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"Todd Amacher" <atamacher@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:KF57qL.87x@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.build.mecha, Eric Sophie wrote:
> > In lugnet.announce.moc, Andrew Todd Amacher wrote:
> > > This is a revamp of the "Gorgon" that I made back in 2005. Its larger
> > > and has
> > > more articulation than its predecessor. Even the main eye pivots.
> > >
> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=368213
> > >
> > > LMKWYT,
> > > Todd
> >
> > Hey Todd, this is really cool. It looks big and certainly uses lots of
> > nice
> > parts! I also really like how it is a bigger version of one of your older
> > designs. Interesting way you made the feet, I also dig the quad arm set
> > up.
> > I'd like to try that some time.
> >
> > Good MOC, thanks for sharing!
> >
> > Eric Sophie
>
> Thanks Eric- my motivations for building it were to make a droid host
> unit
> roughly equal in stature to my Traikon mecha and to test the stiffness of
> those
> rubberized socket joints. The hips were a bit weak, so I added tires
> underneath
> the feet to keep the figure from doing the splits.
Great! I half expected it to transform into a vehicle and drive off the
first time I saw those tires! ;-)
Do you think you could build a version of it that actually would transform
from a robot mode to a vehicle-like mode?
I'm a big fan of anything that's a Transformer, it's rather hard to do
properly in LEGO, though it's definitely possible to do.
Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Eric Sophie wrote:
> In lugnet.announce.moc, Andrew Todd Amacher wrote:
> > This is a revamp of the "Gorgon" that I made back in 2005. Its larger and has
> > more articulation than its predecessor. Even the main eye pivots.
> >
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=368213
> >
> > LMKWYT,
> > Todd
>
> Hey Todd, this is really cool. It looks big and certainly uses lots of nice
> parts! I also really like how it is a bigger version of one of your older
> designs. Interesting way you made the feet, I also dig the quad arm set up.
> I'd like to try that some time.
>
> Good MOC, thanks for sharing!
>
> Eric Sophie
Thanks Eric- my motivations for building it were to make a droid host unit
roughly equal in stature to my Traikon mecha and to test the stiffness of those
rubberized socket joints. The hips were a bit weak, so I added tires underneath
the feet to keep the figure from doing the splits.
Later,
Todd
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Andrew Todd Amacher wrote:
> This is a revamp of the "Gorgon" that I made back in 2005. Its larger and has
> more articulation than its predecessor. Even the main eye pivots.
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=368213
>
> LMKWYT,
> Todd
Hey Todd, this is really cool. It looks big and certainly uses lots of nice
parts! I also really like how it is a bigger version of one of your older
designs. Interesting way you made the feet, I also dig the quad arm set up.
I'd like to try that some time.
Good MOC, thanks for sharing!
Eric Sophie
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Kyle Beatty wrote:
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With a couple of exceptions, the packaging can’t be recycled and has also
become egregiously un-MOCable and just plain BIG.
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I can’t believe I’m even suggesting this, but if there’s a triangle made of
arrows with a number inside located somewhere on the bottom, that piece of
plastic can indeed be recycled. But if you plan to keep the sets intact, but
don’t plan to display them all at the same time, they are quite useful for
storing the parts, or, in many cases, the assembled models (I think that’s why
they keep getting so big).
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You are corect, sir! Many of the containers are “1”; but some of the components
are “5”. Seattle recycling has a nutty rule for plastic, anyway: “Ignore the
numbers—recycle only plastic bottles, tubs, jugs, and jars, plus shopping,
newspaper and dry cleaning bags. The number indicates the resin (a type of
plastic) content. The cost of recycling some items exceeds the value of recycled
plastic.” So the most useless bits (I’m looking at the Phantoka canister
decoration) would have to go to the landfill. Sigh.
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Kyle Beatty wrote:
> With a couple of exceptions, the packaging can't be recycled and has also
> become egregiously un-MOCable and just plain BIG.
I can't believe I'm even suggesting this, but if there's a triangle made of
arrows with a number inside located somewhere on the bottom, that piece of
plastic can indeed be recycled. But if you plan to keep the sets intact, but
don't plan to display them all at the same time, they are quite useful for
storing the parts, or, in many cases, the assembled models (I think that's why
they keep getting so big).
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Allister McLaren wrote:
> In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Kyle Beatty wrote:
> > Yoiks! The price for Bionicle canister sets has jumped 30% since the last
> > release. Is it just the weak dollar? The piece-count is roughly the same.
>
> Those sets certainly do have increasingly elaborate packaging for you to throw
> away.
Indeed. I feel more than silly trying to find space to store it because I can't
stomach putting that stuff in a landfill. With a couple of exceptions, the
packaging can't be recycled and has also become egregiously un-MOCable and just
plain BIG.
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Kyle Beatty wrote:
> Yoiks! The price for Bionicle canister sets has jumped 30% since the last
> release. Is it just the weak dollar? The piece-count is roughly the same.
Those sets certainly do have increasingly elaborate packaging for you to throw
away.
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Yoiks! The price for Bionicle canister sets has jumped 30% since the last
release. Is it just the weak dollar? The piece-count is roughly the same.
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My good friend (and fellow worker), Dave F, brought in his little ‘pet project’
that he’s been working on for the last little bit--
Inspired by one of the latest Bionicle sets, Dave F wanted to build an 8 legged
beastie instead of the set’s 4 legged one (dunno the set number)
The issue of course is that there’s a LEGO fan that I work with so when we hit
the mall for lunch every Friday, we end up at Winners and/or Zellers trying to
convince each other to be good on the pocketbook and *not* buy LEGO (often
fails, especially when BOGO rears it’s u-glay head)
Anyway, more pics--
http://sandysparky.net/gallery/20071129_dave_f_bionicle_spider
Dave K
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