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| (...) <snip> (...) I believe the cancellation of the Star Wars bucket may have prevented a lot of TLG flaming. Why? Did anyone ever consider what the contents of this bucket would have been? As far as I know, Lego never included "theme-type" pieces (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) That Star Wars toothpaste is absolutely *essential* if you want to brush your teeth wearing your Darth Vader Underoos. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) It sounds plausable to me (not their reasons for cancellation, but the fact that it may have been a FreeStyle bucket because of the name that S@H had for it: "3+ Star Wars Bucket"). But I'd still rather see a sucky juniorized SW bucket than (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| I won't be happy if it is. Think about it - the SW sets are heavy in dark grey plates, and orange, green, and purple bits. A bucket would have parts in colors we've never seen in buckets before. I could care less if it had any minifigs at all, as (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) They are? I haven't bought that many SW sets as I couldn't see many bricks in them I wanted. I only bought the landspeeders because of that intriguing light green plate and all the brown bricks. But I don't recall seeing any orange or purple (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| In lugnet.general, Simon Robinson writes: [sniper] (...) Orange: in de Snowspeeder among others.. HtH Mark "working on Ep1-sets to come to Europe" de Kock (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| The Mos Espa Pod Race has tons of new orange pieces, some new green pieces, and a couple new purple pieces. If it weren't $90, I'd have several by now. (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) It could have been a purple bucket with a SW label on the front and no other difference. We would have railed at that as being stupid and opportunistic. (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Yea, I bought two based on price per part. Judging from Sebulba's racer (haven't built the others yet) I would say its a good buy. Assuming the Star Wars bucket followed some of the color patterns of the Star Wars set, it would be awsome. It (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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