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| | | (...) Many of the LoM & bigger Star Wars sets have a smattering of technic bits. ROSCO (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | Re: Is "traditional" Technic being killed off? —Ray Sanders
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| | | | (...) Dino Head Attack had 7 technic bricks in it (including a 1x16 in black), Gungan Sub had 2 1x16s in blue, four in the droid dev kit, etc. So the pcs are out there, just bits here and there. Ray (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Is "traditional" Technic being killed off? —John Heins
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| | | | (...) I'm not denying that there are SOME traditional Technic parts out there but they are few and far between (except for in RIS sets). You will spend a small fortune in trying to obtain a quantity comparable to what you used to get with ANY large (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | RE: Is "traditional" Technic being killed off? —William Howard
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| | | | | (...) Gungan (...) out (...) SNIP (to save space) (...) Hear, hear! I'll agree with all of that and put myself up to be shot at as well! Happened to be in a very well known large department store in London, UK today ... 5yr old comes back with Mum, (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | | Re: Is "traditional" Technic being killed off? —Steven Lane
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| | | | | | (...) Oh bugger, competition! Steve (a fellow brit) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | | | RE: Is "traditional" Technic being killed off? —William Howard
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| | | | | | (...) You can 'have' the two 8862's currently up as I've already got one (actually the first set I owned, closely followed by 8868 - and in my opinion the range has gone down hill from there with only a few exceptions (OK about 20 exceptions!)) :-) (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Is "traditional" Technic being killed off? —Ron Sedlmeyer
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| | | | | | (...) Speaking of which, if you look closely at both of them, the pnemuatic cylinder for the "back hoe" section are different. One has a yellow top, the other has a black top. Why the difference? Ron (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | 8862 pneumatic cap colours (spawned from is technic being killed off) —William Howard
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| | | | | | There are now FOUR - they're breeding! (1707421982, 1707421982, 1706796599 and 1706922538) - the last one has yellow cylinder caps and also the pump cap! Mine has black caps. Wonder if its to do with the age of the model as I've seen instructions (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | RE: 8862 pneumatic cap colours (spawned from is technic being killed off) —William Howard
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| | | | | | Looks like it was an age thing (URL) William -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...net.com]On Behalf Of William Howard Sent: 19 February 2002 23:34 To: lugnet.technic@lugnet.com Subject: 8862 pneumatic cap (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 8862 pneumatic cap colours (spawned from is technic being killed off) —Rebecca Taylor
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| | | | | | (...) All the cylinders that came with my JCB, and those illustrated in the instructions were all-yellow. The exra cylinder I ordered from the spares service came with a black cap which annoyed me a bit at the time (I was a lot younger). The (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 8862 pneumatic cap colours (spawned from is technic being killed off) —Pehter Abrahamsson
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| | | | | | Same here, all yellow accept the pump cap. That model was apperently in two revisions, one early with all yellow cylinders with 4.5 V motor instruction and one with black and yellow cylinders with 9V motor instruction. My instructions have black and (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: Is "traditional" Technic being killed off? —Allan Bedford
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| | | | (...) This is the economy of lost profits that the company doesn't seem to understand. They could undercut prices found on eBay and through private sellers and *still* make more money than they're making now. If they don't get this theory, they (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)
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