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In lugnet.starwars, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, David Simmons writes:
> > I'm actually quite disappointed with the Arctic sets and think they are
> > extremely juniorized. If you look at the large base set, it's composed
> > almost entirely of pre-fab pieces. There are almost no bricks in the set.
> > I may pick up a few of the smaller ones to get some more orange and a few of
> > those transparent boulders, but the theme overall leaves me cold (Sorry, I
> > couldn't resist!) :-)
>
> That's mainly what's kept me from going hogwild over the new Arctic sets --
> seems like a lot of air in the boxes. OTOH, I think 4 of the large pre-fab
> pieces in the big base are those awesome 4x4x6 concave corridor corners in
> Gray! (Can anyone confirm this? I love those pieces!)
>
> --Todd
That's the one piece in this theme that really interests me. I agree that the
boxes seem contain a lot of air which is why I have stayed away for now. I
really think those pieces would work great in space themes. I think in
quantity they would be great to make a model of the ship in "2001 a space
Odyssey" used as the spine of the ship. Actually I think the ship is the
"Odyssey" but it escapes me now.
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| (...) That's mainly what's kept me from going hogwild over the new Arctic sets -- seems like a lot of air in the boxes. OTOH, I think 4 of the large pre-fab pieces in the big base are those awesome 4x4x6 concave corridor corners in Gray! (Can anyone (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town)
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