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Re: legos biggest mistake is...
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lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs
Date: 
Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:29:03 GMT
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In lugnet.build.minifigs, Jonathan Wilson wrote:

selectivly compressing the minifig. The minifig is too wide for its
height and that makes it impossible to truly build to minifig scale.

This is hardly a mistake, and even if it is, there's no way it could be
considered TLC's biggest mistake.

Does anyone know the reason for the selective compression?

Like Matthew said, they're cute.  That's not a flip answer, it's the reason
-- the infant-like dimensions of minifigs appeal to children.  True-scale
small people are not very appealling, and actually look funny.

Most dolls/figures are made out-of-scale, even if they appear to be
more-or-less accurate.  The most obvious way to check this is to look at
the size (height) of the head vs. overall height.  All toy figures will
have heads that are too big, including Technic figures, Barbie, and classic
GI Joe.

Steve



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

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