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Re: 7106, 7126, 7166
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Fri, 22 Dec 2000 15:33:13 GMT
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In article <G5y1H0.E1o@lugnet.com>, Chris Gordon <chrisg@island.net> wrote:
I dunno, the real model for the movies wasn't 8 km long :-)
It was probably around 2 metres :-)

A little larger, but not a whole lot. I saw one of the models at the
National Air and Space Museum in DC a couple years back.

The detail, close up, is incredible. They must have kit-bashed about a
zillion WWII battleship model sets to build this thing; turrets and railings
and guns and such _everywhere_...

I think in Lego terms, though, a Star Destroyer would make a better "base"
type set than a ship.

-JDF
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J.D. Forinash                                     ,-.
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(...) Unless the exhibit changed from when I was there, they didn't have the Super Star Destroyer at the "Magic of Myth" exhibit in DC. They did have one of the Star Destroyer models, however. At the "Art of Star Wars" exhibit at Yerba Buena Gardens (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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I dunno, the real model for the movies wasn't 8 km long :-) It was probably around 2 metres :-) ---...--- cg-88@home.com ---...--- IG-88 was nothing! CG-88 is all-powerful!!! kai brodersen <cbrodersen@mediaone.net> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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