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Re: Playing with scale
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Mon, 6 Jan 2003 17:54:42 GMT
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> These are becoming "cartoon scale" - not really a scale at all, but a style.
Yeah... I actually intentionally did that. To keep the "correct" scale, the
cars would be 2x6, not 2x4. The shorter length makes them taller and
"stubbier" somehow, and they remind me of the "Micro Machines" cars that my
little brothers used to collect in the early 1990s. I thought it added a
bit of whimsy, and I'm glad that came off. (Funny you should call it a
"cartoon" style, since I am also a cartoonist.) :)
> Still very bricky. I can't get over how the SW minis are so not bricky.
I've got some on the way from lego.com right now. :) I want to see how they
did what they did; maybe I'll get some good ideas. Looks like they have
some new pieces, no?
Sean
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| (...) The SW minis are tasty little parts packs - 80 pieces for $4, and half of them rare colors in basic usable parts. Not new pieces but rare ones. For example: orange 1x2 plates, dk.red and dk.blue 1x2 and 1x2 center stud tile (and some little (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
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| Hey. I had to look at the MTA bus first! * These are becoming "cartoon scale" - not really a scale at all, but a style. Still very bricky. I can't get over how the SW minis are so not bricky. -Erik (...) exactly from my home, to Target (College Pt), (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
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