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Re: R2D2 head (was Re: Sebulba)
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lugnet.starwars
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Date:
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Sat, 21 Aug 1999 02:41:37 GMT
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"Robert Munafo" <munafo@gcctechNO.SPAMcom> writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > [...] What bothered me more was the R2 heads. The design [leaves]
> > them with a big white collar.
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> I believe this is a result of the fact that the equipment at LEGO that
> applies patterns to pieces can only "paint" the pattern from one side
> (one "direction"). Since the R2D2 head is a "hemisphere", the pattern • had
> to be applied from the top, and that means you cannot apply paint all • the
> way down to the "equator" of the hemisphere without getting a lot of
distortion.
What about X-Treme Team figs which have printing on both sides? ...they
could have done the same for R2-D2... However, what I dislike most about
the R2 units is that they're so big. It's difficult to make a
prototypical R2 socket...
--Bram
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