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| (...) <snip> Personally, I always thought of Barbie as having too long legs w/relation to her head, not the other way around. (Then again, Barbie is SO totally skewed that it's hard to tell. ;-) -Shiri XFUT .o-t.fun (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Ah... I missed that one. Still, the same thing applies -- there's proto-minifigs as far back as 1975.... (...) :) Wow. I just barely pre-date the proto-minifig. Wow, this discussion was dangerous -- I just remembered that I love the little (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| (...) The minifig as we know it was a descendant of the 'stiffs' from 1975 [1](?). In 1978, 'Legoland' was created which was both the begining of town and of Castle as we know them. The minifig was also used with the maxifigs as both a baby, and as (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| (...) Act'lly... (URL) the proto-minifig, as Todd and/or Suz commented below. (...) Well... maybe... Dave, tho', might've just gotten one of the baby-minifig sets before the Classic Space sets, so that would explain why he saw them first. -Shiri The (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| (...) at (URL)) But, do those sets from 1979 really predate the space sets from 1978? I do see a minifig-as-baby in <set:208>, also from 1978, but there's no examples of either before that. My conclusion is that the minifig was developed to be a (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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