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Re: Slave-I factoids!
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:34:53 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
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> In lugnet.starwars, David Simmons wrote:
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> > > 6. HAN LOOKS REALLY FUNNY. My only gripe is the age-old whining
> > > about how the 1x2x5 black "carbonite" brick with silver imprinting
> > > should have been a dedicated piece with molding, like the
> > > sarcophogi in the Adventurers sets, instead of this comic relief of
> > > a piece. Oh, well.
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> > This is interesting. Since the piece is painted and not a sticker,
> > that would limit its usage just as much if it were a specially molded
> > piece. Additionally, a 1x2x5 brick is not proportionally correct.
> > It should be a little wider.My bet is TLG didn't want to expend the
> > money for a new mold to keep costs down. Oh well.
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> The choice of a 1x2x5 for the Carbonite Han affects the entire model.
> In the LEGO model, the regular 'entrance ramp' for Slave-1 is designed
> to accept the carbonite block. I believe this ends up being more like
> a locker in the model.
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> Anyway, if they had made a bigger Han, the whole ship would have been
> bigger. Not that that is necessarily a Bad Thing, but using the 1x2x5
> wasn't just a matter of saving money on one element, but a choice that
> affected the entire kit.
I'm going to don my asbestos armor here and say that I *like* the way
they did Han in carbonite. It feels very... lego-correct, whereas a
complicated molded piece would be... clunky. I dunno. I still haven't
seen the set (augh!) so I'll shut up now...
--
Ben Olmstead/BEM
<bem@mad.scientist.com>
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| (...) <Snipped muchly> I don't precisely like it as is, but I'm fairly certain I would get positively *sick* of it the other way (as a molded sarcaphogus type piece). I mean, as is, I can at least us it as a brick - the other way, it's never going (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Slave-I factoids!
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| (...) The choice of a 1x2x5 for the Carbonite Han affects the entire model. In the LEGO model, the regular 'entrance ramp' for Slave-1 is designed to accept the carbonite block. I believe this ends up being more like a locker in the model. Anyway, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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