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Re: S@H "Special Edition" Catalog
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:39:01 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Thomas Garrison writes:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Steve Bliss wrote:
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> > > 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. :)
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> > > 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.
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> 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.
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 the(1) aircraft used by the Red Baron...."
bottom: "construct a replica of ... the plane made famous by the Red Baron
in World War I..."
1 - sic... it was ONE OF the planes used by the Red Baron.
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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