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Mythical fourth ship in 918/924/928 family
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Mon, 15 Feb 1999 05:17:32 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, dulcaoin@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu (Joshua Delahunty) writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> >
> > [discussing Sony Mavica digital camera]
> >
> > Here's an example of a photo shoot one afternoon of a little ship (mythical
> > sister ship of 918/924/928) -- took approximately 2 minutes to snap all of
> > the pictures. (The date & time of the photos are recorded on all of the
> > pictures.)
> >
> > http://www.fibblesnork.com/lego/little918924928ship/
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> > I purposely used an old beat-up spaceguy here for these pix to see how well
> > the details showed up. You can see bite marks in his feet. (No, not from
> > me; I've acquired quite a lot of used LEGO from various sources.)
>
> Wow!
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> The mailbox and door are anacronistic, but I could otherwise be
> convinced that this baby is the long-lost 914 Shuttle. I like it!
I decided I couldn't bear to suffer through the indecision of an April
Fool's Day three years in a row. Although it might've been a decent AFD
prank, I wouldn't've been able to live with myself if it'd worked too well,
and I just might've gone through with it this year.
(I guess maybe I still could. ;-)
D'ya like the use of the little tri-engine retro-rocket element for
thrusters? 928 uses 4 gray 4x4x2 cone bricks, 924 uses 2, and 918 uses 1.
The only place to go from there was 0, leaving just the little thrusters.
--Todd
p.s. Rats! I just *knew* you'd burn me on the mailbox element! When did
it first appear? 1983, I think?--a full 4-5 years after 918/924/928? And
the roof -- oops! I didn't even realize that was newer too...you're right!
(That element came from 6951 Robot Command Center -- an '84 set -- and I
think it also appeared in the unnamed '85 Canadian/Euro set numbered 1968).
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Mythical fourth ship in 918/924/928 family
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| Todd wrote... (...) That old trick, ay? (...) Well the main problem with the ship is that with the 928, 924, 918 ships the wing space slowly gets smaller but still keeps the same width of windshield, this one couldn't really get any smaller compared (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: Mythical fourth ship in 918/924/928 family
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| (...) Oh, I meant it, it could fool me ('cept I know too much about mailboxes) :-) (...) 1982: in 6362 Post Office, 6372 Town House, and 6651 Post Office Van, all three of which may not have been non-U.S (I'm pretty sure that 6372 is the only to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: Mythical fourth ship in 918/924/928 family
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| (...) (mythical (...) well (...) Ah, that was fun. I've thought of building up the rest of the "fleet" that lego didn't design just to see how far I could get with the design variation. -Tom McD. PS Done any Blacktron I ? Come on, admit it... you (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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