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Re: Technic's Dead (was: I need Technic)
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lugnet.technic
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Sat, 10 Aug 2002 05:10:36 GMT
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Interesting, but not actually relevant to technic being dead.
I've got to say, that even with the new technic liftarms being cheap(er) to
produce, that doesn't explain why lego are suddenly making the bionicle
bodies and arms- these super specialised pieces must require huge numbers of
moulds! What with lego technic having gone the way of the dinosaur, the
original technic market is going to skyrocket, which is bad news for
collectors (good for lego, though!) Personally, I think a petition to Kjeld
Kirk (the big cheese of lego) is in order- tell him to change his ways-
these new Bionicles are kiddy toys!
In lugnet.technic, Ralph Hempel writes:
> > Yes, I'd bet Technic bricks are more expensive to produce, because they
> > require more pieces in the mold. To make a standard brick, you'd only need
> > a two-piece mold - one piece for the bottom, to make the inside hollow, and
> > another piece for the top. To make a TECHNIC brick, my untrained eye sees a
> > four-piece mold, because there are hollows on four sides of the brick.
> > There's the hollow underside, the hollow studs on top, and each side has a
> > hollow around each pin hole (the pin hole itself could be molded by the
> > mold-piece for either side).
> >
> > This leads to another molding comparision: TECHNIC bricks and smooth beams.
> > With smooth beams, you're back to a two-piece mold: one piece for each side
> > of the beam. There are no hollows on the top or bottom of the parts, just
> > the hollows around the pin holes.
> >
> > So it seems pretty likely that smooth beams are much cheaper to produce than
> > TECHNIC bricks.
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| (...) Steve, My Dad was one of the mold design and production managers at Husky Injection Molding way back when. I can tell you that LEGO bricks in general have a degree of mold complexity that is very high. There are a number of technical hurdles, (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic) !
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