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Re: A Falcon in the works???
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Date: 
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:22:07 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Brok writes:
> John Gerlach wrote in message ...
> > In lugnet.starwars, Andrew R. Southwick writes:
> > > "jonathan wilson" <wilsonj@xoommail.com> twice wrote something like:
> > > > so if Lucas told TLG that in order to fill the Star Wars licence they
> > > > had to build a minifig scale Death Star they would do it, right?
> > > 
> > > That would be taller than the tallest building on the West Coast,
> > > and would cost into the billions of dollars, if it was a full model.
> > > Given the large size, a partial model would probably be more
> > > appropriate (i.e. it would be the shell of a sphere and only have
> > > enough internal stuff for a few shots here and there), yet still
> > > cost several million dollars.  The difficulty would be in getting
> > > past city ordinances to build something that large.
> > 
> > And the directions would have to be on several cd-roms, since printing that
> > much paper would deforest several hundred acres of land.
> > 
> > ;-)
> 
> 
> There might even be fierce fighting on getting that Death Star Building
> Plan.
> 
> Eric

You never know, someone might try to steal them :)

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/



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John Gerlach wrote in message ... (...) There might even be fierce fighting on getting that Death Star Building Plan. Eric (27 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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