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lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 05:22
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who use to play with this stuff as kids?
i was in the process of cleaning out my room and i opened my closet and moved some shit and found my tub of technic... open it up *just to look and go ahh good ol day* and to my suprise there was 3 cars that i had bought and made up sitting there.. im like wtf sick.
pick them out pull out the box and to my suprise there was another box underneith of a mind storm star wars figure... im like omg i remember that. it wasnt together so i sat there today and made it... took hlaf hour when it use to take me 3 hours. ahh
anyone else use to make this stuff?
i use to love it. i wanted a massive car at one point that had gears and everything was insane. then they brough out new models that had awesome looking mag wheels.
and no im not a nerd geek or ne other fully 1337 style copmuter nut.
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cambo
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May 2002
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 05:28
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i loved the technic, it was tops  i didnt have much cause it was pretty expensive for a kid. i did have a car with a V6 and the pistons moved, to me it was the coolest. no hang on thats not the coolest, ive been to LEGOLAND thats the coolest
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Sydney
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November 2003
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 05:31
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u seen the new lego? it looks like all the parts are weird shapes so itd be hard to make other shit than whats on the box..
cant mess with the classic brick
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Location:
ballarat
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April 2003
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 05:34
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i recon anyone who is now in an engineering/mechanical line of work has had to have played with lego technic at some time as a kid... i think i first learnt how a diff works with lego technic 
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Location:
Campbelltown
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November 2003
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 05:34
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Didn't have technics, had mechano (spelling) though. Great stuff for kids to play with keeps em occupied for hours  .
I made a battery powered whipper snipper out of mechano for a school project in primary school.
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Location:
Melbourne - NthSubs
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January 2004
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 05:56
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i once made a huge (12-5") mech like gundam kinda of thing... drop it and never touched lego again 
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melbourne
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February 2005
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 06:15
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lego ive got shit loads! tub = 600x 500 x 400 full... generations of lego.. from my oldest bro to other bro then was pasted to me agea ago...
technic was mostly mine... never had the mecano sets as the packs were dodgy n everytime i had a new one it wouldnt have a nut or bolt in it
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Location:
cambo
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May 2002
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Brisbane
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October 2002
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 06:56
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| EVOSTi wrote on Mon, 21 November 2005 16:41 |
mechano sux, lego's where its at 
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nuf said, end topic
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Location:
Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan
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January 2003
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 07:01
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| Mr DOHC wrote on Mon, 21 November 2005 17:56 |
| EVOSTi wrote on Mon, 21 November 2005 16:41 |
mechano sux, lego's where its at
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nuf said, end topic
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my first corolla was cheaper than a big Mechano set AND had more pieces.....
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Location:
Pine Rivers QLD
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April 2005
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 08:05
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i have a F1 car, a helicopter, and heaps more. Its good fun.
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Lost in the K hole
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May 2002
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 10:37
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agghhhh those little tiny mechano nuts!!!! agghhh
and the way the mechano plastic smelt
lock thread - bad dreams a commin
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I supported Toymods
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Perth.
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April 2005
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Location:
Perth
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August 2003
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 18:13
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haha dude the gearstick on that car looks abit far away
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Location:
Kellyville, Sydney
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June 2004
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 19:30
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did anyone else have that set with the control board and all the motors?the one how you can make it draw stuff with a pen? that was way cool.
i built a car both left hand wheels run by one motor and both rh wheels controlled by a second, and you could steer it like an rc car it was awsome.
but you had to run after it coz of the wires going from car to board
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Location:
Adelaide, SA
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June 2004
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 19:49
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i use to love it. i wanted a massive car at one point that had gears and everything was insane. then they brough out new models that had awesome looking mag wheels.
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I had that when I was little. Yes, V6 with moving pistons, Diff, 3 gears + Neutral, pop up lights, full suspension with massive travel. Man that car was awesome.
I remeber Modding mine though so it had a bigger spoiler (Yes I started the whole trend) and I put in some lights that actually work and I motorised (electrically) the engine too but the motor wasn't quite powerful enough to move the car.
I have had a few in my day. I still have a truck with electrics and pnumatics. It has a rotating crane on the back that can move and pick stuff up, and also have the Model Team Truck with the helicopter on the back.
I don't like Lego these days becuase it seems less and less hard to build stuff. The Enzo looks OK, but it's like rather than using 100 blocks to mak a curve, it's now just one pressed piece. Takes the challange and fun away in my opinion.
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Dubbo
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April 2005
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 21:22
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lego is teh win!
i have the F1 car at home full V10 motor with moving pitons, steering, and an operational diff (tho no gears  )
I also have the AT-AT and R2-D2 at home...so much fun
And i agree that the parts are getting wierd and a lot harder to use outside of the lil project they came with.
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Sydney
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April 2004
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 22:13
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I once constructed an exact replica of 'The Sea Duck' (the plane from the cartoon Tailspin) was yellow and everything.
Damn it rocked. Lego forever.....
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I supported Toymods
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Perth.
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April 2005
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Location:
melbourne
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February 2005
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 21 November 2005 22:55
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gotta love the end stops as trumpets on that motor
there so many i wana get now... the new ones are prett weird but of the old new ones were good.
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Location:
The Shire
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May 2005
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Re: lego - technic
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Tue, 22 November 2005 00:00
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| ehendrikd wrote on Mon, 21 November 2005 16:34 |
i recon anyone who is now in an engineering/mechanical line of work has had to have played with lego technic at some time as a kid... i think i first learnt how a diff works with lego technic
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It's funny cause its true.
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1st street on the right
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November 2002
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Re: lego - technic
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Tue, 22 November 2005 08:25
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| ed_ma61 wrote on Mon, 21 November 2005 21:37 |
agghhhh those little tiny mechano nuts!!!! agghhh
and the way the mechano plastic smelt
lock thread - bad dreams a commin
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Plastic mechano????
When did that happen. Mine was metal, bendable, way cool and I used to pop rivet stuff together as well.
Lego = teh good
Star Wars Tech = Ebay $$$ winner
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melbourne
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February 2005
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Re: lego - technic
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Tue, 22 November 2005 12:20
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offen wondered what i would make off the at-at on ebay!
should try and flog it off
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Lost in the K hole
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May 2002
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Re: lego - technic
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Tue, 22 November 2005 14:48
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yeah yeah, mechano had plastic panels and shit that you could bolt into the metal superstructure, kinda like icecream container type plastic. had rectangles and triangles n shit
stuff smelt like a fucken petrochemical plant...
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Location:
logan river brisbane
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July 2005
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Re: lego - technic
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Tue, 22 November 2005 16:41
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where the spanner work\creativity started..........
YES but the racers were on the scalextrix track
AND the fkn serious racers were down the BIG track next to the bowling alley with the MODDED slot cars! now your talking. 
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Location:
Liverpool
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February 2005
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Re: lego - technic
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Sun, 27 November 2005 04:38
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Sorry blokes. It got the better of me in the end. It's Meccano not mechano.
Cheers, Greg.
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Land of Oz
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June 2004
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Re: lego - technic
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Sun, 27 November 2005 06:15
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Hi,
| Farkurnell wrote on Sun, 27 November 2005 15:38 |
Sorry blokes. It got the better of me in the end. It's Meccano not mechano.
Cheers, Greg.
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Good on you, sunshine. You beat me too it.
And, to go against the tide, Lego is kiddies shit compared to Meccano. When you grow up out of baby land of pushing together little plastic blocks you then went into the real world of mechanics and got into Meccano.
seeyuzz
river
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Location:
adelaide
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November 2005
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 28 November 2005 06:06
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I had some pretty crazy lego. fibre optics, I loved that stuff. I made drag cars and had motors and stuff for them to. i sold it all on ebay a year or so ago and made a few hundred. was a sad day for me  sooo many hours of fun but we all gotta move on same day.
p.s. meccano was lame compared to mega sweet cool awesome lego
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Liverpool
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February 2005
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 28 November 2005 08:45
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| Gerald1 wrote on Mon, 28 November 2005 17:06 |
p.s. meccano was lame compared to mega sweet cool awesome lego
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Lego is used for the special needs students at my daughter's school. Meccano is too complicated. Must be the same for you Gerald.
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adelaide
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November 2005
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 28 November 2005 10:06
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lego only for "special needs" students?? what has the world come to! obviously you haven't heard about the millipede made from lego! it was over a 1050m!!! Now I'm no expert, but i havne't seen any "special needs" students make kilometre long millipedes. only a real man could make that, only a real man could connect 2,477,140 bricks together. Now if meccano is so awesome, why wouldn't they make it out of that?
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Campbelltown
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November 2003
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 28 November 2005 10:10
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cos it'd be rusted by the time you finished the damn thing and I don't really know to many silver millipede's how about you  .
Meccano rocked the only problem was the last step to finish off them usually involved some screw being attached right in the middle of the thing which made for lots of err fun in trying to finish it off.
Can you make a working whipper snipper out of lego technic , i mean this shit really cut grass and anything else that got in the way. 
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Land of Oz
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June 2004
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 28 November 2005 10:19
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Hi,
| Gerald1 wrote on Mon, 28 November 2005 21:06 |
lego only for "special needs" students?? what has the world come to! obviously you haven't heard about the millipede made from lego! it was over a 1050m!!! Now I'm no expert, but i havne't seen any "special needs" students make kilometre long millipedes. only a real man could make that, only a real man could connect 2,477,140 bricks together. Now if meccano is so awesome, why wouldn't they make it out of that?
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LOL!!!  That's not a mans task, that's the task of a bored fool. Face it, Lego is easy. It's not hard to push together some plastic blocks - even if you're crazy enough to push together 2million of them. That doesn't mean Lego is awesome, it means that Lego is easy. Just bang 'em together and keep going.
Having owned both Lego and Meccano, I found the Meccano to be much more challenging and more fun. Sure, Lego is fun and easy and simple and I loved it - but Meccano is where the real fun, and ability to design new things comes along. Meccano is more of a challenge.
The reason your Meccano design would rust is 'cos you took too long and weren't up to the challenge.
Lego is the AFX of the slot car world, where Meccano is the Scalextric/Fly.
seeyuzz
river
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melbourne
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February 2005
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 28 November 2005 11:31
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im special in everyway..
well my mum says im cool
deep down inside you know you love it, you just dont wana admit to the stuff as it has a lack of go fast bit turbo sutff *insert turbo flutter*
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Brisbane
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August 2003
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The Shire
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May 2005
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Re: lego - technic
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Mon, 28 November 2005 13:13
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| Major Clod wrote on Mon, 28 November 2005 23:12 |
Ahh I remember making Lego soccer playing robots in high school. The ball had a bunch of Led's inside so your optical sensors could pick it up. The floor had a large black to white gradient printed on it so you could determine which way to go. The robot could remember a basic set of instructions for programming. I remember when I hid a bunch of lights underneath my robot, the opposing teams robot ended up picking up the light and following mine around trying to mount it.
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That would have been fun to watch.
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Perth
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September 2004
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Re: lego - technic
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Tue, 06 December 2005 06:56
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| Gerald1 wrote on Mon, 28 November 2005 18:06 |
Now if meccano is so awesome, why wouldn't they make it out of that?
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I've got a collection, of both and I'd say it's because of the tolerances Lego is made to. (5 micrometers in any direction.) 
Meccano is more fun, but Lego's easier to whip something up with. It always just fits.
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