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Re: CHEWIE & C-3PO REVEALED!!!
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lugnet.starwars
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Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:01:14 GMT
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Kevin Loch wrote:
> 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. 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).
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> KL
They should use what ever coating they used on the bugle and gold coin parts.
--
Jonathan Wilson
wilsonj@xoommail.com
http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/
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| (...) Coating is evil. It can be chipped off very easily. I can't think of a coated minifig with all the articulation. The method that they used to make 8448 (and some other 1999 technic car) hubs could be much better (looking worse than coating, I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: CHEWIE & C-3PO REVEALED!!!
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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)
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