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Re: CHEWIE & C-3PO REVEALED!!!
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lugnet.starwars
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Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:26:17 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Kevin Knoot writes:
> > Check it out at rebelscum.com here: http://www.rebelscum.com/tf2000.asp
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> Wow!
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> Chewie looks almost exactly as I pictured him. I had assumed they'd go with
> the "ghost-sheet"-type solution. I think he looks great!
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> Threepio is interesting. I didn't expect the molded head. Cool! But... I
> wish he was vac-gold. Lego makes Vac-gold parts, why not Threepio? Then
> again, he's definitely not yellow... and while at first I thought he was tan,
> take a look at Luke's legs in the same shot. They look like two different
> colors! Could this be a new color? Maybe they're trying for a metallic-gold
> look without vac'ing the peices?
A gold-plated 3PO would be cool. Perhaps they made him out of a gold-colored
plastic instead was so they could print on his front AND back. Are there other
figs with back printing? I can't recall any. Very nice. Since they made the
head mold, perhaps we'll be seeing a TC-14 sometime soon.
Kevin
> The interior of the Falcon is plain, but that just leaves plenty of room for
> designing your own interior details. :D
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> I really, really can't wait for this set now.
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> eric
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) other real gold plating would be very expensive. The "silver" bricks are aluminum coated. Is there a gold substitute? If they used copper they would have to coat it too (and it might not be safe, since the coating could be chewed off). KL (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: CHEWIE & C-3PO REVEALED!!!
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| (...) Some of the ResQ and Extreme Team figs had both front and back printing, I think. What *I'm* wondering is - why are Han's sleeves tan instead of white? And shouldn't Leia have a 2x2x2 slope instead of legs? Didn't an older picture of the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: CHEWIE & C-3PO REVEALED!!!
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| (...) the "ghost-sheet"-type solution. I think he looks great! Threepio is interesting. I didn't expect the molded head. Cool! But... I wish he was vac-gold. Lego makes Vac-gold parts, why not Threepio? Then again, he's definitely not yellow... and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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