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Re: LEGO Legends
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:37:15 GMT
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"Fredrik Glöckner" wrote:
> Perhaps Unimogs are not so common in the UK?
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 reason I thought the Lego model was odd
was that it didn't quite look like a "proper" tipper truck, and I had
never seen a tipper truck with a digger bucket on the front either!
> I've always thought that the 8846 tow truck looks like a Land Rover.
> I dunno if it is actually made to look like one, though. Do anybody
> else think it looks like the Land Rover?
It does a bit, although I don't know if I'd have thought so if you hadn't
mentioned it. The spare tyre on the bonnet is implying something
though...
> I remember that the only thing I disliked about the crane was the
> supports on the side. They had to be applied manually in a
> non-intuitive fashion.
I didn't mind the manual deployment of the supports, it was the fact that
they had no bracing and collapsed really easily that bothered me!
> It did? I never had the 852, nor did I pay too much attention to it.
> In fact, I thought it looked kinda boring. I never knew it was so
> complicated. Gotta take a look...
A mistake in my nomenclature: the blades don't tilt, the joysticks in the
cabin change the pitch of the blades, which is what I was thinking of
when I said tilt :-) This is even better than tilting though IMHO; the
thing that amazed me was that you could rotate the blades AND make this
happen! This really impressed me at the time - you can get an idea from
here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/0000/0852/0852-10.html
> The large foamy wheels off the 8848 Unimog and the 8859 blue tractor
> would be nice to have more of, though. However an accessory pack
> would suffice, not a complete rerelease of the sets.
I'm sure you can get these wheels as service packs from Shop at Home at
the moment.
Jennifer
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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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| (...) 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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