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Subject: 
Chrome Queen's ship (was Re: 15 lbs and counting)
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Date: 
Wed, 26 May 1999 03:58:28 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Ben Fleskes writes:

ps I could see Lego coming out with a Naboo Queen's ship, built entirely with
chromed sloped bricks.  Now that would be cool.  Then again, if they didn't • use
chrome on the Naboo Fighter, they probably wouldn't on the larger ship, but • one
can only hope that Lucas would simply demand it so and it would happen.

Well, the ~$90 playset of the Queen's Ship by Kenner is finished in a dull
gray/silver, nowhere near the siny chrome/silver it should be.  I would imagine
any Queen's Ship from Lego would be the same[1]... unless they (correctly) saw
all those silver bricks as a selling point.  I mean, they can't have been
asleep for the whole sliver-brick-trading thing that went on when they released
the anniversary buckets.

eric

[1] Err, that is to say, would be the nearest equivalent to Chrome, in this
case, light gray like the front of the Naboo Fighter.



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  Re: Chrome Queen's ship (was Re: 15 lbs and counting)
 
(...) I must have missed the whole silver brick trading thing. Was there really a big noise about the silver bricks? The train people are always carrying on about how cool it would be to make a chrome train. Anyway, I was just curious about the (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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  15 lbs and counting
 
Weighed my Millennium Falcon last night and It's up to 15 pounds. Refining the lower surface demanded plenty of plates so the wieght creeped up a little bit. Simply flipping it over is a bit of a chore now. But all the details are coming together. (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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