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Re: Watto's Junk shop boxed set or bucket?
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Date: 
Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:48:17 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Zak Arntson writes:
I have to agree about the price.  The Star Wars bucket is the only set I'm not
getting in the SW Line, because

1) The minifigs are cheesy Anakin and Jar-Jar (HOW many other sets have Jar-
Jar?), oh and the TRULY BIZARRE goggled-head w/ slope brick w/ droid legs.
What the heck?

2) I can't justify the price for the pieces.  I don't think the set comes
with any instructions, and I certainly didn't see any really cool models on
the outside of the tub.

The bucket does come with instructions for all the pod racers shown on the
bucket (at least on the "front" side - I think there are some alternate models
shown). In fact, you can make all of them at once. The set really isn't that
bad. Sure, it isn't quite the same quality as 7171, but it's probably a much
more practical set for a kid to re-enact a pod race with.

Frank



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  Re: Watto's Junk shop boxed set or bucket?
 
(...) So we have the 7171 and a ligth version as the pod bucket. What migth come next is a UCS pod racer like Joel Kuster´s (URL) The logical next step would be a smaller/ligther version than the pod bucket: a Duplo pod racer. Anyone who has enough (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Watto's Junk shop boxed set or bucket?
 
I have to agree about the price. The Star Wars bucket is the only set I'm not getting in the SW Line, because 1) The minifigs are cheesy Anakin and Jar-Jar (HOW many other sets have Jar- Jar?), oh and the TRULY BIZARRE goggled-head w/ slope brick w/ (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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