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Wow, I have three or four Droid Factories by Kenner - is that the droid
factory you mean or are you talking about a Lego clone?
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Mr L F Braun wrote in message <3742A102.7918BD5B@pilot.msu.edu>...
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> John DiRienzo wrote:
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> > Also, I have quite a few Tente. Some Space and some old Battleship
> > parts. I had these when I was 5 or so, and I remember liking Lego Space
> > sets much more than the Tente kind, but I really did like the Battleships
> > and actually messed with them a lot. I found most of my Tente pieces in • a
> > Star Wars Droid Factory box, but could not find the instructions anywhere
> > among my belongings. Is it possible that someone else would still have • the
> > instructions to the Battleships set and could scan them? I would like to
> > rebuild my ship then give a detailed "adult" opinion of it. As a child,
> > even if it wasn't Lego, it was one of my favorites.
>
> I loved Tente--it was the only good way to build
> believeable ships for me, until about three years
> ago when I had my design "breakthrough" that
> made the size of Lego hulls effectively limitless, if
> angular (but not pixellated). I had two destroyers
> and a little aircraft carrier! I even still have all
> of the planes. I like them, but I really don't use
> them anymore--I wish I could have found the
> ships with the big turrets and the giant carrier
> with the tiny attack jets!
>
> My opinion, having rebuilt my "Merrill" destroyers?
> They were pretty good approximations. Those 5"
> DP turrets are right on the money for accuracy--
> and I loved the little torpedo tubes and AA gun
> tubs. Unfortunately, most of the AA guns are
> broken off, although only one of the 5" turrets has
> shared this fate. If you find yourself in need of
> Tente, I've given up trying to add to my collection
> and so it's negotiable as parts. Anything to get
> more bits to build my Lego fleet, and recreate
> the 2.5 meter behemoth of last summer...I have
> no instructions, though.
>
> Now the Droid Factory, *that* was a very cool
> thing...:)
>
> LFB.
>
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