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Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.[Star Wars Question]
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:18:54 GMT
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It was interesting to hear him talk about the designs. The orginal snow
speeder design had a working tow rope that was pulled for $$ concerns. All of
the models have to fit the price point to a fraction of penny.
-john
In lugnet.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 06:54:41 GMT, "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I bought one of every Lego SW set out there just because it was Star Wars
> > Lego.
> >
> > HOWEVER, I bought the manymany further SW sets for PARTS, because the PARTS
> > in them just flat out ROCK in most cases.
> >
> > I have seen many people post in RTL or lugnet.starwars that they were
> > buying the sets for the parts, because they didn't like TLG's renditions of
> > the vehicles.
>
> And how many part sales/auctions sprang almost immediately after the SW
> sets were released? There were a some people parting-out sets they must
> have bought at full-price.
>
> I personally think most of the model designs for the SW sets are *awesome*.
> Yes, MOC creations can easily be more realistic. But MOC's don't have to
> be commercially viable products. That large-scale TIE Interceptor is
> incredible, but I wouldn't expect TLG to start selling a set to build it.
>
> Steve
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