 856, 8855, 8859, 8860, 8862, 8868, 8880, 8448, 8460, and 8480 and honorable mentions: 855, 8856, 8422, 8459, 8479 But 8422, 8448, 8459, 8460, 8479 and 8480 are quite new to became a legend, so (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) All these numbers are very confusing, apart from 8462 I don't know the numbers of any sets and can't be arsed to look them up. Can't people use the proper names? Steve (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) (The yellow bulldozer from the late Seventies) I built this recently from the instructions on Brickshelf and it is pretty good, and was certainly a killer set in its time... but compared with some of the more modern sets with pneumatics and so (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) At least for me the numbers are easier. First of all that's the way I think about a set: I think: 853,8860,8865,8880,8448 and not: PKW, Auto Chassis, Test Car, Super Car, Super Car Mk II. The name could be very confusing - what's the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The bulldozer has, like, two functions? You can push it along, too, though. And both the functions use the same principle, a sliding rack which pushes a lever. Honestly, I think this is a rather boring display of technic functions, especially (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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"Steven Lane" <Steveroblane@aol.com> wrote in message news:GErMIK.1Hn@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) Can't usually be arsed to look up the proper names for sets, and as I'm used to dutch names for sets I wouldn't know what americans call them. I (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Just curious: what year were you born? Duq "Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:qrdelsrjfvx.fsf....uio.no... (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) 1972, why? The 856 bulldozer was one of the sets I really wanted when I was a child. I never got it, however. I had a few of the other smaller, early Technic sets, though: The yellow forklift, the red tractor and the mobile crane. I liked the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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I seem to like the 855/955 Mobile crane too, a very sturdy model, pieces don't fall off this one. But i would like to see a 857/8857 Motorbike to be release, as i like it design? But 8868 and 8460 is a most wanted items that i wish to see again!! SO (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Steve, Where's the hassle cutting & pasting a few lines into the Lugnet search window? You get a nice picture of each set (usually) which is worth 1000 words. If you "can't be arsed to look them up", why should you expect others to aid your (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) dreaming that Lego would do for over five years now. (...) Yeah...actually I've been only been able to get on my computer once or twice a week. (stupid final exams in school) (...) If sets after 1995 will also be re-released, this would be my (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Define proper in this context? The US name, the UK name, the Oz name, the german name, something else? A set number, with rare exception, is definitive and can be looked up by anyone that cares to make a small effort. So I would say that (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Actually I don't want to be didactic in front of a technic guru, but after playing with this much of technic sets, any technic set could be considered as boring. Let's check some sets: 8448 (1999) (1) * V8 engine with functioning fan * 5+1 (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I think we can do a little detective work to predict what a Technic Legend might be... I (and clearly many others in other groups) suggest that TLC chose the Guarded Inn for three main reasons (and I'll stick my neck out and say I have ranked (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Aha! Suddenly it all makes sense! I remember when they released this set thinking "what on earth is that supposed to be?"; it seemed to be a real hybrid type of vehicle the like of which I'd never seen before. But sure enough, it does bear an (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I remember this exactly, a friend of mine had the bulldozer and I was so jealous of him! Aside from the set as a whole, I think the parts I coveted most would have to be the 4 large gears, the caterpillar tracks and the side parts of the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Two mistakes in my last post: 1. 8860 wheels would need to be remade. 2. I missed the 853 original Auto Chassis as I was only looking for numbers beginning with 8. There it is at No. 34 but known as a 956. A possible contender as it's just the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I can only say me too! I did have the old pre-Technic gears and chain links, but I did not have the new wide ones from the bulldozer. I think that if I had gotten it at the time, I would have been disappointed. The new wide treads have much (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Perhaps Unimogs are not so common in the UK? I remember recognizing it at once as a child. I didn't know that it was called "Unimog", but I did know that it looked like "those large lorries used by the road construction guys"... I've always (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I've certainly not noticed many (any?) of them kicking about here, although I am prepared to be proven wrong on this. I gather they are popular in construction and agricultural use, but I've never come across them in that capacity either. The (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I saw one once (in the uk) strangely enough it was on the road directly off the one where I live. It was coming up the hill towards me, riding on large balloon tyre's it was rather impressive and larger than I imagined. It was pulling a (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) somewhere else to be patronised. Seriously though, I never said don't put the number just put the name as well. Several of the others already add the name, and when discussing Technic verbally no one's gonna say 8480 instead of Space Shuttle. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) That was it!!! I knew I knew them from somewhere as a kid even though you never see them on the road. A friend of mine had a Britains one too! Thanks Steve Psi (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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I had the forklift, tractor, helicopter and bulldozer. As has by now been mentioned in a few posts, at the time the bulldozer was great. Think about how you'd make a bulldozer with the parts that were available at the time. Indeed the bucket would (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Simon Bennett <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:GEtyF1.3tz@lugnet.com... (...) so (...) They might seem unknown and unseen, but they are actually a bit more common than you think. The SWEB (south western electricity board) can (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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"Steven Lane" <Steveroblane@aol.com> wrote in message news:GEtx5s.n13@lugnet.com... (...) off (...) large (...) The is one around Canterbury - it is used by a forestry company and looks like is would not be stopped by anything! It certainly makes (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) No not a 'real' Landrover, your not the first person to tell me that. You Landover fans are very vociferous about this :-), their good enough for the Paris-Dakar endurance event though. Whenever I drive into town along the Smallheath highway I (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Here, they (The Mercedes Unimogs) are mostly used by military as a transport mainly, but also for too many other purposes (from field ambulance to airport fire engine), but our highway repair department also have quite much of them, mostly (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I read an article late last year that Unimog was preparing a consumer vehicle to be sold as an SUV in the US. Shudder. (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well, yeah. That's sort of the thing with the Legends idea. Without refering back to Brad's post, he mentioned that a Legends set would be the first in a line or an early outstanding example. This is a problem with Technic, because the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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BULK BEAMS! *that* would be legendary... Build On! John Matthews Duq <Duq@nlgateway.net> wrote in message news:GEor10.3Dq@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Make that bulk 1x16 beams and you get my vote. Unfortunately I think Technicheads are likely to be out of luck from legends for quite a while. As most of the discussion in this thread shows, the sets we're interested in are just too expensive (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I'm starting to think I'm the only one that's satisfied with the owned amount of beams, and I don't think I own that many. What are you folks using such amounts for? Only time I wanted more (of one color) was during the Hercules project, but (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I have well over 100 1x16 beams. It's not enough. For an example of a project that used a lot, go to brickbots.com and look at my entry for the "cross an open gap" competetion. (URL) this didn't use anything like all my large beams, I usually (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) This (URL) uses a large percentage of my non-black 1x16s & 1x12s, and this (URL) is currently using all my black beams down to 1x10, except the ones I just re-claimed from this (URL) and I've only completed about 1/4 of one side of the arch. (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I here by rest my case :) /Tobbe (URL) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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