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Re: Gonk?
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 2 Jun 1999 02:06:29 GMT
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> I figure, one way to make him out of LEGO is a pair of dark gray minifig
> legs attached to a brick or something, but there's probably a more elegant
> solution using some of the techniques that the SW Ep1 LEGO sets used for
> the pit droids...?
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> --Todd
Well Here you go. I built one. I have posted a page with an LDraw Pic as
well as some real pics including R2-D2 for scale. I have not linked this to
my page yet but you can get to it by going to the following URL...
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shuttle/4598/Gonk.html
I hope you all like it. I may attempt some other Droids at some point. The
best thing about them is they don't use too many pieces.
Eric
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| (...) I like it. Simple but neat. IIRC, didn't this guy have overlapping feet, sort of like some of those wind-up toy animals? pax, (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Excellent! He looks odd in the orthographic LDraw version, but definitely "comes to life" in the photos! :) I especially like the way you used plates fore and aft of his legs to make them look shorter. Is he tilted back a bit because he's 2x4 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Gonk is an EG-6 power droid. He's the one in the sandcrawler in Ep4 who walks across the floor saying "Gonk...Gonk..." He looks like a giant rectangular car battery with legs. There are two EG-6's in the background in Watto's store in Ep1 too. (...) (25 years ago, 31-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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