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Subject: 
Re: Upcoming _Star Wars Releases
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lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:09:03 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Ryan Dennett writes:
> 
> > Personally I don't buy any of what you just said. There will be a Slave I
> > either this year or next year, and it will be called 'SLAVE I'
> > TLG has a contract w/Lucas and they abide by his decisions and
> > he'd never allow them to call Slave I a crappy name like Bounty Hunter
> > Ship.
> 
> Ever heard of "Darth Vader's Star Destroyer Playset"?  Kenner didn't want to
> call the playset for the ship "The Executor".
> 
> I don't know that they wouldn't call it Slave I, mind you, just that it is
> possible for them to change the name if they think it would sell better.
> After all, what's worse- calling the ship Slave I, or putting the little
> captive Han in it?
> 
> eric

They could call it "Boba Fett's Firespray", or just "Firespray".  That is the
class of ship it is afterall.

Jeff
"Girls really seem to like a guy in spandex."



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  Re: Upcoming _Star Wars Releases
 
(...) This would be possible. Did you look at the design of the sw boxes ? There are some lasers fireing but you never see where it comes from. Even the TIE/Y-wing set: the red laserbeams are not fired by th TIE. They build the models with laser (...) (27 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Upcoming _Star Wars Releases
 
(...) Ever heard of "Darth Vader's Star Destroyer Playset"? Kenner didn't want to call the playset for the ship "The Executor". I don't know that they wouldn't call it Slave I, mind you, just that it is possible for them to change the name if they (...) (27 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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