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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 20:27:06 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> 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?
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 (IMHO) do that by itself -- especially with the rubber
projectile.
> I mean, they are all just approximations of the real things,
> and even the UCS sets have flaws, or so I've heard.
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> 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 think the problem boils down to the recognizability factor -- Stormtroopers
have "faces" that are extremely distinctive masks -- there's a focal point
that I see and think of, and I don't see it in the Technic model.
> 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.
Sounds like a good theory to me. I'm a bigtime SW fan and could probably
draw most ships on paper with my eyes closed. I watch the SW trilogy on tape
while sorting LEGO, so I've prolly seen it 100 times. (I hated Episode I
so much, BTW, that I only saw it 7 times in the theatre last year. :-)
> Anyway, I'm happy to hear that you are not saying that the designers
> efforts were bad.
Not at all -- I think it's a great effort (except the rubber projectile --
but I won't question their wisdom).
> Honestly I find it a bit disturbing when people
> call it "a thrown toghether pile of junk" or something to that effect.
That's just because we're disappointed in LEGO for releasing it. It's
emotion.
--Todd
> 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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| (...) I think, given the information from the Keiran (sp?) the Lego Direct Producer, the inclusion of the rubber projectile makes sense... when you have both sets, you can make the Stormtrooper shoot C-3PO and fly apart. Of course, this moves LEGO (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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