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(...) Judging by the volumes of Lucas-licensed plastic detritus (Jar-Jar pez dispenser, anyone?) that have been licensed, I'm not suprised that Lucas has allowed the Lego Cylon Soldier (I can't bring myself to acknowlege that it's supposed to be a (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) [] Actually, my beef isn't that it doesn't look like a stormtrooper, or that it doesn't use beams, or that it's not a vehicle. It's that, as far as I can tell, it doesn't *do* anything. Technic, for me, has always been about building (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well, heck, there was a real person in C-3PO as well, so I think we can be forgiven... (...) Yeah! I'll never forget when it finally dawned on me... it was an issue of Marvel's Star Wars title that made it fairly painfully clear. I don't (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I'd be amazed if the toy-marketing-spin-off department of Lucasfilm had anything to do with the production process of EP2; Approving (or not) this kind of toy is presumably exactly what they're paid to do. ---...--- Mark Cogan (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I think I was older before I figured out that there were real people in Stormtroopers... (Never mind the fact that Luke and Han get in the suits, obviously they just ripped the panels off the robots! Yeah, that's it...I was an idiot when I was (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I accept your point when it applies to some extreme examples of this, and I too sometimes find myself questioning the relevance of certain official lego models, but I do not see that this can be applied globally. Many of these parts (half (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I agree. As a rabid mecha fan, I look at those little ball-joint pieces and such and see a great array of mecha parts. I personally can't wait. (...) Ok, that's just weird ;) -Jeremiah- "Achitecture isn't about beauty of design or integration (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic, lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) But the head of the R2-D2 is basically a quarter sphere, isn't it? Even with some printing on it, it is more generally useful than a Stormtrooper helmet would be. (...) I think it is a daring move from TLC to launch a set like this, which (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Yeah, I know BG bears more than a passing resemblance to SW, but the Cylons were a cool design anyway, and way better looking than that Technic abomination, IMHO ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (25 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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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)
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