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Re: Star Wars v. Harry Potter
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:25:20 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, John R. Beck writes:
> Is it just my imagination or has Lego done a better job developing their
> potter line than their star wars line? I just seems the pieces are cooler.
My impression was exactly the opposite. SW line (ESPECIALLY the 1999 sets)
were amazingly done. There was little if any juniorization, and the sets
were *much* more accurate than I would have expected. Granted it's since
gone downhill a little.
The new pieces for Star Wars are just so much more generally useful, IMHO.
Although perhaps they weren't specifically Star Wars:
- Laser cannons (X-wing, Snowspeeder, etc)
- Lightsaber handles (did the blades also come out that year?)
- Large wings
- Click hinge cockpits
- Smoke-grey transparent color
- Rounded canopies (Naboo fighter)
- Click hinges
- Cool decorative instrument panels (tiles mostly)
- Cloaks (rather than capes)
- Cloak hoods
- EXCELLENT peasant/plainclothes torso's & some heads
- Grey hair
- Tan hair
- 1/4 8x8x6 round thinwalls (released later, granted)
- The return of 8x8 grey radar dishes! (it has to be said)
- LOTS of hard-to-find and new colored elements (dk grey extreme slopes &
corners, white inverse 2x2 corner slopes, brown plates & bricks & slopes,
tan plates & bricks, etc, etc, etc)
Harry Potter:
- Neat looking castle doors
- Keys
- Spiral staircase
- Neat old-wall-with-ivy printed bricks
- Frogs (did they exist before in scala/belville?)
- Owls
- Rats
- Swammi hat (purple)
- grey hair/beard
- Some other cool colored items...
> What got me thinking was the difference between Chewbacca and that big brown
> dude with the huge black hair in the potter set. You'd think that Chewie
> would be that big...and what's with the ewoks looking like the same size as
> a regular lego minifig? Have I got a genuine beef here? Or has this debate
> been already talked through...
Well... yeah insofar as people ultimately wanted chewie to be taller and
ewoks to be shorter than they WILL be (they're not the same size as
minifigs). And yes, Hagrid is nice and taller just as expected... but all in
all, the initial Star Wars release blew me away, even with just the 5
"classic" sets. HP just doesn't add up. It's useful for some of the cool
colors and trinket-type items here and there, but the sets overall really
aren't that useful. At least, I don't think. And the set design (excepting
maybe Hagrid's Hut) is really a lot poorer than the initial SW sets.
Admittedly SW has gone downhill, but it's still a quality line...
DaveE
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| I guess my only real beef was the Falcon. In my opinion it was absolutely horrible. The minifigs were great though. I theorized that since Potter can be considered an extension of Lego's castle themes maybe they had better in house production on it. (...) (23 years ago, 23-Nov-01, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: Star Wars v. Harry Potter
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| I think comparing the Star Wars LEGO Sets with the Harry Potter sets isn't really fair. The Star Wars sets have essentially all been vehicle sets, whereas with Potter, aside from the train, they are all playsets. Designing a LEGO playset and a LEGO (...) (23 years ago, 28-Nov-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Is it just my imagination or has Lego done a better job developing their potter line than their star wars line? I just seems the pieces are cooler. What got me thinking was the difference between Chewbacca and that big brown dude with the huge black (...) (23 years ago, 23-Nov-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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