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Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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Sun, 14 May 2000 21:33:20 GMT
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Well I have said it before and I guess I have to say it again. The external
scale of the life-sized falcon used in the movies is 40 percent smaller than
the internal sets that were used. TLC's falcon is a near perfect external
scale. Of course this means that the internal scale is crap. (It is
impossible to create an accurate model of this ship) The color scheme is a
dissapointment but that is about it.
-Lord Insanity
P.S. By the way every MOC falcon I have seen is oddly enough 40 percent too
big because they used the internal scale.
In lugnet.starwars, Mark Sandlin writes:
> Wow, having looked at all the photos from various sources, I have to say
> that I probably won't be buying the Millennium Falcon set. What a
> disappointment. TLG did such a good job on sets like the X-Wing and the
> Snowspeeder, and even Slave I... the sets captured the essence of their
> Star Wars counterparts very well, IMO.
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> This new Falcon is more like a Turkey.
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> It has the basic shape of the Falcon, but beyond that it bears no other
> resemblance to the "real" thing.
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> 1) The colors are poorly chosen (blue?)
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> 2)The shape is hollow... check out the single-plate-thick hull in the front,
> and the empty mandibles... they could at least have enclosed both sides
> so you couldn't see through them.
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> 3) The laser cannon on the roof is made from four antennas. Come ON,
> LEGO, where's the little widgets or at least a few cylinders to make it look
> like a laser cannon? Sheesh. My NLLSO could build a better laser
> cannon than that.
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> 4) The interior is square, with hardly any details, and it certainly doesn't
> reflect any of the form present in the films.
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> 5) That big cockpit canopy piece is just sad.
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> I think TLG is going to have to create a UCS Millennium Falcon before I'll
> consider buying one... unfortunately, that's not likely to happen because
> the cost would be prohibitive.
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> This seems to be another case of "It's great for the kids," but us AFOLS
> are left high and dry.
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> Discuss.
>
> ~Mark
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| The only falcon that was 40% too small was the one used in the first film (which incidentally, the set for was in my town :) the ones in the other films were the right size. alot of information about the millenium falcon is here: (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Wow, having looked at all the photos from various sources, I have to say that I probably won't be buying the Millennium Falcon set. What a disappointment. TLG did such a good job on sets like the X-Wing and the Snowspeeder, and even Slave I... the (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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