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(...) My stats come from the "Behind the Magic" PC-CDROM. It includes production models, concept art, and a description based of the ideas of the ship from the movie. (...) I checked the CD again it says A-wing have two launchers each with a rack of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: B-wing (slightly off topic)
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(...) Again, it depends where you get your stats. You didn't say where you got yours, but I prefer to use the stats from the Star Wars RPG books. In the RPG, the A-wing doesn't have concussion missiles. Another consideration is that not only does (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Quick review of the Belville Yacht
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Set #: 5848 Price paid: $44.00 (1) My sister finally opened her birthday present, after a month of hiding it in the closet and ten more days when she "couldn't find time". (Being a 10-year- old, she's *very* busy ;-) We built it together (I let her (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.belville)
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Background: It was my now annual spring trip to Europe and this time around it was Spain. One full day we spent shopping in downtown Madrid. While my wife and daughter had fun at the department store, El Corte Ingles, my son an I ventured off to a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: B-wing (slightly off topic)
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(...) Using any computer GAME for stats in plain silly. (...) Exactly (...) Wrong. The A-wing has two concussion missile launchers. Realize that a concussion missle would be about the size of a lightsaber blade piece (slightly shorter though) and it (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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Background: I was at Toy Works and saw a small batch of these hidden behind some other LEGO sets around March 1999. I had to get them at only $1.99 each. Then, it was deja-vu. I was at MacFrugal's just about a month ago and found a small stack (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews)
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Crossposted to Town, I hope this is okay. ---...--- "It's the blizzard…you'll never outrun it." and then only static emitted from the radio. Kyle can see nothing outside the transport windows and knows he'll never make it back to the base in time (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: B-wing at Rebel Control Center
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(...) Well, it is trans-yellow, I thought there was trans-yellow before, but I can't find it. Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator/CAD Operator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Page -> (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: B-wing at Rebel Control Center
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(...) and (...) Actually, we never have, if the visor is trans-yellow and NOT trans-antifreeze. I'm really jazzed about this! Dave (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Android vs. Droid vs. Automaton (Re: 4x2ReVu: 7141 Naboo Fighter)
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(...) You'd be surprised. My best friend looked an awful lot like R2-D2 for a while. (...) They do refer to them as "Astromech Droids." (...) Is it possible that simply exhibiting human behaviour is enough to merit the use of the Greek "Andro-", (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: B-wing (slightly off topic)
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(...) Yuck. I don't consider the X-wing series because it's a game, and most games change things to make them easier to program or more exciting. For instance: 1) You couldn't rotate the B-Wing's fuselage in the game. 2) A-Wings do not have (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: B-wing (slightly off topic)
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(...) In the X-Wing series, it had 3 ion cannons and 3 blasters (which where always changing places on the wings and cockpit, IMHO XWA had the best configuration). If you look at the official LEGO B-Wing, on each wing there is the large standard (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Android vs. Droid vs. Automaton (Re: 4x2ReVu: 7141 Naboo Fighter)
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(...) R2 and other's like him where also refred to as "Astro-droids" in EP1, I believe. (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: B-wing (slightly off topic)
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(...) I'll see what I do! I'll try to make a second cockpit for my B-Wing (see the dat file here: (URL)) to hold two 'figs! Jeff (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: B-wing (slightly off topic)
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In lugnet.reviews, Joseph Gonzalez writes: <snip> (...) <snip> According to the Star Wars Roleplaying Game, ( I haven't read a thorough B-wing history anywhere else) The B-wing starfighter was designed as a heavy weapons ship whose primary function (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Android vs. Droid vs. Automaton (Re: 4x2ReVu: 7141 Naboo Fighter)
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Isn't "Astromech" a _type_ of Droid? (as "pickup" is a type of truck, though sometimes used as a noun itself) Interesting curiosity; "Red" - the R2 with a bad motivator that Owen first purchased - is referred to in the script I've got as an (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: B-wing at Rebel Control Center
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Joseph Gonzalez <hsadm2.jgonzale@ema...ate.ut.us> wrote in message news:FoA9xw.1HE@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) dollars (...) For (...) it (...) and a (...) I have not yet purchased this model but I have examined the box in stores and it looks like a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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The war ended more than a year ago. Ceremonies were held, medals were awarded and most of the men went home to their families, but not Aram Andrus. Sole survivor of a hundred skirmishes, he saw too many friends die at the hands of the Imperials to (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Android vs. Droid vs. Automaton (Re: 4x2ReVu: 7141 Naboo Fighter)
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"JG" == Joseph Gonzalez <hsadm2.jgonzale@ema...ate.ut.us> writes: JG> The problem I see with using these terms is that Webster's JG> Dictionary defines android as "having human features" (which the JG> R2 units definitely do not have). Consequently, (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Android vs. Droid vs. Automaton (Re: 4x2ReVu: 7141 Naboo Fighter)
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(...) The problem I see with using these terms is that Webster's Dictionary defines android as "having human features" (which the R2 units definitely do not have). Consequently, one couldn't use the 'droid term either because it is just a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars)
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