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Re: New Dinosaurs
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lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:57:44 GMT
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In lugnet.year.2001, Norman Mensing writes:

I'm not sure yet what to say about the Spionsaurus. At first sight it looked
very unlego-ish to me. But after I had a closer look, I might change my mind:

The front and the rear part of the torso look like it's two identical parts,
which you can put arms or legs (probably in different sizes) and a neck or a
tail piece on.

It's actually *4* parts.  Not identical.  You have seen that it is divided
symmetrically from side to side, making what you think are two identical parts
in the front and back- it's also divided from front to back symetrically, so
the body is actually four seperate peices (according to pictures I have seen).
This means you can vary the length and width of the body by inserting bricks!

That's modular, but still not Lego.

Well, I for one feel that it's a pretty LEGO way of making organic creatures in
a modular way.

eric



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(...) After having another look, I agree happily. The more parts, the better. (...) Unfortunately, you snipped the rest of my post. The next sentence was begining with "But". I only wanted to say that at that point I did not see any typical (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001)

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  New Dinosaurs
 
(...) Actually we should love those new Raptors and the Pteranodon. I, too, think that they don't look as "cool" as the Spinosaur, but I think it's a great approach of TLC not to make more SPUDs, but add some smaller special parts and build up the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)

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