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(...) Excellent! He looks odd in the orthographic LDraw version, but definitely "comes to life" in the photos! :) I especially like the way you used plates fore and aft of his legs to make them look shorter. Is he tilted back a bit because he's 2x4 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) The 2x4 Gonk is a bit front heavy hence the tilt. I decided to make a 2x3 version. I was considering it anyway but your suggestion pushed me to it. I do like it just as well if not better. I used a different color scheme and took some pictures (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) ??? (...) How about Qui-Gonk Jinn :) Ryan "Build or build not. There is no try." - Lego Master Yoda (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I like it although I think the new Gonk is going to be Gonk I have decided I like him better. The old Gonk (the dkGray one) I think will be either Melted down or sent to the Spice Mines of Kessel. :) Eric (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) What? No smashing into who knows what? I though that would be the _most likely_ fate of a lego droid... James (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Good One! I think that might be best. The reclemation process would be much easier. Plus I would be able to reuse the pieces that way!!! :) Eric (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I love it! I don't think he needs a different name, though, does he? -- Your 2x3 Gonk is much closer to the "real" Gonk than your 2x4 Gonk is? According to the book droids book[1], Gonk's legs are equidistant from his front & back. (But the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Love the Gonk. Thanks for the directions. I always enjoyed making robots when I was a kid. If a part couldn't be used for anything else (airplane fin, jetski handlebars, metal detector) it could always be used in a robot. (...) elegant (...) to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Hey, do we have that message archived from our own LUGNETter who has (and may be) the original story of the "Gonk" name? If it's any consolation, it now appears to have official Lucasfilm sanction: The recent Star Wars toys have such a droid (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Markus, Thanks a lot. Nothing like an 8 month old thread resurfacing :-). I assume you found one of my Gonk pages that liked back to my anouncement about him and then you posted. For those of you that might be interested the GeoCities Page (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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As far as I know, Gonk's name came from the RASSM (rec.arts.scifi.starwars.misc) ng. For those of you who aren't RASSM'ers (AKA rats, depending on personal preference), you're missing out on a lot of (sometimes) interesting (sometimes) wacky (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) (URL) If it's any consolation, it now appears to (...) Awright!!! --Todd (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Thanks for the inspiration, I hadn't thought about the jetski handlebar piece. I'm now building 'bots with serious eyebrow problems. My favorite: take the Gasgano 'fig. Remove the head. Stick on a handlebar-on-a-clip. Turn two of the arms (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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<Star Wars Freak hat> It's called "Gonk" because that's a sort of onomatopoetic version of the noise that one of these power droids makes whilst sitting in the jawa's landcrawler in Episode IV. -Cheese </Star Wars Freak hat> (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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Eric, Whoop, I paid no attention to how old the thread was. I just saw the page that said, "Tell me how you like it on Lugnet" and I did. But I'm glad I could resurrect it. (...) Markus (...) if (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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