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(...) at (URL)) But, do those sets from 1979 really predate the space sets from 1978? I do see a minifig-as-baby in <set:208>, also from 1978, but there's no examples of either before that. My conclusion is that the minifig was developed to be a (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Yep! Check out this post + replies... (URL) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Not to mention guys with long hair. (...) Actually, her armor shape was pretty good IMHO. It's much better than the queen's torso in the same set, or the "wenches'" torsos. (that's *not* to say I don't like them, on the contrary; but I don't (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) The only female I found "overtly sexy" was the islander babe. I'm not real familiar with the whole line up but that's the only one I can recall saying, "Boy... I don't know..." I don't really have a problem with red lipstick to represent (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Honestly, these things are just as ridiculous as the drawn-on breasts. (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Interesting...have you always had this problem with the female form? Is there a problem with kids knowing that women are shaped differently from men? (...) Why does a fig need long hair to be a woman? I know plenty of women with short hair. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) I think they're kinda funny. It's also important to note that these are developed in Europe, where they tend to be less prudish about such things. (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) These female figs that are overly, say, developed are digusting. I think we can all see that a fig with red lipstick and long hair(although not so now) is a woman. The new Castle sets looked promising, a female knight and all, but the shape of (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Adding my 2c When I found out it was not like the Sarco-Fig from Adventures...I only bought one. I might have bought 5 or more if it was better. My guess is they had a design a with rased Han,but would have made the Slave too big. Oh, well, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) I'll second this...when I saw the printed Han, I thought how lame it was, even a coffin lid would have been better. This is a great example of a piece that Lego should have made. James (24 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Why couldn't LEGO have done something similar? I like how you kept it two studs wide. --Bram (24 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) I object-ithink that the babe minifigs are ok.the feminisation means that gender differenciation is not made on the basis of hairlength and there may be long haired males.this is less sexist not more!...and good guys need not be on prozac-of (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Shiri, You should have ask for a blonde hairpiece instead of/in addition to the red one. Then you can have a portrait-fig. Rich (24 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Hair is definitely an issue. Rich brought this up at the fest; he makes new hair-pieces instead of complaining like me (us). ;-) (...) Ah, well, I was hoping to get one of these... but the Store was fresh out of kids' large shirts when I get (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) I aggree. The ice planet female is an example of a good female minifig. (24 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) of (...) mini- (...) avoid (...) because (...) Insectoid, (...) Rock (...) box/ (...) I would have to agree with you 100%. I'd even go so far as to add some of the Ninja, Adventurer, Castle, and Wild West minifigs to your list. I think (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) I think Lego's biggest mistake was making minifig darker. That is, some of those Aquazone-villain-thi...-minifigs, and the UFO uglies. That alone has kept me from buying those sets as gifts. I like variations on mini- fig heads, but I've got a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) slope. (...) other piece. I (...) K-Mark is my new store. Like it? ~Mark P.S. I have used Brasso to take paint off most everything, except for that slope thing... that's weird. (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.space)
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(...) Bah. Aves don't need no stinkin' armor. ;^) ~Mark (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.space)
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(...) shoulder- (...) Of course many of us aren't as wide as a mini-fig either (especially people like Denise of WAMALUG who can wear all those nifty LEGO shirts because she fits into a kids large.... boy, for those college days where possibly I (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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