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Re: Interview with LEGO at Toy Fair
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Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:10:13 GMT
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Well, does anyone remember the "gun" pieces that came with the old Space
sets? Those would have been PERFECT Star Wars blasters.

You can kind of see the mini-fig holding it in this pic
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?q=6803_1&v=z

Here is a great picture of what I am talking about, the top right hand
corner, anyone else remember these?
http://img.lugnet.com/display.cgi?set/new/upload/5157-1-940454060.jpg

Chris

From: "Bryan Hodges" <bhodges@SPAMBLOCKcos.wantweb.net>
Organization: None
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:09:33 GMT
To: lugnet.starwars@lugnet.com
Subject: Re: Interview with LEGO at Toy Fair

Agreed... also the guns from the western/adventurers themes look more like
real guns than the SW blasters would.  I really don't see how TLG can
justify all of the spears, bows, crossbows, swords, axes, pistols, rifles,
and knives that are found in other themes but they cannot justify blasters.
It's a double standard.



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  Re: Interview with LEGO at Toy Fair
 
Umm, yeah, the rebel trooper with the Snowspeeder has one... cg-88@home.com Chris Norman <chrisndeca@mac.com> wrote in message news:B6B30F75.B074%c...mac.com... (...) like (...) rifles, (...) blasters. (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.starwars)

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(...) While I agree that we should've gotten some blasters, we didn't *JUST* get "the old megaphone piece." We also got some really nifty lightsabers. Lego could have simply bundled in an old antenna piece in the appropriate colors and I don't think (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.starwars)  

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