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Re: Star Wars fixes
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Thu, 6 May 1999 22:27:41 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> 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. Plain skeleton heads don't
> count, either -- is Gasgano basically just a skeleton head with some other
> weird/common parts?
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> Sebulba -- what an unfortunate problem. So much like those dorky Mega-
> Blocks aliens -- all one piece and (worse) all one color. Opinions on
> whether Sebulba should be recognized as a "Figure"?
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 count of
special pieces without any other special pieces counted? A possible
solution would be to add a 2nd field for number of large non-human
figures under which one would count R2-D2, Sebulba, Horses, Sharks, etc
(but not kittens, birds, snakes, bats etc). Then more complete data for
a reasonable category of special parts is being presented, and a good
solid line can be drawn. This is also a reasonable category to count
since there are standard retail sets which are esentially just
mini-figs. There aren't any standard retail sets which contain just one
other type of piece (other than bricks) (well, ok, there is base plates,
perhaps that category could be included, with a text field for
description of types).
--
Frank Filz
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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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| (...) "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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