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Subject: 
Re: It's Fantasmagorical!!!
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lugnet.build, lugnet.town
Date: 
Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:55:58 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, John Neal wrote:

There are some clever building techniques, mostly as a result from
consultations with my 12 year son, Ross;-)

"A child shall lead them" eh?

Hope you enjoy my fine, four-fendered friend!

Very nice indeed. Lots of charming touches and it really captures the spirit of
one of my favorite movies well (1)... but leaving Truly out... that truly is a
shame. Did you consider the adventurers car cockpit at all?

My biggest question, however, is why this MOC (basically 6 wide with extensions)
is in a folder called "8-wide" instead of in its own? One might suspect you were
trying to drum up view counts for the folder, unless one already knew of your
totally innocent (2) and undevious nature. :-)

All ribbing aside, (and noting the lack of wing ribs), it's still a great model.
Spotlighted.

1 -  I feel the Van Dyke brothers are cinematically underappreciated... the one
(Cold Turkey: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066927/ ) where an entire town tries
to stop smoking is also a classic!

2 - In the sense of not too sophisticated, evinced by your use of a Mac for most
things...

++Lar



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(...) lol WWJB;-) (...) Yes, but it has been so long since I built it I can't remember why I rejected it. There were issues IIRC... (...) lol I have come to consider "8wide" as more of a scale than a simple description, but I have also come to (...) (21 years ago, 4-Sep-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, FTX)

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  It's Fantasmagorical!!!
 
(2 URLs) Here is an MOC of the star of one of my all-time favorite movies, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Though I built her over a year ago, I've only recently taken the time to snap off some pics (The girth of the minifigs necessitated that I exclude (...) (21 years ago, 4-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, FTX) !! 

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