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Re: Darth maul minifig (some protected spoilers)
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lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:38:26 GMT
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We really need to see a good picture of Obi-wan from the Gungan Sub
set. Anyone have the set and a scanner??
Ryan
"Build or build not. There is no try." - Lego Master Yoda

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On 4/21/99, at 6:59 PM, Lorbaat wrote:

> In lugnet.starwars, Sean McInnis writes:
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> > What's with the Scooter any way. Is Darth Maul impaired?
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> No.  He does have a little Sith Speeder, though (which is on board his Sith
> Infiltrator), and I guess Lego wanted him to have it in the sets, too.  I
> wasn't surprised to see it in the Sith Infiltrator set, but it's appearance in
> the Lightsaber Duel set is weird... I wonder if they just wanted to pad out the
> pie size of the set a bit (after all, what else would that little doohickey
> that looks like a Vaporator be there for?).
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> Of course, what *really* surprised me was that
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> They chose to make the Lightsaber Duel set representative of the Duel between
> Qui-Gonn and Maul on Tatooine, instead of the three-way battle between Obi-Wan,
> Qui-Gonn, and Maul somewhere else.  I would think a small set with all three
> minifigs would be a much better seller than with just the two... as it stands,
> to get young Obi-Wan, you have to get the Gungan Sub set or (I think) the Mos
> Espa Podrace set, whereas Qui-Gonn is in the Duel, the Podrace, Naboo Swamp,
> and the Sub.  Of course...
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> Even Bigger SPOILER
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> If it is true that Qui-Gonn dies at the end of the Phantom Menace, TLG might
> just be packing him into as many sets as possible, since the sets from Eps II
> and III can't really have him in them.  Except maybe as a trans-blue minifig.
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> OH!  How cool would that be!  Trans-blue "Spirit of Dead Jedi X" minifigs!
> They could paint the details (face, clothes) on in white!
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> eric
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> PS Please, if you leave the Spoilers in, leave the space in, too.



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  Re: Darth maul minifig (some protected spoilers)
 
(...) No. He does have a little Sith Speeder, though (which is on board his Sith Infiltrator), and I guess Lego wanted him to have it in the sets, too. I wasn't surprised to see it in the Sith Infiltrator set, but it's appearance in the Lightsaber (...) (27 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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