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    Am I crazy . . . —David Simmons
   (...) or are the bricks in this set red instead of orange? Is it a photographic error? They should be orange. The studio models were orange. We need more orange. Can anyone confirm the true color for the set? Dave (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: Am I crazy . . . —Joel Hoornbeek
   Yes, the majority of the set is red, with brown and dark gray accents. (I have one sitting on my moniter as I type this.) Overall, I think this is a very nice set. -Joel (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: Am I crazy . . . —David Simmons
     It's cool that we're going to get four red medium-slope corners in a $10 set, but the set should've been orange. Continuing proof that too many people in the R&D department aren't familiar with the films. Dave "Joel Hoornbeek" <joel@webaccess.net> (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Am I crazy . . . —Kevin Johnston
      (...) I share your disappointment (actually I'd rate this is one of my biggest disappointments with the SW theme), but since the model was approved by Lucasfilm I doubt the color was overlooked. Since they've made simliar decisions in the past, my (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
     
          Re: Am I crazy . . . —John R. Beck
      (...) In my humble opinion the cloud car is rather spiffy actually. It seemed to scale with the the other starfighters and well constructed. In any event in the movies they seemed reddish to me anyway. My eyes! My eyes! What's the matter with them? (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Am I crazy . . . —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) You can't be serious! That they chose red is, IMHO, just absolutely great. It's a orangish red anyway. There was a lot of orange in previous sets (snow speeder for instance) and I am glad to see these very useful parts come out in red rather (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Am I crazy . . . —Kevin Johnston
     (...) C'mon, these parts will show up elsewhere, and getting them in a common color like red is almost a lock. Whereas, it's now almost a lock that we'll never get this set in the proper color, the color that every other toy Cloud Car since the 80's (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: Am I crazy . . . —Mark Chittenden
   Considering that Lucasarts prolly had the final ok on what the model will look like, I would imagine that there was a prototype with LEGO's bright orange bricks, but Lucasarts prolly thought it was too 'bright' and the red in use now was the (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
 

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