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Re: CHEWIE & C-3PO REVEALED!!!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:47:39 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Steve Bliss writes:
> > In lugnet.starwars, Lorbaat wrote:
> 
> > > 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!
> > 
> > I'm not too happy.  Chewie's fur seems to be done in the same style as the • EP1
> > hair pieces (and probably the Leia hair piece), which I'm too keen on.  I'd
> > rather have hair (and fur) done in the same style as the Town hair pieces.
> 
> Huh?  I'm kinda confused.  How are the SW hair pieces different from town • ones?
> 
> > And what about eyes?  They managed to paint Chewie's nose.
> 
> That is an excellent point.  I hadn't noticed the nose and the bandoliers.

Maybe they didn't print Chewie's or 3PO's eyes because TLC's factory isn't
tooled for printing in indentions?

Kevin

> 
> > I wonder what a C3P0 decoration on a regular minifig head would look like?
> > Probably terrible, or they would have done that.
> 
> I dunno.  I was figuring some eyes and a little upside-down "v" nose, a slit
> for a mouth... but that's it.  I really like the molded head, though.
> 
> 
> > The two tans look reasonably close to me.  As another poster noted, some of
> > the
> > tan pieces are more translucent than other pieces.  It looks like 3P0 has a
> > bad
> > case of transparency.
> 
> Yeah, I'm familiar with the "transparency" you're referring to (I got some in
> the Mos Espa POdraceI guess I'm just holding out hope the explaination is
> better newsthan that.  :D
> 
> eric



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(...) Huh? I'm kinda confused. How are the SW hair pieces different from town ones? (...) That is an excellent point. I hadn't noticed the nose and the bandoliers. (...) I dunno. I was figuring some eyes and a little upside-down "v" nose, a slit for (...) (27 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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