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Re: Minifig Segway
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lugnet.town
Date: 
Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:31:45 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Thomas Atkinson wrote:
   Excellent! The minifig was well chosen too as a character you’re likely to see riding around. My first look at it had me laughing and I had to look again hours later. I suppose a “mall cop” variant will need to be built as well.

Now if you can only get a few of those to run around a layout... hmmmm.

I’m glad you like it. I know that some Space builders have “motorized” cars by using magnets (example: here; the YouTube links still work), so maybe something could be done with the Segway, too. The parts I used are pretty common, so it shouldn’t be hard for someone (with more resources than myself) to build enough for a tour group something similar.

Daniel Patten



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  Re: Minifig Segway
 
(...) First person I know of who pulled that off was Steve Ringe from MichLUG, and he did it to have driving cars on a Town/Train layout. (...) It might be harder than you think. The Segway is a pretty small model, so I think the easiest way to pull (...) (15 years ago, 18-Jul-09, to lugnet.town, FTX)

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  Re: Minifig Segway
 
Excellent! The minifig was well chosen too as a character you're likely to see riding around. My first look at it had me laughing and I had to look again hours later. I suppose a "mall cop" variant will need to be built as well. Now if you can only (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jul-09, to lugnet.town, FTX)

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