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Re: 4x2ReVu: 6977 Arachnoid Star Base
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Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:38:53 GMT
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Joseph Gonzalez wrote:
> In lugnet.space, Paul Baulch writes:
> >
> > > The set includes a nice array of parts including six of the large dark • grey
> > > arched struts, two dark trans-green arched struts, two black saucer bottom
> > > quarters and two dark trans-green quarter-saucer tops (though these are
> > > preprinted), plus a nice assortment of dark grey and blue bricks and
> > plates.
I think there's only five dark grey struts (an oh so useful number).
> > >
> > Cool. Dark grey and blue plates, huh? How many? Can't see many of 'em from
> > the box picture.
> > Black saucer bottom quarters.... this sounds good, but but I don't quite
> > know whether I've seen these before.
>
> The majority of the plates are blue (though there are also some black) and most
> of the dark grey bricks are sloping. Those black saucer bottom quarters also
> appeared in the 6198 Sting Ray Stormer. Hey, black saucer TOPS would be kind
> of cool to see in the future!
Give the SW line some time, they may do it--I'm just hoping for non-UFO grey
though!
> > Still an ugly, ugly, ugly looking set though. I wouldn't give it more than
> > three studs regardless of what the parts are like.
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> I'll agree with you that the set looks ugly (if not a bit lame) at first, but I
> like it substantially over the UFO offerings (though even those could have been
> so much better if the saucer sections and windows weren't so cluttered with
> preprinted crap).
> It also sometimes helps to have the actual model in one's hands (as many Sith
> Infiltrator fans apparently attest). Maybe Lego needs in-store displays that
> customers can play with BEFORE they buy (I can see the AFOLs "wooshing" around
> TRU isles now).
It's also $35 at a Wal-Mart around here--I'm waiting for it to go down again, to
match those $5 Planetary Prowlers and Celestial Stingers (6919 and 6969) I
bought...I *want* more bottom domes, those are worth $5 a pair at least!
LFB
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| (...) Hi Paul, The majority of the plates are blue (though there are also some black) and most of the dark grey bricks are sloping. Those black saucer bottom quarters also appeared in the 6198 Sting Ray Stormer. Hey, black saucer TOPS would be kind (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.reviews)
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