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White vs. Gray in SW sets (was Re: Feelings over 2000 sets . . .)
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 7 Mar 2000 00:59:39 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
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> Maybe we'll see a UCS MF with these in gray! (drool)
This touches on my biggest pet peeve with official SW LEGO that really only
got worse in the 2000 sets:
WHY ARE ALL OF THE SHIPS THAT SHOULD BE WHITE MADE IN GRAY?!?!?!
Ahem. Sorry, I lost it there for a second. But, really, the Millenium
Falcon was white, X-Wings were white, Snowspeeders were white, A-Wings were
white...now, I know what you're saying. "Derek, the Star Wars universe is
'lived-in' and dirty, so gray represents these sets better." Yes, that's
why I didn't include the Y-Wing (which actually DID have white in the LEGO
version), because they were old and beat up. And yes, the Snowspeeders were
sort of an off-white, so I can accept them in gray. But the Falcon,
X-Wings, and A-Wings? Are the LEGO designers color blind? Aaarrgh!
Okay, I'm better now.
Derek
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| (...) That's mainly what's kept me from going hogwild over the new Arctic sets -- seems like a lot of air in the boxes. OTOH, I think 4 of the large pre-fab pieces in the big base are those awesome 4x4x6 concave corridor corners in Gray! (Can anyone (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town)
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