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Re: 8448 worth it?
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Date: 
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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  Re: 8448 worth it?
 
(...) 40 quid. At least that's what I paid. Steve (22 years ago, 3-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
  Re: 8448 worth it?
 
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 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: 8448 worth it?
 
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 (...) (22 years ago, 3-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)

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