To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.starwarsOpen lugnet.starwars in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Star Wars / 13059
13058  |  13060
Subject: 
Re: S@H "Special Edition" Catalog
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:26:36 GMT
Viewed: 
1809 times
  
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Steve Bliss wrote:

> > Wow!  I got home last night, and found this beautiful, oversized
> > mini-catalog waiting for me.  The front cover said, (quoting from memory)
> > "2002 Special Edition".  I don't usually get excited about the S@H catalogs
> > (any more), but this is way cool!  And it seems to be aimed at the AFOL
> > market -- it was addressed to me, not the kids. :)

> > The layouts are all oversized, so you can see the details much better.  I
> > don't think they shot any new photos for this book, and probably didn't
> > write any new copy.

Was the description of the Red Baron new?  That was what really stood out
to me---it was described as being from WWI.  None of this "famous plane of
the early part of the 20th century" nonsense we saw with the Sopwith
Camel---TLC actually admitted that it made a model based on a warplane.

--
TWS Garrison
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~tgarriso/



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: S@H "Special Edition" Catalog
 
(...) Um, there is a lot of text but they have it both ways (yes, I got one of these in the mail today, unf. my mailperson mangled it a bit)... top: "the Fokker Dr 1 was one of the most famous planes of the early 20th century, known primarily as (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.starwars)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: S@H "Special Edition" Catalog
 
Argh! I *swear* I typed "lugnet.starwars", not "lugnet.space". Oh, well. Consider it cross-posted. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)

24 Messages in This Thread:














Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR