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Re: Imperial Star Destroyer landing shortly in Brisbane
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lugnet.loc.au
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Thu, 28 Nov 2002 01:56:31 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
> Mission control, we have touchdown!
Could we term the (Imperial) Star Destroyer, the 'Stott Despojah' in
Australian slang ? (or Natasha for short).
> 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).
Is it available as a hardback ?
> 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).
Available at Toyworlds for AU$799, Kmarts for $199, Big W for $203.83 and
TRUs 'free with every Jack Stone police HQ'.....or maybe not.
> 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.
Damaged goods are not Lego's fault this way. Buy from retail the expanding
universe sets and the problem lies with the retailer.
> 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.
Best to have the windows open, if opening all polybags at one time.
The earth's axis may shift.
> 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.
pete.w (the 'Stott Despojah', just another GPSP (grey plates supp.pack))
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| (...) The Stott Despojah -- I love it! But I do see a bit of paradigm mismatch between the Democrats and the Empire. Or are you suggesting that our Natasha is a Democrat leader who Fell In Love With A Dark Lord And Sold Out To The Forces Of Evil? (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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