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Re: CHEWIE & C-3PO REVEALED!!!
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lugnet.starwars
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Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:16:07 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Kevin Loch writes:
> > In lugnet.starwars, Kevin Knoot writes:
> > > 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
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> > real gold plating would be very expensive.
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> They probably could have vac-metalized Threepio but, then again, the parts for
> a minifig might be too small/delicate for vac-metalising.
I think the plating would have rubbed off in heavy use areas, like the joints.
Having a beige C3PO is better than having one with areas of plating missing.
;)
Jeff
"You can't be a hero hiding underneath your bed"
http://members.xoom.com/aulddragon/
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: CHEWIE & C-3PO REVEALED!!!
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| (...) Oh, agreed, definitely, but like I said, he's not quite beige, either. Compare him to Luke's legs in the same photo... he's a slightly different color. Is this a new Lego color made just for Threepio? I looks almost like a gold pearlised or (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: CHEWIE & C-3PO REVEALED!!!
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| (...) Nah, a C3P0 with some of the plating missing would just look like the C3P0 from the movies. 8) He was pretty beat up, after all... (Too bad they didn't give him one silver-grey leg!) J (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: CHEWIE & C-3PO REVEALED!!!
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| (...) Err, well, I wasn't referring to *real* gold plating, but to vac-metalizing, which is the process they use on the big silver broadswords, the little Divers daggers, and (more importantly) the Spaceport gold visors and domes. They probably (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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