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OK. I opened the box, I built the models, and here's what I thought about it: The Packaging: quite different from other LEGO sets. I think the box was designed by someone who pays more attention to marketing than most TLG designers. It's a slicker (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: First Impressions of #7150 - TIE Fighter / Y-Wing
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Im glad to see that the sets are out and people are getting and building them. Although there are none as I could find in the NJ area, I await impatiently. To answer a few questions. 1) The TIE Advanced(Lord Vaders TIE fighter) had no blue on it. It (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: First Impressions of #7150 - TIE Fighter / Y-Wing
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(...) I think we're both right on this one. I didn't have a lot of time to poke around, but I did run across some information that there were two models of Y-Wings. One was a single-seater with the ion cannon fixed (pointing to either fore or aft). (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36e56951.20687535@l...et.com>... (...) Very true. The original Y-Wing was a two seater. However, there is a single-seat varient called the Longprobe. Relevant text from The Star Wars Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Bright spot...NJ
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I believe you may be right about who gets them last as you live farther away from CT than most. However, NJ is the worst state in the US when it comes to getting something new. Ever wonder why everyone always pokes fun at NJ? Its because it sucks (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: First Impressions of #7150 - TIE Fighter / Y-Wing
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On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:18:41 GMT, Steve Bliss uttered the following profundities... (...) I thought the official acronym designations were to be similar to bodily functions? Such as: POOP:Plainly a Once Only Piece. I am not terribly witty, but I am (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Bright spot...NJ
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On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:28:10 GMT, Jason Fabisch uttered the following profundities... (...) And mine, too. I lived there for 12 years, and it was horrible. If you remember that horrible film, "Desperately Seeking Susan," one of the comments (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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(...) But we can't get too witty, such as finding a suitable lego-ish definition for the acronym of "So Happy It's Thursday" or else Todd might not allow it, and it could just be in plain bad taste. :) BURP and SPUD are somewhat derogatory, but are (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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(...) Is this really a SPUD? I haven't had a chance to see this set in real life yet, but my first reaction from the picture was 'neat -- I wonder if they are going to use the TIE canopy as the window in a Bespin playset next year?' (25 years ago, 12-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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(...) The first time I saw the TIE fighter window, I wanted to make two things: 1) The Bespin Duel scene, with the big round window, and 2) the Emperor's Throne Room from RotJ. I don't consider it a SPUD- there are a lot of big, round windows in the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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(...) My (main) problem is that this piece is bigger than it should be -- its base is 2 studs deep, plus the domed part and gun-points that stick out in front. And the whole thing is the trans-smoke material. I think if this part was only 1-deep (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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(...) I agree about the hard-points for the guns. But compared to the rest of the pieces in this set, the TIE front-side seem very SPUD-ish to me... Steve (25 years ago, 12-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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(...) --snipped all the great text reviewing the sets-- (...) hey steve i'm tuning in REAL late here (i haven't visited the reviews group for quite awhile) but i wanted to thank you for your in-depth review of not only the models but the elements, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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(...) Thanks for the kind comments. I'm not sure I could do those kind of reviews very often, but this was a special case. (...) I really like Galactus (and the Silver Surfer, of course), but he should have shown up much less frequently than he did. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: First Impressions of #7150 - TIE Fighter / Y-Wing
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<SNIP> (...) Yeah, and my R5-D4 (isn´t it R4-D5?) body had poor printing. No black! :-( --Tobias (24 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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<SNIP> (...) and (...) often (...) My friend (who is really into starwars) told me that there *are* two pilots in the "real" thing, one that flies the ship and one that aims the ion cannon, that *did* pivot. But why care, the set is great. --Tobias (24 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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