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Re: Word From Mr. Fujita
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Wed, 2 Feb 2000 18:13:45 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Jeremy Crawford writes:
> Hay All!
>
> Just got an email back from Mr. Fujita, the man who made the original Star Wars
> Trilogy from Legos. Here is the email he sent me.
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> Mr. Jeremy Crawford,
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> Thank you for your E-mail.
> I'm going to answer for your questions.
>
> > 1. How long did it take you from start to finish to
> > build and photograph the movies?
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> For three years I spared time after work to do it.
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> > 2. How many LEGO pieces did you have in this project?
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> During that time I bought LEGO sets one by one
> for their parts which I needed.
> But I made Millennium Falcon with 9079 pieces.
> That's all I know.
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> > 3. If you have the new LEGO Star Wars sets over in
> > Japan, what do you think of them?
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> I just wanted LEGO Star Wars, so I made it.
> It is interesting to see the LEGO Star Wars sets manufactured
> from a different angle.
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> > 4. Do you plan to make a LEGO movie of Episode One The
> > Phantom Menace?
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> Already LEGO sets of Episode one have been on sale here,
> I won't try it.
> I'm making a new one. It is Fifth Element of Luc Besson.
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> One of my acquaintances who likes LEGO,
> came to my house a few days ago.
> He has his website, and added my room's report and pictures.
> It is written by Japanese.
> But if you are interested, you can take a look.
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> http://www.infosnow.ne.jp/~sig/lego/maestro/maestro1.htm
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> http://www.infosnow.ne.jp/~sig/lego/maestro/maestro2.htm
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> My English version will be completed by the end of February.
> I will tell you about the news personally.
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> ============================================================================
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> As for myself, the pics for my page should be up soon. I took some but they did
> not turn out too well so I will try again soon. I bought a Slave 1 a few weeks
> and I am messing with it. So far I have made it about 6 studs wider and 8 studs
> longer. I also made the tail larger from 4 studs across to 6 studs across. It's
> a behemoth, I tell you! I think it is pretty close to minfig scale now. I have
> also been trying to make it so Boba Fett's seat can lean back and forth like it
> should for flight and landing. If they only separated the helmet and the jet
> pack! It would be so easy to do it then! Well that's all the news I have for
> now.
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> Happy Building,
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> Jeremy Crawford
i didn't understand a word of it, but know the movie well, and these are
some flawless models! ~even better than the starwars stuff. every detail
from "the fifth element" is accurately and ingeniously portrayed here.
kudos!
later ~ craig~
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