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h2odragon
Probably needs major repairs: i bet it doesn't even fly.
NoZebra120vClip
We were all baffled, baffled I tell you, about the spacecrafts' need for wings in the vacuum of space. Plus how they could expand/retract them for different flying configurations. I mean it makes a cool toy, I can promise you that, but I think X-Wing wings were harder to justify than the unwieldy B-wing or the TIE Fighter's panels (were they supposed to be solar?)
h2odragon
something about the "ion drive"; "Twin Ion Engine" was the expansion of the acronym, right?
jstarfish
> the TIE Fighter's panels (were they supposed to be solar?)

They always struck me as optical camoflauge for space...absorbing light instead of reflecting it.