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Subject: 
Build your own R2!
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Date: 
Wed, 26 May 1999 21:35:59 GMT
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I'm still wow'd by the fact no one is talking about this... anyone have more
info?


Among the still-to-be-seen items: the Furby Yoda, which combines last year's
hottest toy with this year's hottest entertainment property, and Lego
Mindstorms' Droid Developer Kit, described as a build-it-yourself R2D2 kit.

(I'm curious about the mindstorms, not the furby...)


http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/en/story.html?s=v/nm/19990526/en/film-star
warspromos_1.html


Sean



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  RE: Build your own R2!
 
Hi, What you left off was: Of the latter, (droid dev. kit) especially, analyst Leibowitz is already predicting holiday shortages a full half-year in advance. M -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: Build your own R2!
 
(...) There's been information and discussion on this set. There's a brief blurb at (URL). Also search for online news articles. General consensus (around here) was "Why'd they make his head out of big, printed pieces?" and "Why'd they dumb down the (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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