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Great parts: 3 old style motors (from 8720) 2 gray worm gear boxes technic cable system pieces lots of black and gray technic beams some nice red plates last but not least the control center itself. Its not a pretty good deal, its a GREAT deal. Jump (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) It may be a nifty set, I don't know, but...it is not a reasonable representation of a Stormtrooper, IMO. I'm not much of a Technic fan anylonger, but had the Stormtrooper set had the quality , elegance, and reasonable accuracy of the Battle (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well let me try and explain my point of view better with some examples. I look at set 7191 you don't have to tell me that its an X-Wing. The same goes for basically all the System Star Wars sets and even all the Technic Star Wars sets except (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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Whenn this set appeared a few years ago, I was amazed by the picture, but the price was just too much for me ($219 USD). I therefore bypassed it. Today one of my neighbors who is not interested in Lego anymore informed me that he wants to sell some (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) How cool! That is just what I did when I was a child. I always compared Technic sets by the number of distinct working functions. I had almost forgotten this by now, and was happily reminded of this by your post. My fav model as a child was (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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