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Re: Droopy Star Destroyer
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:15:29 GMT
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I got one for Christmas too! I noticed that it was buckling after just a
few weeks of being together. I think I took it apart after a month to save
the bricks.
Dave
"Kelly McKiernan" <kelly@anagrafyxx.com> wrote in message
news:HKAB8C.HIz@lugnet.com...
> When the Star Destroyer came out last year, I got one for Christmas and of
> course put it together right away. It had a place of honor on my desk. • Lately,
> though, I've noticed the nose drooping. So I took the bridge assembly off • and
> things started shattering, which had never happened before. So I • disassembled
> it, and found some pieces had been bent, most noticeably the long Technic • beams:
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<<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Binkmeister/Destroyer/bent_sd_beam.jpg>>
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> A few more pictures here:
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=54869>
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> Several were bowed up, some down, depending on their orientation to the • stress
> points in the structure. I'd never seen a LEGO model that bent over time • under
> its own weight before.
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> Anyone else have anything like this happen? I find it unusual that a model • would
> have so much stress on it that the pieces would deform. BTW, the model • wasn't
> moved much after it was put together, or subjected to any other kinds of • unusual
> environment... it has always been in the same place in a controlled • environment.
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> I'll probably put it together again at a later point, if the pieces aren't • too
> whacked, In the meantime I'm scavenging parts for a Battlestar Galactica • moc
> (trying to use just the SD pieces).
>
> Kelly (Binkmeister)
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