Quoted from RTS:Sure, but some did come that way.
My point is that if you see an SE with lit side panels, it is not necessarily an after market mod. Heighway shipped some SE's with them already installed.
Just to clarify, I have one of the earliest prototypes and it has the lit side blades, it's my understanding that the early test games had them, then they were cut from the production Standard models, but included on the LE's that were made.