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Re: 8448 worth it?
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Sat, 3 Aug 2002 11:35:07 GMT
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Everyone seems to enjoy the shuttle and it looks like a well-rounded set
with nice electric and fiber optics. What's the cheapest I could probably
ever find an 8480 MISB...?
In lugnet.technic, Luke Ma writes:
> Jake,
> No prob. Glad I coule help. You're probably not going to find the 8448
> for $75 though...but here's to hoping that you do.
> I don't have the silver champion but I've read quite a bit about it and
> checked the inventory and all that. Your view of it seems pretty popular.
> It obviously is not 4wd. It has one damped pneumatic element (canopy above
> the engine opens up) but then again, the 8448 has a similar design for its
> racer alternate model. One thing that the 8458 does have that I'm
> interested in is a true wishbone suspension system. However, it's not
> really practical from a lego construction standpoint and when I say
> interested, I mostly just want to look at it/play with it and then be done
> with it. And $170 is really way to much...for that amount of money, go Buy
> It Now an 8480, get two styling packs from S@H and try to build an F1
> yourself with your 8466 parts :) I've read somewhere that for the price of
> an 8458, you might as well just get another 8448 and a couple of styling
> packs...did I mention the 8458 has a two-speed transmission? Yeah..it's got
> a v10 though. Whoopdy ;)
>
> Hope you get your $75 8448 :),
> Luke
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| If you're going to use it, why bother with MISB? You'd only pay collector's value.... I do own the Space shuttle. It's one of the first I got after the Dark Ages and it's one of the best Technic sets ever. It comes with two motors, fiber-optics, all (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8448 worth it?
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| Jake, No prob. Glad I coule help. You're probably not going to find the 8448 for $75 though...but here's to hoping that you do. I don't have the silver champion but I've read quite a bit about it and checked the inventory and all that. Your view of (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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