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Push-Button Engineering
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:20 pm
by Almighty Benny
What is the coolest feature you have ever built into a vehicle or environment that actually does something when you push a button?
Today I finished a truck that I've been working on for a long time that actually has 4 cannons pop out of the sides and roof when you push a button on the back. I'm dying to take pictures of it but I left my camera back at school.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:24 pm
by Almighty Benny
Actually, this thread should include features that are merely button-esque. For example some of the sets in the Wild West line would have exploding walls when you pushed in a piece of dynamite. Come to think of it, that was one of my favorite themes ever.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:24 pm
by Bonn-o-Tron
Great Hordes of Mongolia, that sounds awesome
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:51 am
by james+burgundy
I made a push button bomb system you bush a button and a bomb drops out course that was like 6 years ago.
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:18 am
by Matt
Huh, I don't think I've ever made a push button anything!
I never really was into that sorta thing. I guess I've just been challenged!
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:05 am
by Atomsk
I made a Revenge of the Sith V-Wing before the actual set. I had a gear system set up in the back like the X-wing or ARC-180, to rotate the wings for landing. Was kind of bummed LEGO didn't include that when they made theirs... I still got two of them though.
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:18 pm
by piltogg
a trap door that spears will comedown and impale you if you push the door inward (uses a string)
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:33 pm
by Captain Nomouth
I once built a working elevator, but it was too big to be of any use in my base at the time.
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:16 pm
by doodstormer
I once made a trapdoor that led to an alligator pit. That's as advanced as I get.
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:43 pm
by IVhorseman
doodstormer wrote:That's as advanced as I get.
i've got a few cars with wheels on em. and the wheels? they effing
roll.
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:48 pm
by Bonn-o-Tron
IVhorseman wrote:doodstormer wrote:That's as advanced as I get.
i've got a few cars with wheels on em. and the wheels? they effing
roll.
Woah
Lookie here, I think we've found LEGO's next top designer.
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:25 am
by *CRAZYHORSE*
Bonn-o-Tron wrote:IVhorseman wrote:doodstormer wrote:That's as advanced as I get.
i've got a few cars with wheels on em. and the wheels? they effing
roll.
Woah
Lookie here, I think we've found LEGO's next top designer.
Hahaha that's funny *sniff* the most advaced thing I ever made was A slide door. It didn't really work though.
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:53 am
by Sir Lancelot
Not much for me either...
All I've ever made were hidden compartments and swinging arms at the touch of a button on a robot. Oh well...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:57 pm
by IVhorseman
actually, now that i remember, i have a ship with an engine full of gears and rods and whatnot, and they turn when the steering wheel does. so i guess that counts?