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In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> selectivly compressing the minifig. The minifig is too wide for its
> height and that makes it impossible to truly build to minifig scale.
> Does anyone know the reason for the selective compression?
The minifig as we know it was originally a baby in another scale.
My guess is it was adopted as-is to make large scale building easier (ie,
reduce the overall scale) without designing/sculpting/tooling up machines for
new figs.
eric
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| (...) Was it? I seem to recall owning a few classic space sets before my sister got her Kitchen homemaker set. What was the release chronology? Some time ago there was a discussion of "first minifigs," but I can't locate it at the moment. Dave! (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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