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Subject: 
Re: Newest UCS set...
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:13:59 GMT
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Rent?  Phah!  Mortage?  Phah!

I'll live in the box and eat the plastic bags.  Saw this and first thought was:

'Is there any way I could earn a few hundred bucks above my salary to
justify the purchase?'

I totally agree....for the parts alone it's literally a
collection-maker...even just for the plates alone.

Maybe it's time to try and convince Mom that a revisit to early childhood
Christmases is in order.

I'm,dreaming of a light-gray Christmas.....

-G



In lugnet.starwars, Jon Palmer writes:
> Ok this is just so damn cool.  Yes I know many will think this is way too
> expensive but it looks like it literally contains a collection's worth of
> gray.  IMO gray is the foundation color for sooooooo many MOCs covering just
> about every theme I can think of.  I'm freaking out right now.  This is just
> nuts.
> 
> I'm dying to know what the super structure inside it looks like.  More gray?
> Black?  Rainbow of colors?
> 
> "the vessel includes a mini-model of the Tantive IV, Princess Leia's Rebel
> blockade runner seen at the start of A New Hope. The blockade runner, only
> available with the Star Destroyer, is the first of an upcoming collection of
> similar-sized mini-vehicles."
> 
> WOW.
> 
> What an amazingly cool idea.  It will be fun comparing these with different
> AFOL's microfig SW ships.
> 
> Man I am such a pathetic consumer right now.  LEGO, you have to stop.  I
> have rent to pay.  ;-)
> 
> -Jon
> --
> | The Shipyard - http://zemi.net/shipyard
> | My Lego Creations - http://zemi.net/lego
> 
> "Jeff Jardine" <jwjardin@diespam.mccain.ca> wrote in message
> news:H2w7yG.74E@lugnet.com...
> > I think I'm going to barf for joy:
> > 
> > http://www.starwars.com/collecting/news/2002/09/news20020923.html
> > 
> > 
> > It's a dream come true for me!
> > 
> > http://news.lugnet.com/starwars/?n=13680
> > 
> > Jeff J



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  Re: Newest UCS set...
 
Ok this is just so damn cool. Yes I know many will think this is way too expensive but it looks like it literally contains a collection's worth of gray. IMO gray is the foundation color for sooooooo many MOCs covering just about every theme I can (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.starwars)

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