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Re: Vehicle year/building year? (Was: Imperial Guards (was: Re: Sir Steve interviews someone from Lego)
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Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:42:59 GMT
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In article <FqICG1.6E8@lugnet.com>, Jason Catena <catena@xnet.com> wrote:
> It's true enough as an observation, since the static architecture (buildings
> and the like) has been very minimal in the Star Wars sets to date. I would
> guess, though, that children's primary interest (the sets the company wanted to
> get out first) were the ones that went "whoosh" when you flew them around the
> room. The company probably wanted to attract as much attention as possible to
> the line by allowing space battles with your friends, dodging the giant
> underwater beastie, etc.
Exactly. It's that, and one other thing:
How many movies do you see the Millenium Falcon in? X-Wing fighters?
TIE fighters?
How many movies do you see the base at Yavin 4 in? And at that, how many
scenes bother to show it? The action was on the space ships, not the
locations. Was the Hoth base worth modelling? Or was it just a place
for C-3PO to whine about Master Luke's chances and Artoo's pitiful
scanner range? Do we really _want_ a Jabba's palace built of 2x1x5
column pieces with neat swively bits like a crane and laser turret from
a Rock Raiders set?
That being said, I suspect we'll see that sort of thing soon enough.
I would bet that as soon as Lego's willing to do Ewok minifigs, we'll
see a forest base to blow up again and again.
While it would be really cool to get a Mos Eisley Cantina set for all
the cool minifigs, does anyone really think it would sell to anyone
who's not an AFOL or collector? Sure, a set with the bounty hunters
would be cool, but how can you do that without building a set that's
the deck of a star destroyer... a most positively boring place.
Until then... hmmm. I'd been wondering what to do with all those white
bricks, maybe I'll build a Hoth base. :)
-JDF
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