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Possible New Lego Set in Germany?

by Paul

Over on the RebelScum.com forums, a user has posted a picture of a Lego TIE tank set with a Shadow Trooper mini-fig on display at the German toy fair.

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Now if this real, this marks a big step into the mucky suckitude of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. The TIE tank, or Crawler as it is officially known, has got to be one of the dumbest of all the E.U. vehicles. Really, how brilliant is it to have an assault vehicle with almost no armor and no rotating gun turret? The damn thing would have to have the pilot facing the enemy, which means he’d be completely exposed to enemy fire. Hell, he couldn’t even see anything besides what was in front of him. Those treads are so big and exposed that they are just asking for a Wookie with a wooden missile launcher to blow them apart. Don’t even get me started on the source of the TIE tank either, which is the comic book series Dark Empire that features Palpatine being resurrected as a clone. Talk about crapping on Vader’s triumph of redeeming himself by killing the old jerk in Jedi.

Please Lego, if you’re going to make this set then you owe Star Wars fans a TIE Phantom. Now that’s one hot looking TIE fighter variant.

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Posted in Lego, Lego News Block, News, Rant on February 5th, 2007

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2 Responses to “Possible New Lego Set in Germany?”

  1. Alex Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 6:14 am

    Thank You

  2. Toy Bender » Blog Archive » Lego January 2008 Catalog: Starrrrr Warrrrrs!!! Says:
    January 9th, 2008 at 7:00 am

    [...] it was a Target exclusive, but this is the first time it’s been in the Lego catalog. I made my opinion known about this some time ago so there’s no need to go there again… except that while this is a nice Lego set, it is [...]

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