 | | Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Eric Kingsley
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| | | The Undeniable: Set: 7124 - Gungan Patrol Theme: Star Wars (Episode I) Pieces: 105 Figs: 1 MSRP: $9.99 Part to $ ratio: 1:$.105 The Good: Lots of Green Plates and Tiles Classic Smiley Brown Hands on fig 3 2x4 Brown Bricks 2 2x4 Brown Slopes 10 2x2 (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | (...) Correction Part to $ ratio: 1:$.095 (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —John Neal
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| | | | | (...) I'd deny that set name. <ducks and runs> (...) The Excellent: My fav element (6091) in quantity in *green*{:^D (...) Good review. Thanks, Eric:-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Erik Olson
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| | | | | Your review is right on and I couldn't second it more cheerfully. This is the only 2000 set I dared buy right away. I like all the green of course. Also, it is the second set (after the Tattoine speeder) to have a wide 2-seat base, though not so (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Jeff Johnston
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| | | | | | | (...) Gasgano's Pod Racer from the Mos Espa Podrace set has both 1x4 and 4x4 hinge plates in green, if that's what you're looking for. J (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | (...) The skew bricks can be used for the same effect in a truck cab. (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Mike Petrucelli
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| | | | | | (...) and (...) (but (...) I (...) plate) (...) this (...) Well the picture makes the laser cannon look like it is positioned dumb. In reality the cannon clears the top of the guy's head. Just don't stand up. -Lord Insanity "A little nonsense now (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Johannes Keukelaar
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| | | | | "EK" == Eric Kingsley <kingsley@nelug.org> writes: EK> The Undeniable: EK> Set: 7124 - Gungan Patrol I deny that! I say it's: Set: 7124 - Flash Speeder ;) Johannes. -- A busstation is where a bus stops. A trainstation is where a train stops. On my (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | (...) Brasso fodder!! :) Jeff (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Peter Merryman
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| | | | | (...) This reminds me of the mirror trick used in "Star Wars". In a couple of shots, to make the landspeeder appear appear to hover a mirrored skirt was placed around the supporting structure below the chassis, hiding the wheels and reflecting the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | | (...) Do you have a source on this? I've sort of made a minor hobby of researching ILM's techniques (especially the early ones, from Star Wars and Empire- back when they were still fairly low-tech :D ) and I've never heard of this. I'm not (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Peter Merryman
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| | | | | | | | (...) I don't remember where I first read or heard it. I'm not near my home library right now, and I may have heard it at some presentation or another. A quick search on the web for confirmation yielded this: (URL) PBS's "Nova" pages. Not a primary (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | | (...) made the Landspeeder float: mirrors, and also vaseline on the camera lens. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —James Simpson
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| | | | | | (...) I can't remember the source, so take this for what it is worth: In the original ANH, remember that shot when the Landspeeder coasts into Mos Eisley, and the special effects shot had a sort of blurred, funky distortion underneath the speeder (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Jonathan Little
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| | | | | | | (...) Building off of what James said, in the video edition of ANH - SE, in the little intro where they tell some of the differences in the two editions, somebody (it may have even been Lucas, himself) says what James wrote above about vaseline on (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Steven Vore
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| | | | | | (...) the (...) being run (...) and the star destroyers' background engine sound is a cheap motel air conditioner, slowed way down, iirc. -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" (URL) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder —Damian Garcia
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| | | | Eric Kingsley wrote in message ... (...) I say THIS is a "huh?" (...) be? I think they are some type of designation ala the 1x4 yellow printed tiles on the Naboo fighter. (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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