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  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) Well seeing they are in the middle of filming EP2 I would bet the resources devoted to this sort of things arn't quite what they were. Eric Kingsley (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) No I am just suggesting a helmet. They did the head for R2-D2 in the Droid Developers kit... I am not suggesting a bunch of new parts, just one or two so the head looks right. As for would it still be LEGO? of course it would because LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) It doesn't matter if anyone out here could or couldn't do better. If LEGO couldn't do any better, they should have scrapped the model at the planning stage. It's an embarrassingly transparent attempt to slap something together, throw a Star (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
 
  Very Rare TECHNIC Demo Model!
 
Hi Technic fans, collectors and maniacs! :) Just wanna hear what you guys think of this very rare Technic Demo Model set I am auctioning off. Any of you guys seen this set in stores before? (I am not asking for bids, don't worry). Please take a good (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) I don't understand this. You said that you liked the minifig Stormtrooper, which is basically a new mold and some new printed parts (I suppose). And you would also like a the larger Technic Stormtrooper to have new molds to make it look more (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) I hardly think so. The alternative would be to have new molds for the specific parts like the Stormtrooper helmet or hands or feet or... Do we want that? (I don't.) Another alternative would be to have large stickers or printed parts to make (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) I dunno: seems like it'd be awfully drafty... Ran [Imagining a ring of minifig archers surrounding a Technic-walled castle, cackling "Haha! Baldur was right: it *is* just like shooting fish in a barrel!"] (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.starwars)
 
  Re: new racing steering wheels
 
(...) Your message appears to indicate that the old medium sized technic steering wheel is not useful in racing cars or that it is wrongly scaled. How so? What is it you dislike about it? I think the old medium sized technic steering wheel fits just (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) Ahh but TLG's designers Arn't limited to the "currently available range of LEGO pieces". They can design new parts if needed. I think the main problem is the head and all that would have required is some sort of molded mask that looked like a (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
In lugnet.starwars, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) I think thats probably as close as you are going to get to what happened. I have a feeling these will be on clearence in no time. (...) No thats saying something comming from you!!! (...) Agreed, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic, lugnet.year.2001)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
This isn't meant to be directed at anyone in particular, but given the currently available range of LEGO pieces that have been seen in Technic sets lately, could anyone out there have done better? TLG's designers did a reasonably good job, given (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) I am really looking forward to this set, not as a set but as a parts pack. Its the only set to date that has the small decorative panels in white. It also has a number of other parts in white and some in black. Plus its the only set that has (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic, lugnet.year.2001)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) I completely agree. They are plain ugly and utterly disappointing. And I can't see any mechanical functions other than the stupid launching thing in the hands of trooper. They don't have even the elegance/close resemblance of the same series (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) C-3PO is the better of the two, but they're both pretty bad. I think the problem here is both sets were guys in suits, as opposed to last year's technic droids which were all cgi constructs. Plus, half the appeal of last year's droids was that (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
 
  new racing steering wheels
 
(URL) set number 8242. It looks like lego has finally come up with a decent steering wheels for race cars. and it looks like it would fit the scale of technic figs. Geordan (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
Some of both I'm sure : ) (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
 
  2001 sets
 
Is there any news on real technic sets yet? I don't see those create n race things or any other decent sets in the scans that are available now. To me those Roboriders, Slizers and what have you are all transformers that happen to use the odd LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
Phew, that's a relief! Thought I was the only conservative left in Technic Lego... Duq "James Simpson" <jsimpson@rice.edu> wrote in message news:G30A3o.A1x@lugnet.com... (...) sure that (...) prefer good (...) plastic (...) of (...) someone (...) (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
Almost completely agree. I just think the battle droid is an awesome bit of engineering. The other droids are overpriced merchandising. Then again, what do you expect when paying for two badges? Duq (...) worth (...) bet (...) has (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) It's not that -- it's that it doesn't look like a Stormtrooper. --Todd (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic, lugnet.year.2001)


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