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Re: Star Wars sets are a dream come true
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Fri, 26 Mar 1999 00:08:35 GMT
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Hey Ben-
Reading your post as you waxed on nostalgically made me think of something
disturbing-- "what if Ben is completely smitten with SW? What if he has been
seduced by the Dark Side [1] and decides to go gaga into Space? Say it ain't
so...:-(" (Headline: "The PNLTC has announced it has changed its domain name to
PNLMSWC, and will no longer do train shows but begin a new chapter following Star
Wars and Star Trek conventions. Their life size model of ....." <shudder>
[1] *Any* theme that isn't TRAINSTRAINSTRAINS;-) <serpentine Sheldon, serpentine>
-John
Ben Fleskes wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago, my dad passed on some old pictures of our family when we
> were kids. Many of the photos show me playing with Lego (it's all I really did
> as a kid) One picture shows me with a model of an X-wing made out of Lego. The
> year was 1978. I remember clearly how I struggled to get the x-wings to rotate
> into attack position and make laser cannons that looked like the real thing. I
> ended up using four of the five 2x4x1/3 hinge plates I had at the time for the
> rotating wings.
>
> Now, 21 years later, I just built the Lego x-wing. What a great set. All the
> Lego SW sets are good. So much better then a lot of the stuff I've seen Lego
> come out with lately. Good models, using lots of slopes, plates and standard
> bricks built solid. Sure there are a few specialized pieces, But they are
> there to serve a function, not to get the look right.
>
> So I say now: Well done Lego. I look forward to purchasing all the future
> Star Wars Lego sets provided they are done with the same quality.
>
> I'll need to re-build my Millenium Falcon and attempt to match the realism Lego
> has included in it's own models. I'm not holding my breath and expecting Lego
> to build one since I'd expect it require 5000+ pieces and I do not know of any
> Lego sets that have that many pieces. Unfortunately, if they do make one, my
> fear is that it will include a large selection of single purpose pieces. So
> I'll attempt the challenge myself.
>
> Anyone know the site that has a minifig scale Millenium Falcon on it? Seems I
> remember some Navy guy that built one.
>
> Thanks for listening.
>
> Ben Fleskes
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| A couple of weeks ago, my dad passed on some old pictures of our family when we were kids. Many of the photos show me playing with Lego (it's all I really did as a kid) One picture shows me with a model of an X-wing made out of Lego. The year was (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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