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Re: Picture of Falcon?
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Date: 
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 21:17:40 GMT
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On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 19:51:09 GMT, "Huw Millington" <hmillington@cix.co.uk>
wrote:

Someone (Knight) from a SW site (theouterrim, I think) sent me this:

http://www2.pncl.co.uk/~huw/lego/temp/falcon.jpg

He says its a genuine picture obtained from LEGO of the final model and NOT
a mock-up.

If so, our worse fears have been realised...

Blech.  That's a truly awful design (for a production set).  I'd rather have a
Falcon-Jr.  None of the other SW sets have this poor a design.

I *hope* this was just a design/test model, and this approach was discarded.  If
that's the finished product, I probably won't be buying one.

Steve
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it keeps its brain."



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In lugnet.starwars, Steve Bliss writes: Does anyone remember last year when the first picture of the X - Wing came out? Everyone hated it and thought it was ugly, and when the official sets came out, it was totally redesigned. I really hope that (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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Someone (Knight) from a SW site (theouterrim, I think) sent me this: (URL) says its a genuine picture obtained from LEGO of the final model and NOT a mock-up. If so, our worse fears have been realised... Huw (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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