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Re: Toyfare has new news
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Date: 
Sat, 3 May 2003 17:58:36 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Jeff McClain writes:
A Mon Calimari capital ship (Akabar's ship in previous email) would be a
travesty...grin.  Mon-cal ships are notoriously graceful and smooth and just
wouldn't fit very well with my classically minded idea of lego...grin.
Still, if they make a bunch of "specialty" pieces, then mabye, but that just
disgraces lego, I feel.

     Nonsense.  The bulbous shapes could quite easily be produced with
liberal applications of plates to build up the outer surface.  Regardless,
due to limited on-screen time largely involving very hectic space battle
sequences, the Mon Calamari ships aren't very recongnizable to casual fans
the way stuff like the ISD, SSD, Millennium Falcon, and maybe even (dare I
hope?) Slave I.



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(...) Recognizable? you mean like the RBR, which appears on screen for.. what, two minutes, and mainly from behind? When I heard they released the Tantive IV, i said "the what? where was that in the movies?" and then i saw the engine cluster and (...) (22 years ago, 7-May-03, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Toyfare has new news
 
(...) A Mon Calimari capital ship (Akabar's ship in previous email) would be a travesty...grin. Mon-cal ships are notoriously graceful and smooth and just wouldn't fit very well with my classically minded idea of lego...grin. Still, if they make a (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.starwars)

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