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the whole mini-fig arms as hands thing? now, am not putting down, they are a great way to make your mech more real. but who started it? (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it was Gla-Gla. (URL) I think it started here: (URL) N. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Really? I thought Sun Yun ((URL) did. At least that's the first place I saw them. (...) Not me, but I think it's a great way to get a quick hand that can hold a weapon securely. I used it here ((URL) Teacher: Define Sarcasm in five (\`--/') _ (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) <snip> (...) Look at the fingers. They are minifig arms. That's what Jacob's asking about I think. I don't know who started the minifig legs as hands thing. That one is lost to the ages unless someone here remembers. Mark (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Karim Nassar is credited with the minifig legs as hands. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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No way Karim started that I have been using minifigs legs as hands since the late 80's. And I am sure there are those that did it before me. (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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what happened to karim anyway? (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) While it is certainly likely that someone thought of the idea of using Lego minifig legs as arms before Karim, he is (to my knowledge) the first person who actually published his idea in the form of a website or online photos; as a result, the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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yeah, but what happened to hi? i love his stuff, but i haven't seen much of anything new since the dragon! (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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If anyone knows, please let me know as well. I used to hang out with him in NC, and he seems to have disappeared after he left NC State. -Anne (...) -- Conformity: Proudly (\`--/') _ _______ .-r-. serving painfully boring >.~.\ `` ` `,`,`. ,'_'~`. (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Hi! I don't normally post in .mecha, but I noticed this thread and had to say something. Back in the '80s I happened to receive as a gift a VHS tape with several Lego-animated shorts called "Lego Stories". There were a number of animated (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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well, it is obvious that they predate LUGnet, it hasn't been around for that long. it almost seems that the legs as hands as been around since the minfigs were intro duced... but i want to know when the 'arms' as fingers styles began they were made (...) (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Yeah, I think this is the case. I remember I first saw them on Gla-Gla's AV-98 model, and immediately stole the idea. (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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