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Re: what's left for LEGO to make?
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Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:05:45 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eivind Lokken writes:
> TLC has made almost every small craft that can be made from the movies. What
> is left for them to do? They don't seem too keen on making scenery playsets,
> from what we have seen so far. It's a little early for speculations, but it
> just crossed my mind. I've seen a picture of a jawa sandcrawler, so that's
> possible. They're not going to be making star destroyers, cruisers or
> freighters!!! Maybe Jaba's sailbarge...?
> Just look at what they made last: droid escape and the battledroid carrier.
> Those are some really peripheral ships in the movies. I'm thinking that they
> are running out of ideas...
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> check out my custom Falcon at:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2704
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> Eivind Lokken
Personally, I'd love to see Star Wars freestyle buckets. The podrace bucket
was a sad start, but along those lines...just because TLC has run out of
actual star wars sets to build doesn't mean they can't make star wars
branded items with a star wars look and feel. Take a look at the old Kenner
star wars toys...They released a number of small toys that were never seen
or just briefly glimpsed in the movie...see these links for example:
http://www.toysrgus.com/images-toys/figuretoys/mtv7.html
http://www.toysrgus.com/images-toys/figuretoys/isp6.html
http://www.toysrgus.com/images-toys/figuretoys/vme.html
So what would these buckets be like? Here's some examples:
The Hoth bucket...contains primarily white/grey/tan bricks to make a few
small vehicles like those above...maybe the rebel turret from the
movie...plus there should be several snow troopers and rebel troopers.
The Endor bucket...contains primarily green/brown/grey bricks and
instructions to make an ewok treehouse, ewok catapult (not sure how one
would model this), ewok glider, an AT-ST (just as pathetically modelled as
their stand alone set) and a basic bunker for the rebels to blow up. Comes
with a few ewoks, few stormtroopers, AT-ST pilot and maybe some rebel commandos.
The Death Star bucket...contains primarily black/grey pieces. Instructions
to build trash compactor, prison block, etc...
Now along with the buckets, you include some pictures of some much larger
things kids could make by buying _multiple_ buckets...for example, in the
hoth bucket is a little booklet that shows you can build an ion cannon with
2 buckets, and pretty nice rebel base with 4 buckets, etc, etc.
Comments?
-Owen Graupman
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| (...) commandos. (...) I for one, would love to see buckets will just such a scheme. I don't think they should have minifigs though, without minifigs you can lure the train guys in with the fact that they would make great terrain buckets. All of (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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