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Subject: 
Re: size of Lego MF revisited
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lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Fri, 14 May 1999 13:02:00 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Ben Fleskes writes:
> 
> > [2] Common Star Wars folklore includes the story of how George Lucas was not
> > happy with the initial concepts of the Millennium Falcon as they looked to
> > Space 1999ish.  He finally held up the hamburger he was eating and told his
> > model builders to build a model that looked like it.  Hence the Flying
> > Hamburger/Saucer concept.
> 
> That's actually true- I've seen the original models.  It blew.  The concept
> modeler for A New Hope really left something to be desired... although his • Star
> Destroyer was interesting.


IIRC, the original Millennium Falcon model eventually mutated into the Rebel
Blockade Runner (aka Tantive IV, aka Corellian Corvette).

Chad



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  Re: size of Lego MF revisited
 
(...) That's actually true- I've seen the original models. It blew. The concept modeler for A New Hope really left something to be desired... although his Star Destroyer was interesting. At any rate, there are lots of food references- for example, (...) (27 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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