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Re: Picture of Falcon?
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 22 Oct 1999 21:12:07 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Geoff Hardy writes:
> That looks either:
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> a) like a fan design, or
> b) an early mockup
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> that does NOT look like a final TLG product to me.
Nor to me. At the very least, I would expect a final version to have a
printed piece for the cockpit.
> I have faith in them and so should you. Shame on you! :-)
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> However, I have NO illusions about the Falcon myself. I expect it to be out
> of scale and under-sized. NOT because I think TLG doesn't know what they are
> doing, but because TLG knows what the market can handle. I'm sorry, but
> there are not enough of us purist/enthusiasts/whatever to support or justify
> the price of a full-scale Falcon the way WE would like to see it done. What
> parent in their right mind is going to spend more than 100 bucks on it? Not
> many, and TLG will want to make this kit accessible to most children who got
> all the other SW Lego sets.
I bet there's more parents willing to spend more than $100 on a MF model for
their kids (and more kids clamoring for one!) than for a pirate ship, or a big
castle. Or a train, or a big spaceship, or... oh wait, it is a big spaceship
:)
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) juniorized) and a not so great millenium falcon....I'd probably choose the monorail. Course, that's just cause I'm irked I missed the Unitron one, stupid dark age. Oh well. Kya (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| That looks either: a) like a fan design, or b) an early mockup that does NOT look like a final TLG product to me. I have faith in them and so should you. Shame on you! :-) However, I have NO illusions about the Falcon myself. I expect it to be out (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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