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Re: Question about set 7143 Jedi Starfighter.
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Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:30:37 GMT
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Um, I dont recall ANY scene showing the Jedi Starfighter where it shows the
droid being inserted into the craft. Nearly every scene shows it in space,
and the scenes showing it landed, it does not have enough ground clearance
for the R4 unit to come out from the bottom. During the guided missile
chase, for one quick turn the underside of the ship is shown, and about
where the R4's location is shows a SQUARE panel (access for repairs to the
droid?), but only on the one side. If the round plate on the LEGO model does
represent another droid socket, then there should have been a second square
panel on the underside matching that location. I feel it is indeed a
pre-Imperial form of Insignia.
I think you might have been thinking of the opening scene showing the Naboo
Royal Ship with Naboo Fighters escorts landing. In that scene it clearly
shows an R2 unit dropping out of one of the Naboo Fighters from the bottom.
Another odd thing - all the big Naboo ships have landing legs, but the
fighters hover in place instead (and therefore uses a lot of energy powering
the repulsor plates) instead of using more cost effective landing struts.
In lugnet.starwars, Tim Rice writes:
> I have the ATOC viz dictionary and it clearly states that the droid is
> part of the ship, intigrated into its systems. many other sources (cross
> sections book I think) say this as well.
>
> May the Brick be with you!
> * Tim *
> P.s. sorry if I broke the thread, my mail service is screwed up and makes
> a new thread every time I reply to one! Thanx for putting up with me!
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 04:40:49 GMT "Geoffrey Hyde"
> <ghyde@dodo.com.au> writes:
> >
> > "Jude Beaudin" <shiningblade@rogers.com> wrote in message
> > news:GzE0Lq.GLy@lugnet.com...
> >
> > > To be fair to LEGO, the astromech does not have a body but is • actually
> > > hardwired into the starfighter.
> > > http://www.starwars.com/databank/starship/delta7/index.html
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > I am glad you like it for what it is. I agree even though the body
> > does
> > not
> > > need to be in the set it would have added a lot to the playabilty
> >
> > Something is seriously wrong then. When I went to the movie release
> > of
> > AOTC, the astromech droid plainly was inserted into the starfighter
> > from the
> > bottom. It was also plain to see that the other side could also
> > have fitted
> > an astromech droid into it. That is what the round 2x2 plate on the
> > other
> > side is supposed to represent - an empty space for an astromech
> > unit.
> >
> > If anybody from the starwars site is actually looking at this post,
> > it'd be
> > interesting to see if they could comment on it.
> >
> > Maybe they had on hand special releases of the movie that had scenes
> > that
> > would get cut from later production runs, although I have no idea
> > why.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers ...
> >
> > Geoffrey Hyde
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| I have the ATOC viz dictionary and it clearly states that the droid is part of the ship, intigrated into its systems. many other sources (cross sections book I think) say this as well. May the Brick be with you! * Tim * P.s. sorry if I broke the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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