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Re: Who made the Star Destroyer?
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lugnet.starwars
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Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:33:18 GMT
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I'd like to think that the Master Builders at LEGO were inspired by some of
the AFOL creations, most particularly Jeff Jardine's ISD Pursuer
(http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=23495) which preceded the
official set by several weeks and is a simmilar design... I hope we'll see
more thing like this in the future : )
-JSM
"klaupacius" <klaupacius@aol.com> wrote in message
news:H50oAx.I00@lugnet.com...
> So was this an in house Lego design or did they get outside help? It just
> seems to me that the Star Destroyer is built with a more AFOL technique • than
> even the Blockade Runner or UCS X-Wing (which cheat with printed patterns
> for detail when they really don't need to). Whoever designed the SD had a
> good grasp of greeblies. And the clever use of angled plates is just not
> typical of official Lego designs - actually it's a lot like how I build
> things. It's a high quality model, rather than a toy. It's so glaringly
> obvious looking through the Lego catalog that the SD is in a different
> class, regardless of its size.
>
> "K"
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| (...) I think a few weeks might be cutting it a bit fine to bring a set to market! I think the main inspiration is seeing that their customers are willing to put some huge models together. I'm sure the Master Builders at Lego love doing this sort of (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| So was this an in house Lego design or did they get outside help? It just seems to me that the Star Destroyer is built with a more AFOL technique than even the Blockade Runner or UCS X-Wing (which cheat with printed patterns for detail when they (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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