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The entire thing is supported by a chain of 1x2s and they're flexing them, badly. You can see the 1x2s in the second section he builds, right after he slides in the "wings".
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If they used lots of different colours, it would be easier to see what was happening.
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Lego people (and Star Wars fandom in general) are predictably losing their loving minds over this “Boba Fett’s Starship” poo poo. It ain’t real, folks. Boba Fett is a fictional character. If Disney wants to rename his ship to avoid referencing slavery in tyool 2021, then who the gently caress cares? Let them. It’s a made up spaceship flown by a made up character.
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Jun 28, 2021 01:27
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Sounds like the kind of thing you should be telling anyone that gets offended over the name of an imaginary space ship.  Better start coming up with a new name for brake parts if that's a concern.
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Jun 28, 2021 01:30
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In the first season of The Mandalorian, did they ever explicitly name the ship via dialogue or display? If the set is supposed to appeal to kids whose first introduction to Boba Fett was via that series, they'd know it as 'Boba Fett's ship', not 'Slave 1'. The Razor Crest was at least introduced via dialogue, so that makes sense to be on the box. Jorts ain't gonna cum themselves, I suppose.
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Jun 28, 2021 02:03
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ChesterJT posted:Sounds like the kind of thing you should be telling anyone that gets offended over the name of an imaginary space ship. it's incredible how many times you've complained about people talking politics in this thread but you literally can't stop yourself from posting stupid poo poo like this at every available opportunity
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Jun 28, 2021 02:07
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:In the first season of The Mandalorian, did they ever explicitly name the ship via dialogue or display? If the set is supposed to appeal to kids whose first introduction to Boba Fett was via that series, they'd know it as 'Boba Fett's ship', not 'Slave 1'. The Razor Crest was at least introduced via dialogue, so that makes sense to be on the box. Tatooine isn't named in dialogue in ANH and Ewoks aren't named in RotJ. I'm fine with them changing / not using the name but kids can work this kind of thing out.
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Jun 28, 2021 02:41
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Lego people (and Star Wars fandom in general) are predictably losing their loving minds over this “Boba Fett’s Starship” poo poo. I hadn't heard about this, are they actually renaming it or just omitting the name? Also, other than death star, millennium falcon, and razor crest, do the ships get named on camera? I played a lot of the supplement games so I know about executor, Avenger, home one, and Majestic, but do most people?
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Jun 28, 2021 03:11
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HootTheOwl posted:I hadn't heard about this, are they actually renaming it or just omitting the name? It strikes me as a “Lego needs to print their boxes, so this will do for now” sort of solution - I’m guessing they’re gearing up for a Book of Boba Fett reveal of the name, but don’t want to spoil it. Its a Star Wars name, so it has a 95% chance of being awful, whatever they decide.
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HootTheOwl posted:I hadn't heard about this, are they actually renaming it or just omitting the name? The Ghost gets namedropped all the time in Rebels, but that's really an exception. Hell I'm not 100% sure the X-Wing is named on screen in ANH.
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Jun 28, 2021 03:58
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The Ghost gets namedropped all the time in Rebels, but that's really an exception. This made me curious so I CTRL-F'ed a transcript. All 93 mentions are in directional text, no dialogue. That's pretty weird! I guess it's a good way to make an item feel commonplace in a setting.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Lego people (and Star Wars fandom in general) are predictably losing their loving minds over this “Boba Fett’s Starship” poo poo. Tbh I always thought it was hilarious that Lego, of all companies was stuck with something called the "slave 1" The new one is clearly aimed way more at little kids than the last two. I think it would be a little weird if they did another UCS Slave 1 (probably not due for another decade anyways) and called it boba fetts starship though. Edit: oh wait I guess Disney changed the name entirely. I'm sorry, I'm with them, that is dumb. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Jun 28, 2021 |
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Jun 28, 2021 05:15
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Disney is a hundred billion dollar media juggernaut. They know which way the wind is blowing and are adjusting accordingly. Like their updated rides... https://www.npr.org/2021/02/01/962772012/disney-revamps-jungle-cruise-ride-to-remove-racist-depictions-of-indigenous-peop They've also been doing things like this forever. Like memory holing Song of the South. deoju fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Jun 28, 2021 |
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Jun 28, 2021 05:47
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the most recently released lego star wars game is so old it has blue tie fighters and yoda has the really hosed up looking head piece.
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Blue Moonlight posted:It strikes me as a “Lego needs to print their boxes, so this will do for now” sort of solution - I’m guessing they’re gearing up for a Book of Boba Fett reveal of the name, but don’t want to spoil it. This is my guess. Either it’ll stay Slave I and just never be mentioned directly in dialogue, or like you said they’re about to debut a new name but don’t want it plastered on packaging yet.
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Jun 28, 2021 06:39
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Hello my hot take is that it is both cool and good to stop using the word 'slave' to talk about a spaceship in a kid's franchise.
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Boba Fett is a bad guy. It was a cool sounding name for a bad guy ship that people have been using for 40 years. I'm not going to have an online tantrum about the company that had enough money to make their fanfics canon changing it, but I'll continue to call it the Slave 1 just like everyone else on the planet will.
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Jun 28, 2021 08:22
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I'm gonna call it Boba Fett's Starship
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Jun 28, 2021 08:25
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Have fun being the guy insisting that it's the "Tantiveeee 4."
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veni veni veni posted:Have fun being the guy insisting that it's the "Tantiveeee 4." I literally just said I'm gonna call it Boba Fett's Starship. 
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From now on I am calling Chewbacca "Shaggy 2 Dope"
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veni veni veni posted:Have fun being the guy insisting that it's the "Tantiveeee 4." This may be the stupidest Star Wars hill to die on that I've ever seen in my entire life. The Tantive IV is a blockade runner in the same sense that a Corvette is a sports car. Calling it "the Blockade Runner" as if that were it's name is just calling it by a generic name for an entire subclass of vehicles, a subclass that the Tantive IV had to be modified to fit into. It's not even the only blockade runner in the movies it's in, or the blockade runner with the most screentime. That's the Millennium Falcon. Though the Millennium Falcon is built to be a cargo ship, and the modifications that make it capable of running blockades are akin to putting a stock car engine in a golf cart. The Tantive IV is more like a Civic, and the blockade running modifications are much more common. But the Tantive IV is the vehicle's name, and if you're butthurt about that, call it a CR90 Corvette, which is the model.
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I thought there’d been a big surprise reveal with 25 new posts, but nope. Star Wars ship naming discourse.
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Surely there is a Star Wars thread to argue very passionately about the latest hallucinations and very important ships? In Lego news, the flower set is on deck in our house, but the kiddo and I just finished 42121 “Heavy duty excavator” and it was a lot of fun to build. Kiddo, as you may recall, is very into mindstorms and so I wanted something technic that had a new motion she hadn’t already seen. A friend offhandedly suggested I look for something in the technic line with linear actuators and mentioned the somewhat elliptical motion they can add to things like the digging arm and this is honestly great. You get two hand driven drivetrains to really fine tune the motions of the digging arm and the bucket is surprisingly durable. Real sand pits have been dug, in addition to very large piles of LEGO. There are even sections of panels that are approximately the size of the new motors, so kiddo is already thinking about modifying this into robo excavator the same way she modified the crane into robocrane. A win.
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Jun 28, 2021 11:26
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My daughter helped me build «the snail ship» so to me it is Snail 1
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Re Booboo Feet's Starship; frankly it's stupid to even bother discussing. We know what it is/was called when it was a baddie ship. If Disney changes it, well so be it. I suspect they will instead just drop the name completely. What I want to know is the name of Mando's ship. E; New mandalorian sets looking dope.
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Oh and this also has treads, but Lego treads are kinda sad. Kiddo snapped them all together and then asked why they didn’t just give us a rubber belt.
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xzzy posted:The pre-minifig microfighters were amazing builds too. I just love microscale, I wish I wasn't so trash at building it though. ChesterJT posted:Sounds like the kind of thing you should be telling anyone that gets offended over the name of an imaginary space ship. In a world where everything gets a name, a backstory and importance. Having something called "x's starship" is ridiculous. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm relabelling my motherboard so I can pretend slavery never happened.
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The "microfighter" bantha is a pretty good bantha in its own right.
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Darth TNT posted:Now if you'll excuse me, I'm relabelling my motherboard so I can pretend slavery never happened.
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On the plus side, I now have a collector's item UCS Slave I. On the minus side, it's a collector's item named Slave I.
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Darth TNT posted:Now if you'll excuse me, I'm relabelling my motherboard so I can pretend slavery never happened. Got me wondering if a lego set of a pc build would be cool. Scaled down a bit of course.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Lego people (and Star Wars fandom in general) are predictably losing their loving minds over this “Boba Fett’s Starship” poo poo. Inexcusable erasure. In protest I will only be spending $10000 (more) on lego and star wars crap this year I never understood the love for Boba Fett, which was insane even back when it was just the original trilogy.
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Didn't Fett first appear in the X-mas special? He was kinda cool and not yet a baddie there. Also kids love the cool baddie, same how Vader is popular despite choking out random people. Someone on reddit pointed out a lot of the SW ships are not named, including the Mandalorian Fighter, and Bad Batch Shuttle.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The "microfighter" bantha is a pretty good bantha in its own right. It's really cute! I wanted to get the microfighter Dewback but it had left shelves before I got the chance. I also have the Tauntaun now and the micro AT-AT looking like the puppy of the normal AT-AT on my shelf and they make me happy. Having not watched any of the animated Star Wars series I was happy ignoring anything Lego related to them but I just downloaded some of the Bad Batch to watch on a few recent flights and it now looks like I'm gonna be needing their shuttle, FFS.
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ChesterJT posted:Got me wondering if a lego set of a pc build would be cool. Scaled down a bit of course. https://www.chrismcveigh.com/cm/building_guides_-_technology.html
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Darth TNT posted:In a world where everything gets a name, a backstory and importance. Having something called "x's starship" is ridiculous. What's the name of Kylo Ren's Command Shuttle? I'll wait.
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