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Re: A Falcon in the works???
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Date: 
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:47:00 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Andrew R. Southwick writes:
> "jonathan wilson" <wilsonj@xoommail.com> twice wrote something like:
> > so if Lucas told TLG that in order to fill the Star Wars licence they
> > had to build a minifig scale Death Star they would do it, right?
> 
> That would be taller than the tallest building on the West Coast,
> and would cost into the billions of dollars, if it was a full model.
> Given the large size, a partial model would probably be more
> appropriate (i.e. it would be the shell of a sphere and only have
> enough internal stuff for a few shots here and there), yet still
> cost several million dollars.  The difficulty would be in getting
> past city ordinances to build something that large.

And the directions would have to be on several cd-roms, since printing that
much paper would deforest several hundred acres of land.

;-)

JG
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John Gerlach wrote in message ... (...) There might even be fierce fighting on getting that Death Star Building Plan. Eric (27 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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"jonathan wilson" <wilsonj@xoommail.com> twice wrote something like: (...) That would be taller than the tallest building on the West Coast, and would cost into the billions of dollars, if it was a full model. Given the large size, a partial model (...) (27 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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