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I've only opened one, one of the TIE-Fighter/Y-Wings. The others are
for my kids, some as Easter-basket presents, and the others prolly as
birthday presents. The instructions are pretty cool looking, with a
small (like 1.125"x.375") scene from the movie at the top of each page.
The cartoon at the end is even somewhat humorous. But the rebel pilot
must be a cloaked jedi--he uses the force to build stuff from the
wreckage of his lego ship.
Lots of cool pieces. Hey! Besides the interesting inverted-slope 6x6
pieces which the TIE-panels attach to directly, the panels are held on
by .... Freestyle 2x4 bricks with two end pegs! Those things we've all
got a half-million of in our drawers (well, it seems like I do). This
is too cool! :) TLG shows off some real creativity here.
(Pardon me while I gush a bit) Todd, I realize the Fibblesnork Lego
Guide is closed down, complete, soon to be converted to something even
better, but I think you should make an exception and add a page for the
Star Wars sets. They are just awesome.
This is absolutely the first time I have bought an entire line of LEGO
sets as soon as I found them. The only thing that even comes close is
when I was at LIC@MOA, and bought the Explorien Starship on first sight
(which was also about the first day it was on the shelves).
Steve
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:08:11 GMT, Scott Edward Sanburn
<ssanburn@aeieng.com> wrote:
> Awesome, Steve, don't enjoy them too much! ;) I am still looking at them
> longingly!
>
> Scott Sanburn
>
> Steve Bliss wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:01:44 GMT, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss)
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Well, it's off to 28th street (home of most major retail shopping in SE
> > > GR,MI) I go...
> > >
> > > Hmm. I wonder if Knapps Corner Meijers would be faster to get to?
> > >
> > > Steve
> >
> > Sorry to follow-up to my own posting, but here's the lunch-time report:
> >
> > I decided to go for Knapps Corners Meijers (seems like there should be
> > one or more apostrophes in there). The 28th Street strip, with its high
> > concentration of large retail establishments (TRU, K-Mart, Target,
> > Wal*Mart, and Meijers within just a few blocks) is too much of a draw
> > for free-range scalpers, I figured.
> >
> > Success! There was a relatively small amount of SW LEGO on the shelves.
> > No obvious open holes in the displayed goods, so either the store
> > employees just rearranged, or nobody has tried to clean them out.
> >
> > I got two TIE-Fighter/Y-Wings (the Y-Wing has always been my favorite),
> > and one of everything else. I left on the shelves:
> >
> > 1 or 2 X-Wings
> > No TIE-Fighter/Y-Wings
> > half-dozen or so of each of the Snow Speeder, Speeder Bikes, and
> > Landspeeder (never thought of the 'speeder' commonality before).
> >
> > Steve
>
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