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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 16:22:50 GMT
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"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> writes:
> Again the Pit Droid looks like a Pit Droid. The Stormtrooper isn't
> recognizable as such. It has nothing to do with building
> technique, it has everything to do with recognizability.
Ah, so you're saying that the Pit Droid looks like a Pit Droid because
virtually no other "gizmo" has the same looks? But the Stormtrooper,
on the other hand, is basically a humanoid shape with a specific set
of armour plates. Hence, as this is a very common shape, more
accuracy is needed to model the Stormtrooper.
This implies that while the level of accuracy of the LEGO Pit Droid
and the LEGO Stormtrooper models may be comparable, the Stormtrooper
model will still be inferior (in your view), as more accuracy is
needed to depict it accurately. In that case, LEGO should avoid
difficult characters like the Stormtrooper, and stick to Star Wars
characters that are more easily recognizeable?
> My guess is that if you took 10 Star Wars fans that were not LEGO
> fans and showed them this model that you would be lucky to get one
> or two that would recognize it as a Stormtrooper.
In my opinion, this is all about imagination. It takes some
imagination to recognize the LEGO Stormtrooper as a Stormtrooper.
This is the kind of imagination the I think LEGO is all about. No
offence, of course, but I think perhaps that the 10 above Star Wars
fans will be more happy with realistic looking non-LEGO Star Wars
products than the LEGO brand Star Wars product we have seen lately.
Fredrik
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| (...) That sounds like a good plan to me, (...) To me, LEGO is about the imagination to create new things (or to find ways to represent things), not about the imagination to see pictures in the clouds. (...) Not really. I know an entire household (6 (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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| In lugnet.starwars, Fredrik Glöckner writes: Sorry to interrupt here; Just a couple of observations/questions... (...) Reliable accuracy is indeed needed for both. Lego did very well with the Pit Droid, and I have all confidence that Lego could do (...) (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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| (...) 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)
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