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General => News => Topic started by: skypurr on July 13, 2010, 23:58:57
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Been busy sorting out system x today for our Playmo Exhibition. Only 17 days to go and so much to sort out. I'm getting to the panicking stage!
One of the displays I plan to build is a 'modern' street and I have been making shops today. Getting short of system x I decided to forego my two Police Stations and have managed to use them to make a small 2 storey hospital, bank and hairdresser's shop. I'm quite pleased with the result, I'll take some photos when I get all the furniture etc. in.
The hardest part of the day though was building the 3186 airport for another part of the display. A few years ago we bought the 7573 extension to it, but had never used it.
It took me over 3 hours to build it all!! 8} At crucial parts it kept breaking up! :hissyfit: :hissyfit: :hissyfit:
I hate System X >:( - Luckily it's back to building with steck tomorrow. :D :yippee:
Elaine :)
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It took me over 3 hours to build it all!! 8} At crucial parts it kept breaking up!
Elaine :)
I have much the same experience everytime I build anything with syxtem-X. It appears to be a major design flaw, yet the designers never noticed this in product testing.
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I'd love to see soem pictures Elaine! Although steck is the answer to all >:D >:D >:D :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I look forward to see these designs. Though I have to agree with Wolf Knight and I am sure most have noticed I am
obsessed with a steck hardcore designer wonnabe and very prejudiced against other designs .. :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
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I too find SystemX annoying to build with - when you come to put two bases together and they fly up and bits go everywhere 8} 8} 8}
Although I do think that SystemX looks great for the modern shops etc 8-)
Damo :)
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Look forward to seeing the results, Elaine. My experience is the same. >:(
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Hi
I too look forward to seeing how your creations take shape. I find systemX very useful for modern buildings and if you put in a floor covering the holes it looks really nice too. It is a common building system in real life for quick construction.
as far as annoyances is concerned I do not have too much trouble moving them. Actually I find it harder to move a castle as it has no base . The one hardship I have is my own fault. I build on the carpeted floor, put it all together then go to pick it up and find I squished a fiber in between some base and its stuck or buckles in the middle from the string
Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
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The ideal sets for system x in my ( humble and non system x expert or user ) opinion were the space ones. Really dont know why playmobil doesnt make a really good line of space theme with lots of spacecraft and stations and robots etc etc , last one was interesting, aliens were very strange and different but i guess they all flopped in teh market. Something alongside the playmospace old spacecraft and the modern robots , nasa missions would be more appropriate , something more scientific rather than a cheap comic immitation. ...
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I don't know...I like the system x naval strongholds very much! Where i think the lion castle was not well designed, i think the opposite for these strongholds. I have two of them and plan to combine them with system x parts from the western fort, of which I have four. I need to built a keep on an island that is situated on a narrow gulf thus controling passage of ships...
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I don't know...I like the system x naval strongholds very much! Where i think the lion castle was not well designed, i think the opposite for these strongholds. I have two of them and plan to combine them with system x parts from the western fort, of which I have four. I need to built a keep on an island that is situated on a narrow gulf thus controling passage of ships...
That is an interestong notion Sir panos. Th enaval strongholds are probably a bit more realistic than this awful syxtem x castle ( personal opinion) , i have hardly seen any system x large customs as only in large scale one can really access the potential and flaws of a design system . One think for sure the system x westrn fort sucks to make large designs whereas with western steck you can create miracles ( watch this space for my upcoming roman fortress ) . Well system x is pretty useless to me so look forward to see your designs panos!!!! still to see any large system x mediaval castles , with double high halls will look like a bloody castle made of cheeze .... steck , steck , steck, only yesterday i bought another 122 steck mediaval walls to reinforce my mediaval citatel .... ;D ;D
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I have mixed feelings about System X. While it can be quite rigid with the right design, it can also easily break apart in other designs. For example, fort towers are very sturdy but fort walls, although perfectly straight unlike the Steck fort walls, fall apart when one tries to move them. Regardless, I've invested in it and so I'll stick with it.
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I just membered that set number 3151 - Viking Longhouse (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=3151&pics=on) has a very bad design in the front ship yard/dock area... the dock
30 22 4420 - base piece dock section (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-22-4420) supported by 30 22 4430 - Palisade section narrow ascending height (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-22-4430) is cliped on the bottom of this rock formation 30 22 4450 - Rock formation staircase with System X sockets (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-22-4450)
The rock formation is then cliped on the main platform of the longhouse 30 22 4180 - large square base piece (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-22-4180) but only in two holes.... this makes both rock formations so unstable that everytime someone needs to move this thing around ends up picking up the whole dock from the floor... not to mention the palisades, the grass bases etc etc...
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I agree that the Viking Longhouse was poorly designed. Perhaps that was why it only lasted one year. It wasn't at all historically correct either.
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I agree that the Viking Longhouse was poorly designed. Perhaps that was why it only lasted one year. It wasn't at all historically correct either.
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That is one system X set that really did not look right. Those vikings were a great theme but that X fort was ugly.
Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
(edit) forgot a "T" in fort
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but that X for was ugly.
Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
Sorry to be repetitive but i cant think of any system x set that i sbetter looking than an equivalent steck set ....
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Sorry to be repetitive but i cant think of any system x set that i sbetter looking than an equivalent steck set ....
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But there are so many system X sets that are just not available in stecks. Look at any modern building, the fairy castles or the church, there just is not a steck equivalent. look at how so many members have created such splendid creations with them. The building system allows one to make huge structures that are not possible in stecks. Stecks is great for walls but the buildings are so limited.
Rasputin "The Mad Monk"