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In lugnet.admin.database, kbracey@acorn.co.uk (Kevin Bracey) writes:
> > 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 and see. :) Monkeys with their actual removable
> > minifig hands are actually closer to minifigs (in this way) than skeletons
> > are...heh heh. Ahhh, for the love of mayhem. :)
>
> 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.
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)?
http://www.lugnet.com/fibblesnork/lego/guide/castle/minifig/femalecastle-
4.html
So by this rationale, a skeleton is not a minifig then in your book?
What about the original minifigs? What TLG called LEGO Mini-Figures(tm)?
They had minifig heads, but old-style armless torsos and Charlie Chaplin
feet.
--Todd
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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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