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I am having a moment of disappointment with my new Bounty Hunter Pursuit set
that I'm wondering if others are experiencing. The issue: Zam Wesell's
ship's canopy will not stay closed. I do not know if this is something
intentional or accidental but the canopy hinge lacks a "tooth" on the
interior side to fit the hinge sprocket of the receiving piece. The result
is a canopy that flops open when tilted.
I am of the mind that this is an oversight like what happened with the stair
segments in the Harry Potter sets. The reason I believe this is that the
canopy cannot be locked into the first toothed position without removing the
ship's outriggers. Forgoing the thought of poor design, is it possible this
section of the mold was accidentally reversed? Turning the hinge section 180
degrees would put the tooth exactly where it needs to be to lock the canopy
closed.
Can others confirm that their canopy hinge is like mine or not?
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On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 02:02:47 GMT, "Jim Green"
<brickhead@RemoveThisSpamBlock-trickitty.com> wrote:
> I am having a moment of disappointment with my new Bounty Hunter Pursuit set
> that I'm wondering if others are experiencing. The issue: Zam Wesell's
> ship's canopy will not stay closed. I do not know if this is something
> intentional or accidental but the canopy hinge lacks a "tooth" on the
> interior side to fit the hinge sprocket of the receiving piece. The result
> is a canopy that flops open when tilted.
I found that you can take one of the spare rubber bands and loop it
over the 2 1x2 slope bricks on either side of the hinge and the
cockpit will stay closed.
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My copy is the same way, Jim. Looks like the tooth is on the wrong side of
the canopy, which will flop open pretty easily - especially if the mandibles
are off.
-Matt
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In lugnet.starwars, Matthew Sekerak writes:
> My copy is the same way, Jim. Looks like the tooth is on the wrong side of
> the canopy, which will flop open pretty easily - especially if the mandibles
> are off.
"Me too" :( I played around with jury rigging it with rubber bands and got
something that wasn't awful, but I eventually just decided that it was just
poor design (*very* similar to the HP stairs-- I wonder if the molds were
incorrectly assembled again?)
DaveE
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In lugnet.starwars, Jim Green writes:
> The issue: Zam Wesell's ship's canopy will not stay closed.
Ditto for me :(. I tried something not as innovative as the rubber bands,
but that worked for me all the same.
I removed the green pokey up hollow piece right behind the canopy. Under
that, I put a 1x2 translucent yellow plate (gotta maintain that day-glo
theme). Then I replaced the green piece, so it stood a little higher. Then I
put a round translucent 1x1 piece in the front hollow of the green piece.
Then I just *snap* the canopy in under it.
You can sort of see it in the picture on this page:
http://www.galacticbrick.com/polls/poll_4-24-02.html
mo
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"Monica Wilbur" <monica@galacticbrick.com> wrote in message
news:Gv7o1p.Ds@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.starwars, Jim Green writes:
> > The issue: Zam Wesell's ship's canopy will not stay closed.
>
> Ditto for me :(. I tried something not as innovative as the rubber bands,
> but that worked for me all the same.
>
> I removed the green pokey up hollow piece right behind the canopy. Under
> that, I put a 1x2 translucent yellow plate (gotta maintain that day-glo
> theme). Then I replaced the green piece, so it stood a little higher. Then • I
> put a round translucent 1x1 piece in the front hollow of the green piece.
> Then I just *snap* the canopy in under it.
I did just this and I'm really happy with the results. Besides the problem
with the click hinge on the canopy I think this is a gorgeous ship. My
Slave 1 remained built for a little over and hour and I've also taken apart
Anikan's speeder--I wish they sold Zam's ship alone so I could keep one
together for awhile and use the other for it's parts. And the Zam Wessel
fig is one of my new favorites. She be bad.
-Jon
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Isn't she, though? I'd have preferred an unmasked version, but eh. Guess
they didn't have enough room on her tiny head for three face prints ;).
mo
www.galacticbrick.com
In lugnet.starwars, Jon Palmer writes:
> And the Zam Wessel
> fig is one of my new favorites. She be bad.
>
> -Jon
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In lugnet.starwars, Jim Green writes:
> I am having a moment of disappointment with my new Bounty Hunter Pursuit set
> that I'm wondering if others are experiencing. The issue: Zam Wesell's
> ship's canopy will not stay closed. I do not know if this is something
> intentional or accidental but the canopy hinge lacks a "tooth" on the
> interior side to fit the hinge sprocket of the receiving piece. The result
> is a canopy that flops open when tilted.
>
> I am of the mind that this is an oversight like what happened with the stair
> segments in the Harry Potter sets. The reason I believe this is that the
> canopy cannot be locked into the first toothed position without removing the
> ship's outriggers. Forgoing the thought of poor design, is it possible this
> section of the mold was accidentally reversed? Turning the hinge section 180
> degrees would put the tooth exactly where it needs to be to lock the canopy
> closed.
>
> Can others confirm that their canopy hinge is like mine or not?
Mine is precisely like that. I mentioned something about it in
passing in another post; it's very annoying indeed. The cause
is precisely what you identified: The hinge piece's "tooth" is
90-degrees "off" from what you need to keep it shut in the Jack
Stone sets. My solution was to use the "spare" blue Technic half-
pin with stud; I snapped that into the green piece at the top,
with the stud forward, and now the canopy "clicks" when it shuts
and the half-stud sticks out just enough to keep if from flopping
open. The rubber band solution is good too, but I hate to rely
on rubber bands. :)
best
LFB
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Actually that piece was made to do what it does for the same reason that the
front wings pop off. In the movie her ship crashes ( a nice little fight
scene involving anikan landing on top of it and slicing the wing off, almost
losing his lightsaber in the process)and her cockpit flies open. That was
the scene that they were trying to reproduce. I got this info from the Ep II
graphic novel. What I did though was put two 1x1 plates apiece on each side
and then put a 1x3 across the hinge. It doesn't open at all, but once Zam's
in there it doesn't really matter. Dave
In lugnet.starwars, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Jim Green writes:
> > I am having a moment of disappointment with my new Bounty Hunter Pursuit set
> > that I'm wondering if others are experiencing. The issue: Zam Wesell's
> > ship's canopy will not stay closed. I do not know if this is something
> > intentional or accidental but the canopy hinge lacks a "tooth" on the
> > interior side to fit the hinge sprocket of the receiving piece. The result
> > is a canopy that flops open when tilted.
> >
> > I am of the mind that this is an oversight like what happened with the stair
> > segments in the Harry Potter sets. The reason I believe this is that the
> > canopy cannot be locked into the first toothed position without removing the
> > ship's outriggers. Forgoing the thought of poor design, is it possible this
> > section of the mold was accidentally reversed? Turning the hinge section 180
> > degrees would put the tooth exactly where it needs to be to lock the canopy
> > closed.
> >
> > Can others confirm that their canopy hinge is like mine or not?
>
> Mine is precisely like that. I mentioned something about it in
> passing in another post; it's very annoying indeed. The cause
> is precisely what you identified: The hinge piece's "tooth" is
> 90-degrees "off" from what you need to keep it shut in the Jack
> Stone sets. My solution was to use the "spare" blue Technic half-
> pin with stud; I snapped that into the green piece at the top,
> with the stud forward, and now the canopy "clicks" when it shuts
> and the half-stud sticks out just enough to keep if from flopping
> open. The rubber band solution is good too, but I hate to rely
> on rubber bands. :)
>
> best
>
> LFB
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> Actually that piece was made to do what it
I rather doubt it, David. Very nice theory though! But there's a big
difference between a canopy that pops open when you want and a canopy that
never stays closed.
By the way, my solution to it was to remove the short green technical beam
behind the canopy and attach 2 green 1x4 tiles on top of the speeder. They
stick off a bit to the front, keeping the cockpit airtight this way, so to
say. When you move the "sliders" backward the canopy flops open, if you move
further, the wings pop off. Anyway, the tiles give the craft a smoother surface.
I'm wondering why noone noticed the poor decoration on the parts? What is
supposed to be orange on the canopy rather looks like light-brown. And the
decorated translucent 2x2 slopes right behind the canopy ... the green
decoration is so weak you can hardly see it :(
And one last rant: There are several light-grey 2x2-tiles with this model.
SHOP-AT-HOME, listen up! Would it been so hard to say "c'mon guys, just make
500.000 more for our customers..."?! No opportunity, uh? :(
"Primus" Burkhard
LEGO Mechcommander
www.go.to/LegoMC
Official Battletech Fan-Site
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WHAT ABOUT LEGO CUSTOMER SERVICE?
Okay, mine's screwed up too. Yes the crash theory is good, and that's what I
thought, but I WANT the cockpit to stay closed, w/out rubber bands, extra
parts, etc. SOOOO.....
Has anyone called lego on this. I know it's kind of a stretch, but for the
8448 super car, the "hydraulic" pistons went bad on the first run and lego
gladly sent me two extras. If lego is aware of the problem, (which surely
they have some sort of quality control since this rarely happens) then they
should have fixed the mold by now. Maybe they have replacement parts ready.
Anyone know either, how to alert lego to the problem and get new cockpits,
or where we can find out if replacements are available?
At first I thought it would be too expensive to make replacements, but the
piston/shock part for the super car had a metal "shock" and a piece of
rubber, slightly for complicated than a tinted/printed cockpit window.
I haven't gotten around to calling lego yet, plus I only have the S@H
number, and I doubt they would have any clue what I was talking about, so if
anyone thinks this is a worthy cause and has more connections than I do,
please act on it.
PS New sets rock, want gunship, but need to catch up on old sets like Darth
Maul bust. Got special edition shop at home today, it rocks too!
Remember: "Do or do not, there is no try."
Thanx,
Kevin
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