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| Love the Gonk. Thanks for the directions. I always enjoyed making robots when I was a kid. If a part couldn't be used for anything else (airplane fin, jetski handlebars, metal detector) it could always be used in a robot. (...) elegant (...) to (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Hey, do we have that message archived from our own LUGNETter who has (and may be) the original story of the "Gonk" name? If it's any consolation, it now appears to have official Lucasfilm sanction: The recent Star Wars toys have such a droid (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Markus, Thanks a lot. Nothing like an 8 month old thread resurfacing :-). I assume you found one of my Gonk pages that liked back to my anouncement about him and then you posted. For those of you that might be interested the GeoCities Page (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| As far as I know, Gonk's name came from the RASSM (rec.arts.scifi.starwars.misc) ng. For those of you who aren't RASSM'ers (AKA rats, depending on personal preference), you're missing out on a lot of (sometimes) interesting (sometimes) wacky (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) (URL) If it's any consolation, it now appears to (...) Awright!!! --Todd (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Thanks for the inspiration, I hadn't thought about the jetski handlebar piece. I'm now building 'bots with serious eyebrow problems. My favorite: take the Gasgano 'fig. Remove the head. Stick on a handlebar-on-a-clip. Turn two of the arms (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| <Star Wars Freak hat> It's called "Gonk" because that's a sort of onomatopoetic version of the noise that one of these power droids makes whilst sitting in the jawa's landcrawler in Episode IV. -Cheese </Star Wars Freak hat> (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Eric, Whoop, I paid no attention to how old the thread was. I just saw the page that said, "Tell me how you like it on Lugnet" and I did. But I'm glad I could resurrect it. (...) Markus (...) if (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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