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Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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Date: 
Tue, 16 May 2000 23:04:06 GMT
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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.

I'd like to make two points:

1) Assuming that TLC showed the final model to Lucas first, how could Lucas
accept it?

2) Maybe we, as a group, should boycott the model and refuse to buy it.  :)

Bryan



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  Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
 
1st point: I may get lambasted, but I don't think the model is too bad... besides which, Lucas accepted most of the crap Hasbro came up with, including the poorly designed "expanded universe" series. He's also allowed numerous books to be made that (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Millennium Falcon Opinion
 
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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