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Re: legos biggest mistake is...
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lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs
Date: 
Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:48:32 GMT
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Lorbaat <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> wrote:
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.


Plus, they're cute.

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  Re: legos biggest mistake is...
 
(...) Uh, well, yeah. :D eric (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)

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  Re: legos biggest mistake is...
 
(...) 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 (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)

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