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| | | (...) Pardon me... <anal mode on> Those six circles are actually engine vents of some sort. The whole escape pod issue (i.e. whether there is one or not, and if so, where is it) is a whole other shebang. </anal> (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Ben's LEGO Millennium Falcon back on-line —Craig Stevens
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| | | | Who says they are engine vents? I wouldn't trust Lucasfilm. Check out my site Geocities.com/SWFalcon30 for more of my opinions on this issue. You'll see that I have contructed an alternative interior network for my Millennium Falcon which really (...) (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Ben's LEGO Millennium Falcon back on-line —Gregory Cook
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| | | | | (...) I wasn't referring to anything official. My own personal opinion is that: A) they look just like the vents on top of the slopes at the fronts of the top 4 engines of the Corellian Corvette. Why would escape pods have little fan-blade-like (...) (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: Ben's LEGO Millennium Falcon back on-line —Craig Stevens
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| | | | | | Hi Gregory, The quote you used reffers to the docking rings on each side of the Millennium Falcon, not the six circular "vents." If you look closely, the circular protrusions are not covered in fan blade slits and look rather like solar panels (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Ben's LEGO Millennium Falcon back on-line —Gregory Cook
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| | | | | | (...) The quote I used, I used for this: "large under-hull box. He has them firing out through the 'floor' of that section. I strongly believe that ALL StarWars ships have very large engines, as a percentage of total ship size. Look at the Blockade (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Ben's LEGO Millennium Falcon back on-line —Geoffrey Hyde
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| | | | | | "Gregory Cook" <gfoxcook@houston.rr.com> wrote in message news:H65FG8.3G4@lugnet.com... (...) like (...) According to a publication called "The Official Star Wars Fact File", the two large circular openings at each side are escape pods. There are (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Ben's LEGO Millennium Falcon back on-line —Gregory Cook
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| | | | | | (...) Whether the 90 and 270 degree objects are escape pods, or as has been suggested elsewhere, merely cargo transfer docking mechanisms, doesn't matter too much to me. I merely wanted to disprove the "those aren't 6 engine-related vents, they're (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Ben's LEGO Millennium Falcon back on-line —Craig Stevens
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| | | | | | This is fun! All of this discussion based on a single line from an email. The circle is now complete. We have the Robert Brown camp, the dissenting voice and now someone who has an official guide to Star Wars, as if that means anything. Even though (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Ben's LEGO Millennium Falcon back on-line —Gregory Cook
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| | | | (...) I wasn't referring to anything official. My own personal opinion is that: A) they look just like the vents on top of the slopes at the fronts of the top 4 engines of the Corellian Corvette. Why would escape pods have little fan-blade-like (...) (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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