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Re: Finally got to see the movie!
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:40:07 GMT
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On 6/1/99, at 7:30 AM, Scott Edward Sanburn wrote:
<CUT BORING STUFF>
> Overall, I thought it was a great movie, the special effects were stunning, and
> the pod race was awesome! My only real complaint was the "evil" Trade
> Federation. Do all bad guys go to the Bad Guy school of Idiocy? Ugh, can you
> imagine having one source for all droid communication? Where's the backup?
I like the battle droids but they were way too reckless. I mean it was like,
"Oh, look! A Jedi!
I wonder what he's going to do with that lightsaber!? Oh, I just found out."
They were quick
to turn(in most cases) but slow to raise their blaster. Figure that out.
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> The only other suggestion was Darth Maul, for being as publicized as he was, he
> sure didn't have much of a part. I think the pilots of the Queens ship (Looked
> like a chrome SR-71 Blackbird, BTW, for all you military jet buffs out there)
> had a bigger part.
I knew it reminded me of some real plane. I think I'll check a picture to see
how close it
really is to a blackbird.
> It was a great movie, now I am looking forward to changing about half the Lego
> sets to match the actual one in the movie!
>
> Scott Sanburn
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| Hi, It is very similar to the blackbird, without the canted vertical stabilizers over the engines. The queen's cockpit is much further back as well. Her ship appears to be at least 2-4x the size of an SR71, which is really quite small. See my (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| To all, Well, I finally saw the movie! I wanted to wait until the crowds would not be so bad, and I was not disappointed! My place of work has summer hours, which translates into having half of Friday off, so I went to the Showcase theater nearby. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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