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Re: Close-ups on rebelscum.com
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Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:57:12 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Kingsley writes:

The front of the canopy is extremely close to the one on
my B-Wing but otherwise I think I will be sticking with my version.

http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/starwars/vehicles/index.htm

Yours is definitely superior in terms of resembling the movies, but I'm sure
sacrifices have to be made by TLG in terms of keeping piece count low,
instructions not-too-complex, and so on.

It does look like we might get some new tiles and guns with the B-Wing as • well.
Still looks like a good set for parts like the other SW sets so I will
defenitly be getting some.  Especially for that pilot with the cool helmet!!!

Yeah, he does seem to be an accurate B-Wing Pilot.  That's something I had
written off a while ago... I had assumed TLG would use the same pilot 'fig and
helmet for all the Rebel Ships.  But, I guess if they have a 5 year contract,
and spread them out, they can make new 'figs for all of them.  Of course, I'm
sure they con only afford so many new 'figs per year... so we might be seeing
the B-Wing Pilot instead of, say, the much-lusted-after Stormtrooper.

One cool thing about having SW as a theme is that we can actually build
something before TLG and then compare it instead of the other way around.

True enough.  Of course, I'm willing to bet that the (best of the) homegrown
designs will outclass TLG's... they always seem to in all the other categories.

eric



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Close-ups on rebelscum.com
 
(...) Even though it's TLG's official ones that win the 'best *original* creations' at independant building contests! ;P DaveE (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: Close-ups on rebelscum.com
 
(...) True enough although I think a little more complexity would not hurt. I mean my 5 year old nephiew can put together the 8 - 10 models fairly easily. I think TLG need to up their standards a bit. (...) NNOOOOOoooooo!!! Must Have Stormtrooper... (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: Close-ups on rebelscum.com
 
(...) contract, Uh, that should be 9 years. TLG and Lucas had an agreement through all of the new movies, so if the release dates are correct, it would be a 9 year contract. But if they want to release E2 and E3 within the next 4 years that would be (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Close-ups on rebelscum.com
 
(...) B-wing. (...) Thanks alot for this. The pilot looks extremely cool although I don't know about the B-Wing. To me the engines are to blocky and the lower wing should be longer and thicker. The front of the canopy is extremely close to the one (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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