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Re: 2000 A-Wing comments
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:04:36 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, John VanZwieten writes:
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> > I disagree somewhat here. One of the major things that excited everyone • about
> > the x-wing, snowspeeder, and y-wing was how close they came to being to scale
> > w/ a minifig and with each other. The a-wing is a disappointment only • because
> > it's obviously too small.
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> Umm. Having had the opportunity to study the production model for the A-Wing
> on several occasions, both in person (at "The Art of Star Wars" exhibit in
> Yerba Buena Gardens, San Franscisco, and "Star Wars: the Magic of Myth" in the
> Smithsonian) and in photographs (various ILM books), I can guarantee you that
> if anything, the A-Wing is too *large*, not too small.
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> eric
Eric's right. If you look at any of Lucasfilm's material on ship sizes, such
as the BEHIND THE MAGIC CD-ROM, or any of the books, it is very clear that the
A-Wing is one of the smallest ships in the Rebel Fleet, similar in size to the
snowspeeder, or, about HALF the length of the X-Wing, and a THIRD the length of
the Y-Wing.
Kevin
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 | | Re: 2000 A-Wing comments
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| (...) scale (...) the (...) of (...) I'm going to amend my own message here, since I just bothered to get out the size comparison portion of the BTM Cd. It lists the lengths, in meters, of the ships as follows: SLAVE I - 21.5, Y-Wing - 16, X-Wing - (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Umm. Having had the opportunity to study the production model for the A-Wing on several occasions, both in person (at "The Art of Star Wars" exhibit in Yerba Buena Gardens, San Franscisco, and "Star Wars: the Magic of Myth" in the Smithsonian) (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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