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Re: All Ep 2 sets (except for gunship) FOUND in Rome Georgia
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Date: 
Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:55:06 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Chris Giddens writes:
> With all the rumors going around about the sets being out, I took a quick
> peek in our Wally World today.  At first I didn't see anything new.  I did
> see some of the Jedi Starfighters finaly on a shelf.... and then BAM,
> theres's the new slave one... what's that wedged in there?... OOO Tusken
> Raiders... HEY!  There's the technic super battle droid and Jango *puts
> Jango back, keeps droid*.  And so on...

   How is that Super Battle Droid?  I haven't seen any yet.

> All the sets were there except for the Gunship (DANGIT!).  They weren't
> marked on the shelves and didn't register on the floor price scanners.  The
> cash registers scanned em fine.

   Note that the Gunship doesn't appear in the instruction booklet
   mini-catalogue at the end of the instructions either--it's probably
   a mid-year release.

> The sets are solid.  The Slave 1 is one of the best Star Wars sets to date,
> although I don't like the jack stone pieces and bionicle pieces used.  Sorry
> I don't have a camera handy to snap some pics.  Best piece is probably the
> printed tile in the vaporator on the Tusken set.  I'll be usin' that in my
> sick bay or enviromental systems in a starship.

   It's not a good pic, but:

   http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/7113tile.jpg

   And I agree, it's a magnificent tile.

   best

   LFB



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  Re: All Ep 2 sets (except for gunship) FOUND in Rome Georgia
 
"Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:GtKJ7u.IBK@lugnet.com... (...) That does look like a great tile. Looks nice and intricate. Seeing cool tiles/slopes from new sets is such a nice simple pleasure. -Jon -- | The Galactic (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: All Ep 2 sets (except for gunship) FOUND in Rome Georgia
 
(...) Haven't built it yet... I'll let ya know :-D (...) The instruction booklet for the Slave 1 does have it in the pictures along with the super battle droid, so I think it will be out soon. Even Technic Jango isn't pictured, but it's out. Lets (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: All Ep 2 sets (except for gunship) FOUND in Rome Georgia
 
(...) LFB -- The gunship is in the back of the Technic Jango Fett instruction book. It also seems to have shown up in sections of Georgia. I can't figure out why some sets are going out early and others aren't. -Jonathan (25 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.starwars)

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  All Ep 2 sets (except for gunship) FOUND in Rome Georgia
 
With all the rumors going around about the sets being out, I took a quick peek in our Wally World today. At first I didn't see anything new. I did see some of the Jedi Starfighters finaly on a shelf.... and then BAM, theres's the new slave one... (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.starwars)

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