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Re: Cloud City
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:58:08 GMT
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From: "Jude Beaudin" <shiningblade@home.com>

But did not Kenner do some capital ships for their figures that were not to
movie scale but still looked cool. Perhaps Lego could do the same. A small
Minifig Blockade Runner would still look awesome if built right. Who cares
about scale?

They made a playset with some of the features of the Executor, and there
was, of course, the Death Star Playset, but those were the only ones that
were compatible with the 3.5" figs. I've seen pictures of a prototype
Tantive IV, but they never released it. :^(

~Mark
--
Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego



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  Re: Cloud City
 
(...) True, but it was also horribly, horribly out of scale. Still, *lots* of the Hasbro ships etc were subject to "selective compression". The X-wing was a bit stout around the middle and had short wings. The Millenium Falcon was pretty grossly (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: Cloud City
 
(...) They also made the "Rebel Transport" from ESB (The ones they use to escape from Hoth). It wasn't a playset, it was the complete ship. Basically, you could stand all your action figures in it. It was completely out of scale. Kev Z #142 (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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(...) But did not Kenner do some capital ships for their figures that were not to movie scale but still looked cool. Perhaps Lego could do the same. A small Minifig Blockade Runner would still look awesome if built right. Who cares about scale? A (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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