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<P>The Austrian Turkish Cultural Community has criticized a LEGO Star Wars product for looking similar to a mosque in Istanbul. The product is however not based on any real building but on a fictional building from a scene in the movie Star Wars Episode VI.</P>
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<P>All LEGO Star WarsTM products are based on the movies of the Star WarsTM saga created by Lucasfilm. Jabba’s Palace appears in Star WarsTM Episode VI and appears in a famous scene on the planet Tatooine. The building is the palace of Jabba – a fictional movie character.</P>
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<P>The picture shown above depicts the building from the movie scene. The LEGO designers try to reproduce all buildings, space ships and characters from the movies as close as possible when creating a new LEGO Star WarsTM product. </P>
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<P>This is done to allow both young and old Star WarsTM fans to act out the scenes from the movies at home. The LEGO Star WarsTM product Jabba´s palace does not reflect any non-fictional buildings, people, or the mentioned mosque.</P>
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<P>The LEGO minifigures shown on the box and found inside the box (Jabba, Salacious Crumb, Bib Fortuna, Gamorreanic Guard, Oola, Han Solo, Princess Leia disguised as Boushh, Chewbacca and B’omarr Monk) are all modeled after fictional characters from the movie.</P>
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<P>The LEGO Group regrets that the product has caused the members of the Turkish cultural community to interprete it wrongly, but point out that the design of the product only refers to the fictional content of the Star WarsTM saga.</P>
<P>A few media have reported that the product is being discontinued due to the mentioned criticism. This is, however, not correct.</P>
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<P>As a normal process products in the LEGO Star WarsTM assortment usually have a life-cycle of one to three years after which they leave the assortment and may be renewed after some years. The LEGO Star WarsTM product Jabba’s Palace 9516 was planned from the beginning to be in the assortment only until the end of 2013 as new exciting models from the Star Wars universe will follow.</P>
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<P>마지막 문장만 요약하면.. </P>
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<P>언론에서 언급한 문제로 제품이 중단 되었다고 하는 보도는 사실과 다르다.</P>
<P>레고 스타워즈 제품은 대략 1~3년 주기로 생산되고 있으며 9516 제품도 마찬가지로 2013년 생산중단에 처음부터 기획하고 있었다. </P>
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<P>라는군요.</P>
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<P>결론은 생산 중단은 사실이네요^^</P>
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첫댓글 13년도에 중단한다면 14년도까지 제품을 팔겠군요.^^
스타치고는 빨리 중단하네요~
어쨌든 생산중단이군요..ㅎㅎ 좀 빠른 감이 있긴하네요~~ㅎㅎㅎ
영문이라 설득력 100%네요
1개 구입해두니.......단종소식에 무감각해지네요........ㅋㅋ
영문을 보니.... 곧 북한과 정전협정에 들어가겠군요..
아쉽네요. ^^
구관이 명관이군요...역시 옛날것이 좋다는...^^