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Re: 7106, 7126, 7166
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:04:35 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Jeff Johnston writes:
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> Anyway, I think a lot of the frustration comes from the knowledge that TLC
> can (and has) done better, especially in the Star Wars line - and that it
> would be *so simple* to make the set better...but, they probably needed
> the set to come in at the $10 price point, so they were limited in what
> they could do. For the set size that they made it, I think the AT-ST is
> the best it could be expected to be, and it does have great parts, and I
> probably will buy more.
I doubt that a better AT-ST could have been accomplished at the $10 price
point...the thing is...it shouldn't have been done at the $10 price point - it's
just too complex to be done well with such frugality. The AT-ST simply requires
a higher price point - akin to the Snowspeeder. The Snowspeeder was marvelously
done - a real masterpiece - small, compact, quite accurate, and very evocative
of the "real" thing; but it would not have been so brilliantly done had it been
requrired to meet a $10 price point. I don't really know what set should have
been done at the price point instead of the AT-ST (the Bespin Cloud Car,
perhaps), but it really should not have been the AT-ST. Thus said, I'm still
looking forward to getting it for its quite good selection of parts.
james
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| (...) For some reason I had it in my head that the AT-ST was $15, so I was pretty happy when I saw it was only $10. I agree that the parts were great, but I really would have been happier with even a $15 set and just a little more - a better hip (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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