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Subject: 
Re: Imperial Shuttle
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lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:59:41 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Bryan Hodges writes:
I'm wondering why the instructions tell us to put
the grill tiles on the inboard side of the wing root, blocking the wings
from folding up all the way.  Just thought I'd contribute, haven't posted
much lately.  Talk to everyone later.

Actually the wings were originally supposed to be vertical at landing, not
pointed in towards the vertical wing.  In Return of the Jedi, where the
shuttles first appeared, the wings were vertical when the shuttle was
"parked."  I'm not sure where the angled-in wings first appeared, but I do
remember seeing them in ESB Special Edition and wondering why they were
pointed in.  Since ESBSE wasn't released until about 14 years after the
original ROTJ, the ROTJ version was shown first.

We watched the original ROTJ a few days ago (actually, my sons watched, I
caught a few scenes).  I saw one shot of a shuttle landing (or maybe
launching), and the wings were clearly angled inwards.  So this is part of
the original movie.

Steve



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(...) I watched that scene as well, after I made my comment... The wings are angled inward, however not to the point of touching the large fin. The wings can be seen in various positions when "parked" in ROTJ. The main one I remembered seeing were (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars)

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(...) Actually the wings were originally supposed to be vertical at landing, not pointed in towards the vertical wing. In Return of the Jedi, where the shuttles first appeared, the wings were vertical when the shuttle was "parked." I'm not sure (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars)

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