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i'd suggest you put this on the mainpage Sam no doubt these sets will sell, but they remind me of the city sets in the late 90's: a bit <insert that tiresome argument>, a bit too simple, not as stylish as the first fire truck, for instance. don't think i'll be buying these

you can save your files on corel draw as jpegs?

thanks for the kind words :-$ it's always my intention to post one a week but i never seem to reach that average... this is actually my second one, i picked this up a few months back from a seller in Li

6929 Starfleet Voyager We were on our way to deliver a cargo to Alpha prime, at the Outer Rim, when our radar picked up a signature of a Star Fleet Voyager on a nearby planet. Sorry for the lousy photos, we were flying at a distance of about half a million kilometres and it seems the atmosphere of the planet seriously interfered with the camera

corel draw doesn't support the jpeg format, so you'd have to upload it in photoshop or paint to turn it into a jpeg

yeah they've been offline for a while, EB staff is working on some problems and a skin for the forum, so i guess we'll get them back when that's ready...

same here! *sweet* have a great day! *wub* btw, shouldn't you guys close the other topic, or is this one topic for Hobbes, and one for his brand new wife? :-P and btw, Mayor, does this mean we get a new female member here as well? :-P

i heard this as well... it seems they're allowing the use of torture for people suspected of terrorism, but i don't know if it's already aproved by both legislative chambers, if that's needed anyway. still, i can't think that any nation will ever transfer suspected terrorists to the US with this type of rule...

they did have the entire line available in 1990, but it was all released the year before, 1989. I believe they had to focus their efforts on the castle line at that point

i'll tell you a secret: i put that set in there just to make it more difficult for you! :-P no, really!

usually we do polls for only one theme, let's take it from a different angle, shall we? I've selected 7 sets that have been released in 1990, according to the full-line dutch catalogue: 6077 River Fortress 'be careful! fire hazard!' 8-| 6396 Airport 'Get your bags! We're going on vacation!' *sweet* 6081 King's mountain fortress 'Any one scared of ghosts?' 8-| 6399 Airport shuttle 'Never miss your plane again!' :-$ 6376 Ristorante Italiano 'god i'm hungry' *sing* 6389 M-tron mega core magnetiser 'get out of the way!!' >:-( 5590 Model team's super truck 'now i only need to find a parking spot!' :-X so, who gets the crappy award?

Hehe yup, just give "What's the best large sized space ship EVER?" a try with Galaxy Explorer. X-D Or was it done already ? :-$ nope, but i was going to do something like: 'what's the best large space ship, and the 'galaxy explorer doesn't count!' X-D but i'll think of something more creative... ;-)

next time, i'm gona keep these classics out of a poll, cos they'd win anyway X-D

EASY!

i shouldn't think it would run that fast... the engine is all about stability and durability. nuclear power does not mean, you're fast, it only provides power in a very reliable way... i guess you'd also have to take the atmosphere into account. take the F-104; the thing weighs 15 tons but the wings aren't even as tick as a fist... yep, they bend :-P oh well... :-P

great! yet another space guy on these boards!! 8-

thanks *sweet* ok... i'll give him a seat as long as it doesn't mean he's going to hit his head against the canopy :-X perhaps it looks fragile because of all the details, but i can easily pick it up in one hand and swoosh it around without any parts falling off; the cockpit has two/three layers of plates, the base for the engine has four/five, the wings have three, there's lots of pressure on the cylinders of the hydraulics system (because the parts aren't put together as the Lego would, most of them are 'illegal techniques' as they would describe it), so it's a bit stronger than in a normal technique, but you're right, i can only pick it up with my thumb underneath the hull and my second finger on the modified tile just after the trans-black engine part. all the rest won't hold... I'd say it's meant for display only, it's not meant for kids, like most models kits, really... oh no no... wires, pipes,... nonono all 'fly by wire', mister! meaning: remote control by sensores, as the F-16 today; armor you say? how ' bout titanium? the cockpit of an A-10 is completely made out of titanium, yet the thing flies on engines hardly stronger than that of a vacuum cleaner, so to speak, cargo, you say? the flying crane easily carries a house but is hardly a construction of bars of steel and aluminium... i'm just taking these rules into science fiction :-$

no, as Apo once explained, you're gonna have to open your picture in 'paint' or so and change the dimensions and save it as a new file so you won't change the original, then you're going to have to redo the process of uploading into bs and relinking into your post here all over again...

:-P nope, why would you wanna have a heavy hull in space? take the moonjeep. the construction was so weak, it wouldn't even be able to carry the weight if it were here on earth. weight and space is just waaaay too valuable in outer space to waste it on flashy hull sections... the 'voyager' and 'pioneer' are great examples as well, there's no protection for their instruments either, all these vital elements are just sitting in a metal box or hanging on a fairly fragile bar... that's just the way it is in real space ... the entire wing is as thick as a lego head, in our world, that's about 30cm or so? i'd think in the 24th century or whatever, they've got these composite materials for this... :-P honestly, i just hate to make my planes too heavy, too thick,... as a kid, i always made an extreme effort in getting as much space inside my ships as possible, for whatever purpose, very often it meant: 'why take 2 plates if 1 is enough?' in this case, it's all about saving weight in order to lift more cargo, so everything that is not needed, has got to go :-P at that point, my urge to be realistic just takes over and i'll just assume that in real life, it will hold, even though it may look fragile in Lego... :-P my feeling for estethics says the same, but: 1) i don't think in the same way as most space fans who are building ships do. i'm a realist in a very, very, very extreme way. i can't just build a space ship that looks good, because I want it to look good, it has to follow the lines of logic, of functionality. In this case, it wouldn't matter if the cockpit is larger than the engine, as long as the engine does what is needed. in fact, the evolution of today's aviation runs in exactly the same way: cockpits are getting larger compared to the size of the engine. 2) there was also a vey strict limit on dimensions. it's already a bit too long for what i had in mind... :-$

I was at star Command

ok... we've had 19 votes so far, let's take a look at the results, shall we? the space cruiser seems to be in the lead. That doesn't really surprise me, because the first generation of ships is by most regarded as 'sacret sets'. the PS Striker of the Space Police theme did also very well. i assume it was supported by the general popularity of the theme the '200 Jet' only has one vote... hm... i kinda thought this would be number 2...

hm...if they stick to the firefighting theme, i would have prefered a firefighting plane instead, but i guess they still have this large hovercraft part in production... still, i understand why they've decided to keep on producing the firetheme sets. that old firetruck is still selling like crazy! that's probably the best selling set of the last couple of years, if you're asking me, except for some sw sets, maybe

Here :-) Guys and gals, I found a new fire set (or at least I don't recall that we ever discussed this before ;-) ) doing my regular Amazon.de browsing: set n

that's pretty cool!! 8-

I just ignore these illegal-legal rules of lego. they only limit creativity anyway and most of my mocs aren't alive long enough to suffer the consequences of illegal techniques...