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Re: blasters in sw sets
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:19:13 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Tim McSweeney writes:
> The old Classic Space sets had a piece that looked a hell of a lot like a
> blaster, The Official instructions showed it being used like some sort of
> camera but if you turned it around it made a greate Blaster/Rifle
One of these comes with the Snow Speeder set for the Hoth Rebel Soldier that is
included in that set. Although I would not call it the best blaster in the
world.
Seeing that they have Guns in the Adventurers sets I hope somewhere along the
way they will come out with decent Blasters because obviously they have
overcome any fears TLG may have had in the past about including "guns" in sets.
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 | | Re: blasters in sw sets
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| I read in an article on the new Star Wars line that the initial classic set release had the fastest turn around time at lego ever - 1 year. I would guess that the number of new pieces in the sets would be limitted by that short turn around. They (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: blasters in sw sets
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| all the tlg guns have been hiustorical guns (pirates,adventurers,western). tlg has never released and element that looks remotly like a real modern gun and that includes the sw blasters which are obvosly too much like modern guns for tlgs liking. (25 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: blasters in sw sets
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| (...) I actually don't think that's too far off the "classic" toy blaster rifle you could buy in '80 or '81. As for blaster pistols, well, nothing really good exists, although those of you who remember the original Jawa figures (apparently, one (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: blasters in sw sets
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| The old Classic Space sets had a piece that looked a hell of a lot like a blaster, The Official instructions showed it being used like some sort of camera but if you turned it around it made a greate Blaster/Rifle Check out some of the old sets like (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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