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Re: Slave-I factoids!
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Date: 
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:51:59 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, James Brown writes:
In lugnet.starwars, Ben Olmstead writes:
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...

<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 to be
much more than a SPUD.

From looking at the parts inventory of this set, I'm going to want several of
them, possibly a dozen or two if I can get a decent clearance price, and wow,
would a SPUD frozen Solo get old fast.

IMHO, of course.

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
And also on the pro side:
having it be a brick will make it easier to make a carbon freezing chamber- it
will fit into a slot better. I'm playing with some ideas- Han goes down, turn
it around and up pops frozen Han. Any other ideas on how to do this?

Chris



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  Re: Slave-I factoids!
 
(...) This sounds similar to the Bespin Carbon Freezing Chamber playset from the Kenner Star Wars Micro Collection. You can see a picture of it here. (URL) lowering and turning a knob on top, you could "freeze" han and lift him up again. This was (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Slave-I factoids!
 
(...) <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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