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Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
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lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic
Date: 
Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:37:31 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Kingsley writes:
No thats not it.  I agree with you that it is a harder form to accurately
depict without creating new parts but if they could accurately depict a
Stormtrooper or other character then I would be all for it.  LEGO should
not have avoided the Stormtrooper but they should have made the call to
either scrap it when it became obvious they couldn't accurately portray
the character or, put it off for a year until they could accurately portray
a Stormtrooper.

Ahh, yes!  That's how I feel too.

My additional fear is that I wonder if they're planning some Saturday morning
cartoon commercial where they show the Stormtrooper blasting poor Threepio to
bits.  Violence aside, there are two problems with that:  (1) it happened in
Ep5, not Ep1 (and the Technic Threepio we see here is an Ep1 model) and (2) we
never saw Threepio get blasted in Ep5 -- we only saw his parts go scattering.


[...]
I personally would have rather had no Stormtrooper at all (In the Technic
line).  [...]

Me too.  Now, I don't consider that my opinions count in Technic stuff since
I hardly buy it, but I try to buy all the SW stuff, and what I see here with
the Stormtrooper is that it's taking away from some other set that could have
been cool in its place.  I would much rather see a well-designed Technic truck
than a bad Technic likeness of a Stormtrooper.

--Todd



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) No he's not. Ep1 C-3PO was bare circuits. And even though the beams and stuff on the set are black, you can clearly see the gold paneling. (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) No, it is an Ep4-6 model. He has modeled as he having the cowlings, even with a silver cowling instead of golden on one of his legs. I thought that Todd was a "detail" man..:-) Selçuk (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)

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  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) No thats not it. I agree with you that it is a harder form to accurately depict without creating new parts but if they could accurately depict a Stormtrooper or other character then I would be all for it. LEGO should not have avoided the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)

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