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Re: What is pictured in the inset by the MF on page 8?
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Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:34:18 GMT
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Selçuk <teyyareci> <sgore@superonline.^SayNoToSpam^com>
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Tony Sharpe <shart@orca.esd114.wednet.edu> wrote in message >
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/2000/c00am-100dpi/c00am-08.html
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> > Mike
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> The inset looks more like a drawing than a photo and the color also looks
> wrong on the MF. The shape of the attached ship is what made me think it • was
> the Slave 1. Also if it was an escape pod that was extra wouldn't lego add • it
> to the picture of the set, like they did with the extra stuff with the • X-wing
> set?
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> Tony
Yes it is a drawing inset, a classic way that used by TLG in the catalogs to
underline the functioning parts of the sets. But what is the functioning
part of Falcon then?
I guess this inset shows release of cockpit as an escape pod. I know
Millnium Falcon doesn't have a feature like this, but I know that the Bongo
(Gungan sub)doesn't have a detachable front cockpit as well..:-)
Selçuk
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: What is pictured in the inset by the MF on page 8?
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| No, I think I figured it out. It is a hand. Ever see the CD Lego catalog in the Turbo Command set. This hand comes out and does the stuff to the models to show what it does. I think this hand had some kind of Borg looking contraption on it. The pic (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: What is pictured in the inset by the MF on page 8?
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| (...) I think so, too. Notice the tan 3x3 round plates on the right hand side of the MF. These rounded plates ensure that something, e.g. an escape pod, can easily be inserted. The Sith Infiltrator has the same construction in the rear end to make (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: What is pictured in the inset by the MF on page 8?
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| (...) there (...) The inset looks more like a drawing than a photo and the color also looks wrong on the MF. The shape of the attached ship is what made me think it was the Slave 1. Also if it was an escape pod that was extra wouldn't lego add it to (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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