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Lego Matrix Zion's Last Stand Arrives Six Years Too Late, But It's Still Awesome
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06/27/09
Actually, it was pretty cool, but I'm not sure it would have ranked in my top 5. The Indiana Jones mega-diorama and BrickChick's coral reef were definitely the top two, plus PepaQuin had his Futurama Planet Express display and slightly-larger-than-the-10179 UCS Millennium Falcon (with detailed interior) there. Oh, and one of the founders built a large-scale MOC of FLW's Falling Water, though the surrounding landscape was all still just hollow framework.
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why call them legos?
its like a lego big flat piece with action figures standing on it.
thats not legos. legos are blocks you BUILD things with.
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Your name isn't, by any chance, Bob Parker, is it? Because not too long ago he was whinging on LUGNET about this exact sort of thing, with how it's "not LEGO if you don't leave studs showing" or some crap. That's the sort of stuff that comes in official sets, not the stuff that has Kjeld Kirk and all the official model designers staring in amazement and saying that they didn't think such things were possible with a simple little plastic toy.
@Hello Mister Walrus:
There are several levels of "LEGO purist". This is probably what we'd call the "has to look like a child built it" type, where special elements are off limits, and anything that's not a basic 2x4 brick is probably considered a special element (I actually once saw someone make that very claim).
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My question was always how they managed to go so long between reloads, considering how tiny those ammo boxes were compared to the size of the rounds, and how fast those twin guns blazed through them. Seems like it'd take no more than a handful of seconds to run dry after every reload, not unlike you would with an M-16 if you just hold the trigger down.
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Nope, and even if it was it'd be pretty expensive for a set that size. I'd estimate the mecha alone as being somewhere in the range of 400 parts, which would run no less than $40 MSRP (I'd actually guess closer to $50, with the full scene running at least $500...if it was an official set). An official LEGO version would be a lot clunkier, but they'd probably drop the price down to $15-20 as a result.