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Re: Picture of Mos Espa Podrace box
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Date: 
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:37:07 GMT
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Is anyone else having trouble imagining where they put 894 pieces in
this set?  Based on this picture, I would have guessed 4?? pieces.

--
Thomas Main
main@appstate.edu

"Tom Stangl, VFAQman" wrote:
> 
> I could see myself buying the set.  Look at the color choices, the piece
> count, and it supposedly has 10-11 minifigs.
> 
> I'll be at TRU when they open at 12:01am May 3, and if they have ALL the
> Ep1 sets, I'll buy ALL of them.  Possibly 2nds of some.  It's going to blow
> my entire months budget until I can get some auctions going, but dammit,
> I'm not going to wait around for months before having the complete sets
> this time.
> 
> "Selçuk " wrote:
> > 
> > I was expecting something like this (knowing roughly, what a pod race is),
> > but sharing your opinion about "coolness". Maybe because we are not so
> > familiar with the newly introduced SW universe thingies. I feel that, for
> > example, R2D2 is as familiar as my washing machine and Millennium Falcon as
> > a Ford Escort..:-). They are somehow like things from our daily life.
> > 
> > As an another opinion, those newly introduced elements are not cool as the
> > classic ones. I don't want to conclude about them before seeing the movies.
> > Time will tell, as a conclusion.
> > 
> > Selçuk
> > 
> > William Ng wrote in message <3716E9BF.B9847759@hotmail.com>...
> > > thats the most expensive set, but doesn't look that cool, does it?? i
> > > was expecting some big ship or even a base or something....
> > > 
> > > William Ng
> > > 
> > > Ben Rogers wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > There's now a picture of the 7171 Mos Espa Podrace Box at • www.yakface.com,
> > > > 
> > > >      http://www.yakface.com/imagebin/podlego.jpg
> > > > 
> > > > Ben
> > > > http://www.bdr.org/lego/sw/
> 
> --
> Tom Stangl
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  Re: Picture of Mos Espa Podrace box
 
(...) Maybe they're mostly 1x1 plates... But seriously, to me it seems like there'd be tons of little pieces, much more than a larger set usually has. I guess this seems reasonable to me if I take into account how the pods are basically constructed. (...) (27 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Picture of Mos Espa Podrace box
 
I could see myself buying the set. Look at the color choices, the piece count, and it supposedly has 10-11 minifigs. I'll be at TRU when they open at 12:01am May 3, and if they have ALL the Ep1 sets, I'll buy ALL of them. Possibly 2nds of some. It's (...) (27 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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