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Re: Star Wars v. Harry Potter
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lugnet.starwars
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Sun, 25 Nov 2001 02:13:53 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, David Eaton writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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)
I know that lego has made more then sixty new molds for star wars
--Kevin W. §
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Nov-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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