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Re: Brickfest 2003 Question and Answer
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Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:41:06 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Allan Bedford wrote:
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Seems to me that the type of set, and the theme of it, are an odd mix. Maybe
I’m missing something.
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Nope, you have it right I think. Fortunately, all we may have to do is wait for
these to get clearanced to score them cheap. I think at one point I was seeing
the Millenium Falcon at 50%. Patience is your friend.
The problem with this set, as with much of the HP stuff, is that it doesn’t
really seem to build anything recognizable or solid. It’s just a play area or
series of scenes.
I just built #4729 Dumbledore’s Office and even though I got it for a great
price for 446 elements I can assure you that the set isn’t actually that great.
It’s more like a dollhouse, without a truly recognizable structure. What’s
weird is that the set has great details that just don’t make that much sense
when you put it all together -- they add up to some bizarre tower-like thing
that doesn’t really look like a tower. The second level folds out for no
particular reason except to possibly give you easier access to the interior
which contains nothing. There’s a secret entrance on one side at the bottom,
but that side really looks like the backside of something, I just don’t know
what. The only really cool part is the first floor entrance closure, where at
least the parts that fold out have stuff that you can fiddle with inside. But
even the closure point needs a more finished look -- it needs a stacked series
of two 1x1 plates capped with a 1x1 tile where there’s a 1x1 brick space that is
left empty.
Likewise, I think the theory for this new star wars set is that you will reenact
scenes from the movie with it -- I just think that it’s a bad bet they have made
with this set. Only hardcore collectors will care. Everyone else will be
standoffish until they can score it cheap. Lando is neat, but if I can’t get
this set at deep discount I’ll just wait for the brown basketball players to go
to deep discount -- that will be a better and more useful source for the “black
pack” we’ve been wanting anyway. Consider the comments provided by Larry once
again:
“A cloud city star wars play set... there is a different hairdo for leia.”
I bet there’s only interest in the hair element there.
“It has a landing platform for your stuff.”
What stuff? Stuff that doesn’t come with the set?
“lots of modularity...”
Uh-huh -- is that like saying “fragmented design concept”?
“chamber where Luke battles Vader...”
We have this already by way of Final Duel I and II.
“there also is a thing that flings Luke...”
Yeah, that’s my big concern -- where’s the thing that flings Luke...
“also has the Carbon Freezing Chamber with a new Boba...put han in and out comes
frozen han...”
We have unfrozen and frozen Hans already. And let’s face it, that 1x2x5 black
white printed frozen Han pretty much sucked the first time around. I did see a
really neat custom one where someone had cut a minifig at various angles to make
it look as if it were half-embedded in a 1x2x5 brick -- that was pretty cool! I
bet we aren’t getting that.
Bobba with the printing on arms is interesting historically, but for no other
reason. We already have a Bobba anyway.
“it has a Lando too! Lando is brown!”
The big unveiling, now a complete letdown because the basketball sets came first
anyway. Don’t get me wrong though, he does look really great!
The Cloud City set is the Final Duel sets writ large, and I saw the Final Duel
sets everywhere at deep discount -- like stacks and stacks of them. And maybe
it’s just me, but why does the set look like a cafeteria of a sort? Is Leia
being served by the Stormtrooper? Maybe Luke and Vader should stop dueling, go
and sit down with the Princess, and just have a nice cuppa...
What were they thinking? $1OO for what? A brown minifigure? Seriously, which
of us reading this couldn’t build this set right now in probably all the same
colors. Unique items look to be some white corkscrew thing, the brown plant, and
maybe the new hair element. This is a joke, right?
-- Hop-Frog (just call me Mr. Sour Grapes)
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| (...) snip (...) Actually Final Duel I and II were fron Return of the Jedi (the second time Luke fights Vader and has a green lightsaber) This Duel is from Empire Strikes Back (the first time Luke fight Vader and has a blue lightsaber.) (...) In (...) (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| (...) for this set. (...) Do 'kids' over 14 identify enough with this movie (now 23 years old) to want to spend $100 on this set? Will there be a lot of adult Star Wars fans who will want to spend the money on this set? I understand the connection (...) (21 years ago, 10-Aug-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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