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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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Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:m366z73kzi.fsf@....uio.no... (...) Nice call! That's a pretty good guess. There could even be two escape pods. That would be better than having the cockpit as an escape pod. But (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I just took a little trip to Target and purchased a snowspeeder just to see if I would have any luck finding a lego 2000 catalogue. Alas I did! I took a real close look at the picture and it is some sort of vehicle with a 2x wide windshield (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I'm not hoping for much in the way of MF "internals". That would just add to the price of the set, without providing a visible value-add to the time-of-purchase experience. In other words, people can't be able to see the insides when they buy (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) There's going to have to be at least "some" interior detail. They'll probably show pictures on the box of the back end opened up to increase the "time of purchase" experience. Other wise, we'd have an MF that only one guy could fit in (in the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:6WswOCJp6IP1cmL...4ax.com... (...) pods. (...) to (...) set, (...) My, aren't we cynical? If they don't put at least a holochess table and a gunner's seat in there, they will have (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) From LC's point of view, the MF is probably like a gem which is supposed to "sell" more Star Wars sets. I mean, this is, like, everybody's favourite Star Wars vehicle. It's probably going to include Luke, Han Solo and Princess Leia (this is (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:m366z2w5yq.fsf@....uio.no... (...) A gem is what it should have been--and an expensive gem. The MF should be the SW answer to the Supercar, _the_ model for "wowing" people. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) And an R2 unit, no chewie, no lando, no 3po and if they want another minifig to flesh it out then another obi wan or something. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I agree with that. However, it looks like they chose the Tie Fighter and the X-Wing instead for the "wow" effect. (I'm refering to the "collector's items, new for 2000.) No wonder, really, as the Tie Fighter and the X-Wing are much more (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) It keeps me from being disappointed. ;) I'm sure there will be *some* interior to the MF. I expect the top opens up, in some way. (...) I expect a holo-chess table. I'll be surprised if there's a gunner's seat. (...) I'm hoping for C-3P0. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:MfgyOO73MuKqnmJ...4ax.com... (...) Get ready for more cynicism on this one. We haven't seen Chewie or 3PO in any logos or catalogs, and I'd be really suprised if we got 4 or even 3 unique (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I agree for the most part. I think Han w/vest and Leia are definites only because we have seen the figs and this is the only set that makes sense for them. That probably means another Luke (probably desert Luke). I would not be suprised if (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) and hands, painted face with maybe a pieces of brown female hair on top! And to make taller then the average minifig do the samething as I did with Vader! Put some brown 1x1 square plates on his feet! With Vader you use black 1x1 plates on the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) legs (...) to (...) How about a new Chewie helmet, black 'fig under a ghostlike cover that only covers the torso. I'm betting on something like this. Either that or a whole new head a la Jar-Jar. As for size- TLG (LC) (TLC) doesn't seem to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) And if they wanted to add another minifig then it would be an obi-wan kenobi. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) be (...) Actually I would doubt it. Only because Obi-Wan and Princess Leia were never actually on the Falcon together. Now that does not mean that LEGO could not make that mistake but I doubt Lucas Film would allow such a mistake. I am (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) My guess then would be for the han and leia we have already seen and then luke and r2.just to flesh out the sets. I havew a fieling that there won't be a chewie or a 3po. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Yep. Leia w/ hair buns could pretty much be in the MF, the Tantive IV/blockade runner, or a Death Star playset. (...) Because we need plenty of R2 units. God knows I don't have enough. Maybe I can give them to all my witches as lab (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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