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Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic
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Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:33:20 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> writes:
> [...] I can only kvetch about how bad the model looks. IMHO, it
> should either look good or not exist at all. The Technic Pit
> Droid, Battle Droid, and Destroyer Droid all look great (IMHO) and
> C-3PO is marginal, but the Stormtrooper is extremely disappointing.
I hear your comments on this, but honestly I don't understand your
view. How is the Stormtrooper so much worse than the other Star Wars
models? I mean, they are all just approximations of the real things,
and even the UCS sets have flaws, or so I've heard.
You say that you like the Pit Droid. But that model uses basically
the same building technique as the Stormtrooper, in that it has
flexible tubes and arches to represent disc and sphere like shapes.
I'm not into Star Wars. But I still recognized the Stormtrooper from
the catalogue images. Perhaps the reason for me not understanding you
is the fact that I'm not a Star Wars fan? Perhaps Star Wars fans are
more likely to expect a Star Wars model to have realistically molded
elements? I dunno.
Anyway, I'm happy to hear that you are not saying that the designers
efforts were bad. Honestly I find it a bit disturbing when people
call it "a thrown toghether pile of junk" or something to that effect.
I bet it took a lot of effort to create the models. Seeing the images
cerainly has given me a lot of inspiration. Now, if only I had more
time for building...
Fredrik
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) Well let me try and explain my point of view better with some examples. I look at set 7191 you don't have to tell me that its an X-Wing. The same goes for basically all the System Star Wars sets and even all the Technic Star Wars sets except (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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| (...) I can't answer for Todd, but I'll try and explain why I feel the Stormtrooper is not a good set. (...) It's not the building technique I have a problem with. I think that the Pit Droid, the Droideka, the Battle Droid, and even C-3PO *look* (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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| (...) The other SW models look like SW ships and things. The Stormtrooper doesn't look like something from the SW universe. If you're told, "Hey, this is a Stormtrooper," you could say, "Ah, yes, OK, that looks like a Stormtrooper," but it doesn't (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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| (...) I can't speak for Eric and I'm sure he'll answer anyway, but my $.02 is that I agree that probably no one could have done any better with current parts. But I also feel that just because that's true (assuming it is) doesn't mean that the set (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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