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Re: Offer to Minifig collectors in Europe
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Date: 
Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:40:55 GMT
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In lugnet.build.minifigs, David Eaton wrote:
   In lugnet.build.minifigs, Christoph Bartneck wrote:
   I have a keen interest in developing a taxonomy of Lego Minifigures and within the framework of this project I am trying to take photos of all figures ever produced by Lego.

Out of curiosity, how are you defining a “minifigure”? There are a lot of things that are “sort-of” minifigs:



Personally, I drew a hard-and-fast line by saying that in order to be a minifig, it had to have a minifig torso (yes, thereby eliminating skeletons and LOM aliens and so forth as minifigs).

Also, are you looking to take into consideration other promotional minifigures?



DaveE

Dear Dave,

For now I would like to keep it open. Meaning that I do not want to exclude any minifigure. I believe that these exotic examples are also a rather small proportion of all figures and hence it might not matter that much. Would you be interested in collaborating in this project?

Best regards, /c



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  Re: Offer to Minifig collectors in Europe
 
(...) By a quick count at BrickLink, I found 235 "iffy" minifigs-- But I knowingly skipped Fabuland, Jack Stone, Technic, Belville, Scala, Galidor, and Bionicle. Knowing the above, I'd guess it'd be in the ballpark of 300-500 borderline minifigs? (...) (14 years ago, 12-Oct-10, to lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)

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  Re: Offer to Minifig collectors in Europe
 
(...) Out of curiosity, how are you defining a "minifigure"? There are a lot of things that are "sort-of" minifigs: (6 URLs) Personally, I drew a hard-and-fast line by saying that in order to be a minifig, it had to have a minifig torso (yes, (...) (14 years ago, 11-Oct-10, to lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)

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