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Re: About Blasters
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:17:02 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> 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.
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.
But I don't buy that as a viable reason why they aren't making them. It would
be easy enough for them to play up the features that look sci-fi and play down
the features that look like real guns. And they already have incredibly
modern-looking weapons in the Wild West sets.
I think they're just trying to keep the number of new molds per year down.
We'll get them eventually, and then (I promise) they'll be
backwards-compatable. Ah, the beauty of LEGO.
eric
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 | | Re: About Blasters
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| Hmm... this is interesting actually. I was wondering about this myself, and it did not make any sense to me until you reminded me that they had produced guns for the Wild West and Adventurers series. This made me think about the Batman Animated (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | About Blasters
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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