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Re: Imperial Star Destroyer landing shortly in Brisbane
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Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:24:55 GMT
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Mission control, we have touchdown!
My ISD arrived yesterday. The box is an impressive 600mm x 500mm x 20mm (the
box for the set, not the shipping carton which was obviously a little bit
bigger as we are discussing an ISD and not a Tardis). The instruction manual is
a monster 228 A3 pages. (A3 being double the size of A4, the standard computer
printer paper).
The box is a coloured box, so my bet is that we will be seeing this set
appearing via retail sooner or later (although whether we do in Oz is another
matter).
Inside the box, there are the instructions (mounted in a cardboard tray so they
don't slide about) and then the rest of the box is entirely taken up with 4
inner boxes (boring white in colour with a bit of uninteresting black text --
registered trademarks etc). There was NO flubber! Incredible, I did not believe
it was possible to get a flubber-free set.
Inside the 4 inner boxes, there are the usual polybags of bricks. The inner
boxes are about 2/3 full, meaning I have received the normal quota of Danish
air. I don't think I could have handled the strain of no Danish air and no
flubber. A brief scan through the instructions does not seem to make reference
to specific boxes, so I think these inner boxes are just to constrain content
movement during shipping, as opposed to the set having a modular design. That
is, I think I may need to have all the polybags simultaneously open during
construction, but time will tell.
Having built it within 1 hour, 3 minutes and 22 seconds, which beats all other
reported construction timess, I can say that it is a magnificent set.
Kerry
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 | | Re: Imperial Star Destroyer landing shortly in Brisbane
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| (...) other (...) I am, of course, lying through my teeth. I have not built it at all. I have not opened even a single polybag. And "times" is usually spelt with only one "s". Although I have seen a certain amount of LUGnet chatter about having (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
| | | Re: Imperial Star Destroyer landing shortly in Brisbane
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| (...) I recently opened a (URL) and tried some 20+ year old Danish air. It seems those Danes have got on top of their air pollution problem in that time :-) (...) If I hadn't already read your subsequent post, I'd have to say that was amazing, and (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
| | | Re: Imperial Star Destroyer landing shortly in Brisbane
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| (...) Could we term the (Imperial) Star Destroyer, the 'Stott Despojah' in Australian slang ? (or Natasha for short). (...) Is it available as a hardback ? (...) Available at Toyworlds for AU$799, Kmarts for $199, Big W for $203.83 and TRUs 'free (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| I just received an email from S@H telling me that my ISD has been dispatched. I see in lugnet.starwars that some have already been delivered in Europe. How many sleeps will it take to arrive, Santa? Kerry -- ===...=== Kerry Raymond kerry@dstc.edu.au (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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