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Hi Joshua, I've the admin right to the lugnet database, too, but have not much time to enter the missing sets/pictures to the database recently, and this seems to be continuing for a while. I have more than 600 pics (of sets already in database but (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) <big ol' snip> (...) Hmm. I am uncomfortable with the term "discovered". Let's say I recently _entered_ them. (...) There are the original "Universal" building sets, from the very beginning of LEGO releases. Surf here for more... (URL) see (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) According to your arguement, any brick (not plate) can be classified as a minifig. You did not limit the definition of "torso", and all bricks can accept minifig legs. Maybe the only qualifier should be the single long neck stud. (emphasis on (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Well, since it's for the FAQ, gimme the days-long explanation. :-, (...) Ooh, good exception. Thanks. (...) Cool, thanks for the analysis, Todd. Should I quote the list verbatim with a note of when the sample was taken, or will there be a (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Generally, they mean quite a bit, but there are a lot of exceptions. The full answer can take days to answer. :) (...) Yeah. (...) No, some are 1 digit, some are 2, some are 3, and at least one is 6 digits (that's the soccer starter set: (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Yup. (...) Ah, nice one. I think I would say that that was a minifig, because of the standard head. (...) The torsos still accept the new-style legs though, don't they? Do they have long neck studs, or did the torso just have a normal stud on (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Ahh, good points. Both the "2x2 Cylinder Brick" and the "2x2 Quarter-Circle Brick" are 1 brick tall, but a cylinder (in geometry) actually has a volume and a circle (in geometry) has only circumference to speak of. This is an anomaly to be (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.database)
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Isn't there any web site that has generally agreed on names for all the lego bricks? (Or even better - one where the names are being decided and we can all argue over them <grin>) Simon (URL)I think I see what happened -- the source of the confusion (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.database)
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In your terminology, though, I'd argue that they should not be called circles! Circles have no thickness. What will you do if TlG brings out the following bricks... a 4 radius cylinder with a 2 radius cylinder subtracted b 4 radius cylinder with a 3 (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I think I see what happened -- the source of the confusion is in the terminology -- and I made the same mistake that Tom made when I read his post (I just saw the words "quarter-circle" and "white" and glossed over the "4x4" part). The (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Star Wars change: Change to "Y-Wing"
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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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