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(...) I ran out of time last night to get to that. S@H has lower 'w' as well. Now fixed. -- joshua (25 years ago, 8-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Personally, I have Four catagories: Humanoids, Characters, Animals, and The Created(1). Humanoids includes all Minifigs (including Jar-Jar) and Minifig-like figures, like Battle Droids and skeletons. Characters is sorta a catch-all catagory (...) (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) So the old Castle queen/maiden minfigs with 2x2x2 sloped bricks for dresses pass this test then, right (because they have a torso able to accept the standard leg-connection studs)? (URL) by this rationale, a skeleton is not a minifig then in (...) (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) What about X-wing? I don't have a relevant S@H catalog to check, but (URL) is pretty clear. Steve (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Personally, I see the acid test as the special torso<->legs connection studs. If it uses those, or has a torso able to accept them, then it's a minifig. (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Ahh, good work! (...) Hmm, probably because when it's singular it's most apt to appear in a title, as in "TIE Fighter" being the name, whereas when it's plural it's most apt to appear as an adjective-noun pair? (...) Okie dokie. Good work! (...) (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) That's a good reason too! Say, all this speculation about minifigs and what's natural/useful to track led me to go dig up my first Space set listing that I made when I was a kid. FWIW, here it is exactly* as it appeared around Christmastime of (...) (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Per the Shop at Home catalog, and the official reference at (URL) changed "Y-Wing" to "Y-wing" "TIE Fighter" / "TIE fighter" is tougher to gauge, as both www.starwars.com and the S@H catalog seem to have inconsistencies here. It almost seems that (...) (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Also, it's important enough at LSI that the count is listed in each set description in the LEGO Shop At Home catalog. This is actually what I suspected to be the original reason Lou tracked them, actually. -- joshua (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) I haven't seen it but have you seen the *ich* Mega Blocks gum ad?? Well, anyway, if I want to contribute pics for the Pause Database, I just post the URL here? Any specifications requested? Well then check (...) (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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In lugnet.admin.database, Todd Lehman writes: <clip> (...) Sebula should go in the recycle bin. (1) Ben Gatrelle (1) Of course he can always be restored from the recycle bin, if after the movie I think he's great. (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) What if you consider a minifig/figure that which is supposedly a sentient character? Another can of worms then, I know, but it's closer. Assuming this definition, it might be prudent to see the movie first to try and determine what fits into (...) (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) There's a real fuzzy line with varying levels of gray. A peg-leg pirate is maybe only 95% a minifig, and a skeleton only 80% a minifig. Gasgano might be 25% and the battle droids 40% and Artoo 10%. Threepio might be 90% but we'll have to wait (...) (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Well, because that's the way Lou started it when he started it. And it's a very popular thing (as in, it's something that a lot of people care about for some reason). Something special about minifigs. (...) Was hoping to (very long-term) get (...) (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Jar Jar is a minifig. The only thing non-minifig about him is his head. R2 and the eps1 battle droids should form a new catagory of robots or droids(I mean this in the Ldraw catagorization method) Ryan "Build or build not. There is no try." - Lego (...) (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.starwars)
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Arguably neither Jar Jar nor R2-D2 are minifigs.. minifigs have normal heads which rules out Jar Jar, no? And if R-D2 is one, so is the E1 droid, and so is a skeleton. (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) My vote would be to keep the count of figures as the number of mini-figs (of course for Scala this should be the number of dolls, etc). I would not count Sebulba as a figure. There's actually a can of worms here... Why do we have this one (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Gasgano has a non-skeleton, new minifig head, atop a "Space Chainsaw Handle" (1), with two pairs of limbs from the new driods (2). (...) I would count him as a figure, only if octopi, manta rays, and cats are too. Cheers, - jsproat 1. Or (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) "When I was a kid" :o) it used to be so simple. :) Well, anyway, the field says "Figures" and not "Minifigs." So if Gasgano is counted, the pit droids should probably count. But the pit droids can't count because they're just regular pieces. (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) If it's not an official piece count, it typically goes in as the number followed by a question mark, with some explanatory comments in an admin field. In many cases the source is also logged in the admin field even when it does come from the (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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