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Re: Walking Fighter Droid (was: Just got back from TRU . . .)
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Tue, 4 May 1999 19:22:59 GMT
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Probably because that's the closest they could get to the color they were in
the movie.  Looking at the trailers, many of the larger and/or battle droids
appear to be a "rusty brown" color.  The STABs are brown also and they were
a similar color to the droid fighters.  Of course, I'm just going by the
trailer and http://www.starwars.com pictures and what it looks like on my
monitor.  You could be right that gray/dark gray would have been a better
color.

Mike


Steve Bliss wrote in message <372f4638.4109093@lugnet.com>...
BTW, why did TLG choose *brown* for the color of this set?  Just because
we've all been clamoring for brown pieces?  Some of the color choices on
the SW sets just confuse me.

Steve



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