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Re: New Star Wars Sets UCS Blockade Runner and Darth Maul
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lugnet.starwars
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Sun, 28 Oct 2001 23:25:53 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Kevin Powell writes:
> If anybody has the new Lego catalog for this Christmas they know that two
> new Star Wars Lego sets have been introduced. One seems to be a Master
> Builders type set, like the Statue of Liberty set. It is a bust of Darth
> Maul that appears to be life-size. It is $150. The other new set is an UCS
> Blockade Runner. Although it is not technically stated as an UCS set, it
> includes 1,748 pieces and costs $200. That in my mind classifies it as an
> UCS set. The Blockade Runner is over 28 inches long, and the Darth Maul set
> is over 17 inches tall. The Maul set includes 1,860 pieces. It has a very
> lego blocky look, but it's hard to make the head of Darth Maul look anything
> but cool. I hope these sets are a promise of what's to come in 2002 for the
> Star Wars line. Although they are expensive, the quality appears very high,
> aka "you get what you pay for." I think everyone will agree that lego has
> done a fine job yet again, of translating Star Wars into lego bricks. Enjoy!
Yep, this broke here about a month or so ago,
so the initial rush of discussion is long over.
FBTB (http://www.fbtb.net) has a partial list of
next year's sets as well (though no graphics),
as well as additional shots of both models, in the
news archives.
LFB
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