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Re: Wanted: Images of New Elements
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:22:11 GMT
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In lugnet.year.2001, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.year.2001, James Brown writes:
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> > Here ya go. Including that controversial white armour guy. ;) He's even got
> > printing front & back (pretty uncommon, I think).
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2140
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> Thanks for posting these! I'm x-posting to (and setting FUT) lugnet.starwars
> in case anyone missed it.
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> > Apologies to whoever it was I told the TIE pilot and ST had different • helmets:
> > they don't. Printing is different, but the helmet mold is the same. (not
> > surprising, really - the two "originals" are pretty close as it is)
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> Ah, nuts. I *know* each new mold for a new piece costs LEGO serious cash in
> design and manufacture, and I *know* therefore they can only do so many in a
> given year, and I would *DEFINITELY* rather have a Stormtrooper than a TIE
> Pilot, but the TIE Pilot's helmet is significantly different from the
> Stormtrooper's helmet IRL (I'm talking about costumes, so yes, they do exist • in
> real life, thanks). Moreover, the TIE Pilot's helmet is *exactly* the same as
> the AT-AT Driver's helmet, so that mold would have come in handy of they ever
> did get around to making an AT-AT set (don't laugh, I think they could do it-
> not as nicely as Dave Eaton's or Shaun Sullivan's, mind you- for a $100 price
> point).
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> All that said, I'll be more than happy to take the black ST helmets and put
> them on BT1 fig bodies, to make Imperial Commandos.
Imperial Commandos wore very dark grey (almost black) jumpsuits (similar to
officers) with black "samurai" helmets. You could however make the black
stormtroopers from the comic "Crimson Empire"
-Lord Insanity
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