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My son (age 5) and I just built mine and we had a blast! It's an incredible ship. It's huge too. It's my all time favorite star wars ship. A bit flimsy though, and the highly touted dark red pieces seem to me to just be cheap manufacturing. In fact (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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Just building the Dart Vader Technic and I have run into a few problems. 1st, the instructions show the body to be complete with just a post for the head, but the head instructions show a rotating ball as the connection to the body. How do I make (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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I own this set and it's excellent. I also have the UCS sets and I feel the RBR is every bit as good, possibly better. It is far more creative with SNOT that in the UCS sets and you'll get a *lot* of build time (it also took me about 5 hours to (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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i bought it, built it, loved it. there are 52 white quarter cylinder elements. after building it, i find it highly unlikely that the ship can be converted to minifig scale without altering the size and/or appearance of ship. some possibility lies in (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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Found my first real batch of 2002 sets at Target today. The report on the suspected 'dark red' color in the Pod Car? WRONG!! It is standard LEGO red, and the darker pieces are the standard LEGO *brown*... I'm very disappointed in this! I was really (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.general)
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(...) I got one of these for Christmas, and I too had a mix of opaque and translucent pieces. My guess is that they are using two different types of plastic and they haven't matched the colors quite right. -- Tim Buchheim (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) is (...) I too was considering this set, but was wondering the same thing. Then I saw one in person and I must say my interest cooled a bit. Fundamentally, I just don't find it an attractive model. It's impressive in terms of size, but (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) ...Well, I thought it was def. worth it! It is a great build (about 5 hrs for me and I enjoyed every bit of it) and a truly beautiful model to behold (usurped the place of the Tie Interceptor in my model display)... and the parts! chock full (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Ooh - tusken raiders and Yoda in 2002????
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"travis" <tyanke@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GpBHnJ.Ltp@lugnet.com... (...) Thanks, I missed those threads and didn't think to use the web interface to do a search first. Dan (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) yeah this was discussed some time ago already. forget what thread it was. the tusken raiders should be cool though. (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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Has anyone else seen this? I was taking a look at the skateboard park link in the lugnet.general thread "IS LEGO COPYING MEGA-BLOCKS NOW?" and spotted the following images? (URL) Raider Encounter appears to be 2 sets (ignore the display stand (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Um... I think you need a minor vocabulary lesson. :-) Trasparent: You can see through it and light passes through it. Opaque: You can not see through it nor does light pass through it.. Translucent: You can not see through it but light passes (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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Hey, I managed to pick up all the new sets at Toys R Us in Oakville. They trickled in one at a time starting a few weeks ago with 8009 (R2D2), then Ewok Attack, them Final Duel I, II, Jedi Defense I, then a few more days (week before Christmas or (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) C'mon, these parts will show up elsewhere, and getting them in a common color like red is almost a lock. Whereas, it's now almost a lock that we'll never get this set in the proper color, the color that every other toy Cloud Car since the 80's (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Since the combination of lego and star wars is the coolest combination of hobbies in the entire history of all civilization. And since, the Runner is thee coolest starship in all of star wars. And, in a week or so, when it finally arrives at (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I recently got the new Technic R2D2 set (8009). It has several parts with the new dark blue color. Some of the dark blue parts were noticeably translucent while the others were quite solid in color. TLC must still be working on their pigment (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) You can't be serious! That they chose red is, IMHO, just absolutely great. It's a orangish red anyway. There was a lot of orange in previous sets (snow speeder for instance) and I am glad to see these very useful parts come out in red rather (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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I am considering buying this pricey set, but I wanted to see if everyone here thought it was worth it first. I have not seen one in person so it is hard to judge. Thanks, Chuck (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) In my humble opinion the cloud car is rather spiffy actually. It seemed to scale with the the other starfighters and well constructed. In any event in the movies they seemed reddish to me anyway. My eyes! My eyes! What's the matter with them? (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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Actually I rejoice in the absence of printed legos. I can't stand stickers and really can't stand legos that have stuff imprinted on it. How many "glass" pieces have been ruined? The space stuff is really bad. They insist on putting horrible designs (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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