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    LIC SW info —Phillip Greco
   I swung by the LIC in Orlando on one of my road trips this season. Those who've been there know that you'll find the ratio of employees who love the product to those who just took the job is about 1:10. I knew I was talking to that one when he was (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: LIC SW info —Tom McDonald
   (...) Somehow I get the feeling certain figures won't be made, like Leia with her coiled braids, or Jawas. I hope I'm wrong, but I wonder if they're counting on the new stuff sort of overwhelming a lot of the old stuff so that they don't have to (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: LIC SW info —Ben Fleskes
   If they can come out with three 'Lukes' in the first five sets, I'd sure hope they do a full lineup of minifigs. Including Jawas, sand people, hammerhead, normal storm troopers and all the rest. I'm expecting this lego line to have the most minifigs (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: LIC SW info —Mike Stanley
     (...) I want one of those blue guys with the long noses that played in that band in that bar on that desert planet. :) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —Terry Keller
     (...) Nah, how 'bout the three babes singing in Jabba's residence? :-) -- Terry K -- Somehow, I doubt Lego will do those. (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —Justin Kopp
       (...) I would most like to see Yoda, Chewbacca, and the sand people, not becasue they are my favourite characters, but because an accurate representation would require some short and tall mini figs.. -Justin (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.starwars)
     
          Re: LIC SW info —Jeff Johnston
      (...) Well...sand people are close enough to human height that they could use regular minifigs. I'm personally wondering if a Chewbacca minifig would use something similar to the 'ghost piece' for his fur - I kinda hope not. Yoda might not be done (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
     
          Re: LIC SW info —Jim Baker
      Also sprach Jeff Johnston: : Yoda might not be done as a minifig id he's too small...he might be a : single-piece castng like the scorpions or snakes...I hope not... I've thought that they could do Yoda and Jawas just by leaving the legs off a fig (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —Tom McDonald
      (...) Maybe his nose will have true socket on the end... :) Actually both bands would be cool, especially if they included their instruments. (...) "Selective compression" would most certainly take over there... ;-) Now Jabba himself would be *very* (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —Greg Bevington
     (...) hope (...) hammerhead, (...) have (...) To be exact, that "blue guy was Max Rebo" (...) I wouldn't be surprised by a Jabbas palace set including: A Rancor pit, Jabba & Salicious crumb, Oola (the green dancing girl), the max rebo band (Sy (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —Tom McDonald
      (...) Yep, those would be cool. Solo in carbonite would be reminiscent of the Adventurer's mummy coffin. Oola would be cool, but look for that "selective compression" to take over again... :) Somehow I don't think we'll see Salacious as he's too (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —Tim McSweeney
     (...) max (...) Not wanting to sound too male but what are the odds we get a "Leia in Gold Bikini" Minifig? a million to one? a billion(1) to one? Cheers Tim (1) Thats a _british_ billion for those of you who read the robotics group :) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: LIC SW info —Lee Jorgensen
     3 minifigs ... and R2D2 ... (...) -- Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc. mailto://jorgensen@bankoe.moc <-- reverse moc mailto://ljorgensen@...uswest.ten <-- reverse ten (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —Alan Shutko
     (...) I know. The X-wing set gives you so much more than like-priced action figure sets. (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —Ben Fleskes
       You bet, Maybe I misread the price tag, but it looked like the traditional x- wing fighter was priced at $49.99 at TRU the other day. Wow, what a rip off. The Lego X-wing is way better. (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —Todd Lehman
     (...) Speaking of Artoo, what's up with that extra ring of white between his hemispherical head and his cylindrical body...? There shouldn't be more than 1/2 mm. of vertical whitespace there, and they've got at least 5 mm. 100 x :-( If there is a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —Scott Symer
     (...) I'd noticed that earlier - it even looks like his* head is one piece, correctly curved & proportioned & everything, which they could have just gone right on painting down to the edge rather than truncating everything to the top half as they (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —Steve Bliss
      (...) Maybe it's an artifact of the screen-printing process. From your description (I haven't look at the catalog scans lately), it sounds like TLG decorated R2's head by holding the 'head' sideways and applying the design: __ Screen / | Print -> | (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
     
          Re: LIC SW info —Scott Symer
      (...) It sounds like a good guess to me. Given the limitations you point out though, I would have probably chosen to get at least the front of the head right, and maybe made the part in gray rather than white to make up for the back being blank & to (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
     
          Re: LIC SW info —Steve Bliss
      (...) Too bad I'm wrong. Well, I *hope* I'm wrong. They have to be able to get R2's face on straight! The head piece has cutouts in the bottom for studs, so it can't rotate. That means if they can't screen print in the correct location, R2 will be (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
     
          Re: LIC SW info —Tim McSweeney
      (...) the (...) I just realized the answer to this dilemma is staring me in the face. On top of my computer sits sets no 6709, an Indian on a horse with a headdress(1) The headdress is quite a complicated shape (lots of curvy feathers) but it has (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —Josh Spaulding
       (...) well, he does have a pretty phallic device for interfacing with other computers. I'd say that makes him about as male as a robot is likely to get. C3PO's gender, on the other hand, is still up for debate. -Josh (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
     
          Re: LIC SW info —Steve Bliss
      (...) Plus, he has that '3rd locomotion ...erm... thingy', so if anything, he's over-endowed. Steve (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —John VanZwieten
       Scott Symer wrote in message ... (...) to (...) My theory is that because the verticle cylinder has cuttouts for studs, if they printed on the cylinder, sections would be missing where the cuttouts occur. This might remove an important sensor, (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: LIC SW info —Jeff Johnston
     (...) I might be misremembering, but isn't he referred to as male in the movies? I can't recall anything specific excep Luke calling R2 'little guy'...wait. C3P0, when they're offloading a shot-up R2 from the X-wing: 'You /must/ save him. If any of (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: LIC SW info —Terry Keller
   (...) Sounds more like a scene from the referenced "Clone Wars". :-) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.starwars)
 

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