anyway: marginalia

thread: 2006-02-21 : Adding Objectives to Mechaton

On 2006-02-22, James Nostack wrote:

I have not played with Legos for almost 20 years but now I want to. Badly. I read, by the way, that the Lego Website is going to be doing "print on demand" for self-designed Lego kits. You go to the site, CAD something up, and then pay for them to slap the pieces in a box with instructions. How cool is that?? "Let me check the mail, my army of Giant Robots may have arrived!"

Also, there ought to be a fan site where people post their most kick-ass Mech designs, to create a sort of Open Source community to improve on them.

This makes FSF go "I've added links to Mechaton"
and this discussion on the Lugnet gaming forum page.

This makes JNS go "I'm Scared but Fascinated"
Those "Iron Mecha" pictures are either brilliant or scary.

This makes VB go "I wish..."
I wish there were more built to Mechaton's scale. Most of the mecha I can find are gigantic.

This makes NinJ go "The ones I was making wound up the scale they did because that's literally the smallest I could get them before they did"

This makes NinJ go "Whoops, cut off."

This makes NinJ go "DAMMIT. I'm obviously excited about this."
It was the smallest I could make them before I couldn't get the flexibility I wanted in the bodies. Primarily hips: any smaller and I couldn't simulate ball joints.