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Ok, great pictures then. What kind of camera and lighting conditions did you use? These pictures came out very nicely. Pat J In lugnet.starwars, Mark Sandlin writes: ?In lugnet.starwars, Patrick Justison writes: ??Wow! The HF-130 Freighter is (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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(...) But what you're not incorporating into this assertion is the fact that, at least on some level, the development of the characters was influenced by the actors themselves. Luke's run-in with the Wampa (sp?) was dictated by an accident suffered (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) into a very (...) job (...) success. Thanks! I got the idea for the front-load ramp with overlooking cockpit from the M.I. dropships in Starship Troopers. I originally intended for the ramp to drop in one large piece, but I couldn't implement (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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Wow! The HF-130 Freighter is awesome. Great features incorperated into a very nice design. The ship looks very functional without being too big. Great job on the loading ramp. I have tried those before but never with as much success. The ship (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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(...) minifg (...) my (...) Hmmmm. Why are they Native AMERICANS? What about us? In all rights they should be Native Canadians, we are the bigger country (1) no matter what the "neighbours" think... <<KM>> (1) landmass wise, not economically, we're (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I like this idea! There are some really cool models done before the official sets came out. Color accuracy no counting. Pat J (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) as (...) they're (...) I'll (...) about (...) I am going by the dimensions of the Life-sized model seen in the Star Wars Trilogy. The sets seen in the movies occupy 40% more space than is available in the life-sized model. What the Star Wars (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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Hi Mark, I must say that I really appreciate your attention to detail. The Mithrandir is an excellent model. I think it is cool the way that you posed all the mini-figs going through the motions of their duties. One question - What set offers the (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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(...) I have a suggestion - best Pre-Official Star Wars Lego Model. This would be for all models built from elements from sets which pre-date the official Star Wars Lego models. That means: no smoked canopies; no wide wings; no large disc bricks; no (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) But that makes them absolutly NO DIFFERENT as a mini-fig. If mini-Han and mini-Luke had tan heads then it would make sense for mini-Lando to have a brown head. However they are not based on the actors. Mini-Luke and mini-Han have yellow heads (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I disagree. This would result in too many categories, or be restrictive on entries - you'd have to have the right sets to enter. Instead, the judge should consider the difficulty, detail and ingenuity in making the alternative, whichever set (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I *know* they're characters. Here's my point. Tell me the name of the guy who is portrayed by the Indian Cheif. The actual guy. There isn't one! It's just a generic figure. Now, I can tell you the names of the guys who are portrayed by the (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I just wanted to second Todd's thoughts here. The main reason I have not participated in the survey is that it seems "fishy" to me. It seems to me if LEGO wanted an "Offical Survey" they would do it themselves not through a supposidly (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Out of curiosity, where are you getting your numbers from? According to the SW site, the falcon is 27 meters long, which translates into about 88.5 feet, which should be 620mm long as a minifig scale model (1 minifig foot ~ 7mm, given that a (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Tim, I think it's totally great that "LEGO" (whatever that means) is soliciting feedback about SW:UCS sets!, but I'm still suspicious that this is an unofficial channel. If it is, then not only would it be misleading to say "LEGO wants to (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Yes, this is another way in which it'd be a win for Lego. :) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) ...That would be a nightmare, since then I'd have to buy dozens of each set to make sure I got all the combinations of minifig head colours/patterns! :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy ((URL) #160 (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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You know, sometimes I could just kick myself. :^P (...) Spacecraft (...) all (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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Started up the new UCS Survey for LEGO - Posted news of the AAT and MTT hitting retail in the UK - Set up the first several steps for building Shaun's AT-ST - Wrote a column for the site - Posted belatedly about the 1999 LEGO Maniax exhibition in (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Making the Death Star as a UCS set wouldn't make sense. In order to make it large enough to see sufficient detail to justify the UCS status, it would have to be huge. I'm not interested in a $500 model that's essentially a gray sphere. I want (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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