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Re: Part 2 of the interview is up
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:52:46 GMT
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> > Ok, I don't know everyone's budget out there, but *I* just might buy a Death
> > Star for $500. Ok, so maybe my wife would kill me, but the Death Star would
> > make everyone at work quite envious! :)
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> You know, this quote really bugged me.
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> Clearly, Tim was not asking for a huge "Death Star" playset that made a
> minifig-scale complete Death Star. Kenner/Hasbro have produced *many* playsets
> from the Death Star settings- there's the four-story grandaddy from the
> original line, the two-piece "Death Star World" from the short-lived
> Micro-series (with metal figures, if that jars your memory), the multiple
> playsets from the more recent Power of the Force line... there are lots of
> ways, lots of sizes, lots of *solutions* to making a Death Star playset.
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> So, either the rep was giving a flip answer and playing dumb, or he's
> remarkably dense and detached from the process of designing these toys.
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> I'm not sure which quality would make him a worse interviewee.
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> Anyway, LEGO can choose all they want to not to make a Death Star playset. I
> don't care! If I really want to have a Death Star playset, I'll build one
> myself... that's the beauty of LEGO.
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> eric
<Me too post>
I have to agree. The first thing that came to mind when I saw this was the
old Kenner playset with the little green monster and the foam garbage stuff.
Clearly we don't need the whole planet or a docking station for the Falcon
or Tyderium. Well, ok, we do need them and it would be nice but some kind
of a diorama would work.
(junior)
who still has all of his original playsets :)
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| (...) You know, this quote really bugged me. Clearly, Tim was not asking for a huge "Death Star" playset that made a minifig-scale complete Death Star. Kenner/Hasbro have produced *many* playsets from the Death Star settings- there's the four-story (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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