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Re: New sets for 2001... finally (Pictures)
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Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:48:29 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.general, John Radtke writes:
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> > Am I going crazy or do I remember seeing white TIE fighters for the last 23
> > years? I know color accuracy is a big complaint in the Star Wars line, but
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> > this case the difference is literally black and white!!
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> You're crazy. ;) The TIEs have always been black/grey. The rebels, IMO, are
> more white than LEGO has tended to depict them.
Slow down there!
The Kenner TIE fighter toy was very, very white. Because of this, a lot of
people remember the TIE fighter as being white in the movie (kids like me had a
lot more exposure to the toys than the movies for years, after all). Worse, a
lot of artists for books, etc used the toys as models for their drawings, so
innacuracies in the toys (scale, certain features, etc) got carried over into
comics and comic strips (one of the joys in reading the Marvel Star Wars run
was figuring out which thing they used as a model for the Millenium Falcon in a
given panel, because it was often obviously drawn from a particular toy
version).
So he's not all *that* crazy.
eric
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| (...) For years before the toys were common, there were Star Wars cards. If you were a kid in 1977 you spent a lot more time looking at these than the actual movie. My prize Red #131, obtained in a gum pack in 1977, shows Darth Vader's fighter the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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