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Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic
Date: 
Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:37:31 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Kingsley writes:
> No thats not it.  I agree with you that it is a harder form to accurately
> depict without creating new parts but if they could accurately depict a
> Stormtrooper or other character then I would be all for it.  LEGO should
> not have avoided the Stormtrooper but they should have made the call to
> either scrap it when it became obvious they couldn't accurately portray
> the character or, put it off for a year until they could accurately portray
> a Stormtrooper.

Ahh, yes!  That's how I feel too.

My additional fear is that I wonder if they're planning some Saturday morning
cartoon commercial where they show the Stormtrooper blasting poor Threepio to
bits.  Violence aside, there are two problems with that:  (1) it happened in
Ep5, not Ep1 (and the Technic Threepio we see here is an Ep1 model) and (2) we
never saw Threepio get blasted in Ep5 -- we only saw his parts go scattering.


> [...]
> I personally would have rather had no Stormtrooper at all (In the Technic
> line).  [...]

Me too.  Now, I don't consider that my opinions count in Technic stuff since
I hardly buy it, but I try to buy all the SW stuff, and what I see here with
the Stormtrooper is that it's taking away from some other set that could have
been cool in its place.  I would much rather see a well-designed Technic truck
than a bad Technic likeness of a Stormtrooper.

--Todd



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) No he's not. Ep1 C-3PO was bare circuits. And even though the beams and stuff on the set are black, you can clearly see the gold paneling. (26 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) No, it is an Ep4-6 model. He has modeled as he having the cowlings, even with a silver cowling instead of golden on one of his legs. I thought that Todd was a "detail" man..:-) Selçuk (26 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)

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  Re: What is with the Technic Stormtrooper?
 
(...) No thats not it. I agree with you that it is a harder form to accurately depict without creating new parts but if they could accurately depict a Stormtrooper or other character then I would be all for it. LEGO should not have avoided the (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)

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