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Re: Bi*nicle folks went away?
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:35:33 GMT
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I personally think the objections to Bionicle here is the storyline side,
not the building side. The storyline just has little interest in those of
us who are not into the fantasy aspect of LEGO. I have to admit having the
same feeling reading some of the other groups, like castle, from time to
time.
But mechanically, the Bionicle and related toys are interesting. In
particular, I noticed (I have 3 boys, and Bionicles are very popular) that
the new ball-like things have a 3-long gray "free rotation" pin. That is
something that could be really useful. They also have some body pieces and
gear-ended arms that are very interesting; they are of the new "combo"
spur-and-bevel type.
At the same time, and worthy of discussion here, some of the parts are just
plain "done wrong". The "hand" pieces have an axle molded out of them at an
odd place. It would have been so much more useful if it just had an axle
hole there. And the prevalence of stiff ball joints is clearly for "action
figure" type use, rather than serious ball-and-socket joints that I would
rather have. But the point is that I think this is worthy of discussion in
this newsgroup.
So don't knock the mechanical aspects of Bionicle. It is making money for
LEGO, and it is getting lots of LEGO designer time as a result. Maybe that
is shortening the list for serious technic, but we have always been subject
to what will sell.
From what I have seen, the best Technic AFOL designers use everything they
can get. Here is a challenge: Build the best version of one of these
folding-ball dudes from "regular" technic.
--Jack Gregory
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| This is somewhat off-topic but has anyone else noticed that the background Bi*nicle noise is gone? A dreadful visit to .technic.bionicle gives that there is now days between the posts... Hope we did not scare AFOL's away from Lugnet but I must say (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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