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About Blasters
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:54:35 GMT
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Iwas looking at the starwars.com pic of a blaster the other day and it
looks similar to some modern military machine guns (except for what it
fires of course). This may be why TLG is not making it. Also the small
blaster used by han etc looks similar to one of those pistols where you
move the whole top part of the gun to reset it or whatever.
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Jonathan Wilson
wilsonj@xoommail.com
http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: About Blasters
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| (...) Jonathan, I agree with you entirely as to why TLG (TLC?) has not created a good looking blaster. As I have stated before however they have some pretty modern looking guns/rifles in the Adventurers series and I think their stance on (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: About Blasters
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| (...) Uh... you mean an automatic pistol? Anyway, Han's gun was very consciously modeled on a German "Broomhandle" Mauser from the 40's. The Stormtroopers' rifles were designed to be evocative of (surprise suprise) Nazi Stormtrooper machine guns. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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