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Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 19 May 2000 18:47:37 GMT
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<old man voice>
When I was a kid, our spaceships were BLUE and GRAY and we LIKED
IT.
</old man voice>
I don't buy that argument. I built my own stuff when I was a kid. IMO, if you
have to learn to differentiate between parts, it only makes you a better
builder.
Let's hear it for NOT bowing to the lowest common denominator!
~Mark
In lugnet.starwars, Stephen Pakbaz writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Mark Sandlin writes:
> > My beefs aren't with scale. I realize that TLG couldn't make this thing • big
> > enough, because it would just cost too much.
> >
> > I stand by my comments, however, on the matters of:
> >
> > - color... once again, light blue?!?! why not more dark gray? [Cost to fix
> > this: none]
>
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> While putting togrther my falcon I noticed a pattern with the different
> colored pieces. Example:
>
> All 1x3 plates were brown
> All 1x8 tiles were gray
> All 1x2 grill tiles were blue
> All 1x4 tiles were dark gray
> All 2x4 bricks were red
> All 3x3 quarter cirdle plates were tan
> All 1x2 plates were red
> All 1x4 technic beams were blue
> All 1x2 sloped bricks were blue
> All 1x6 tiles were black
> etc etc etc
>
> seeing the pattern?
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> Now, imagine yourself a child 8-12 or older/younger trying to put the
> Millenium Falcon together when all the pieces are gray.
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> I believe that this might explain the blue and red and other pieces that
> make the Falcon look bad.
>
> HTH
>
>
> ---------
> "Live long and build"-Lego Spock
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| (...) 'scuse me? I thought kids were supposed to have *fun* with LEGO first, not suffer through character-building exercises. But I tend to agree with Fredrick's explanation, anyway. The fewer part-color combinations there are, the simpler (cheaper) (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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| (...) I don't really understand everyones perturbance about "juniorization" or whatever else you dont like about the pieces you get. I bought this set because I wanted the special pieces and the figures. frankly, any other pieces that it comes with (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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| (...) While putting togrther my falcon I noticed a pattern with the different colored pieces. Example: All 1x3 plates were brown All 1x8 tiles were gray All 1x2 grill tiles were blue All 1x4 tiles were dark gray All 2x4 bricks were red All 3x3 (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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