>>I'm not sure which is cooler, the shorter link idea or the actual toy.
>
>The person that came up with makeashorterlink's concept deserves a
>medal.

YES!

>
>As for the model, well... I'm a little disturbed that "STAP"
>apparently stands for "Single Trooper Attack Pogostick", if the design
>sketches shown in one of the featurettes on the Episode I DVD
>set are to be believed. :)

Looking at the, uh, STAP (?!?), I'm puzzled. *IF* those two turbine-looking thingies (yessir, that's a technical term) are, in fact, turbines... then wouldn't the exhaust melt the droid's legs? Or rip them off entirely?

Thus I can only surmise that they're not turbines... but damned if they don't look like 'em!

--sofaspud
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