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Re: Alpha Team sighting in Columbus OH
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 3 Mar 2001 04:19:36 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Rose Regner writes:
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> Mark D. McKean wrote in message ...
> > Found my first Alpha Team set today (in Columbus, OH, at the W. Broad
> > St. TRU). 6773 Alpha Team Helicopter. They had about ten of them on the
> > shelf. It was the only Alpha Team set they had out. Of course I bought
> > one :-) .
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> > No real review, but a few comments about it:
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> > - The canopy doesn't seal very well, and the hinge for it feels like
> > there's a slight size tolerance mismatch.
Take the minifig out and see if it closes better. I noticed after I assembled
mine that the minifig sitting in certain positions was too tall for the canopy.
When I moved him a little, the canopy closed around him just fine.
> My five year old just put this set together and I found that the canopy fits
> very well. Our UCS xwing has a canopy problem. Maybe you just got a bad
> part.
No one's UCS Xwing canopy closes well, apparently. Mine doesn't, and I saw a
whole thread about it a week or so ago.
eric
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 | | Re: Alpha Team sighting in Columbus OH
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| (...) I figured that out the next day. It's the hairpiece that seems to be the problem...that sharp edge along the front sticks out farther than would a helmet. But I found a position that works. I've actually noticed a number of models, over many (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Alpha Team sighting in Columbus OH
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| Mark D. McKean wrote in message ... (...) My five year old just put this set together and I found that the canopy fits very well. Our UCS xwing has a canopy problem. Maybe you just got a bad part. Rose (23 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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