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In lugnet.adventurers, Adrick Tolliver writes:
> In lugnet.adventurers, Andrew Summersgill writes:
> > > and Star Wars, all set in the present or future.
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> > Sorry - got to be picky here, Star Wars is probably the oldest era of all
> > Lego sets - it was after all set "Long long ago in a galaxy far far away".
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> No, it was set in our future, but the story was being told by someone for
> whom the events of the Star Wars saga were in the past. Got it?
No, I don't think that you can draw that conclusion. There's nothing in the
movie to date it (by our timeline) and while it seems to be a retelling of a
story (at least from the intro scrolls with each movie) it's not a given. I
know the rumor/urban legend that the set of 9 movies would end with R2-D2
and C-3PO talking to each other about their adventures but there's been no
canonical (sp?) proof of that. Just MHO.
FUT set to lugnet.starwars
Jason
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| (...) The "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." line is, in fact, meant to mean that this all happened a long time ago from when we are now, and in a galaxy far, far away from where we are now. That was meant to give it a thrust of (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Ok, ok! But that's not the point! Is it too much to ask for a theme that DOES NOT have space ships and rockets and isn't based on a movie? There aren't even any new Town sets (unless you count the Alpha Team) for crying out loud! What happend (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) No, it was set in our future, but the story was being told by someone for whom the events of the Star Wars saga were in the past. Got it? (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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