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Re: legos biggest mistake is...
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lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.minifigs
Date: 
Mon, 19 Jun 2000 02:48:04 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Miller writes:
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.

Act'lly...
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=215-1
...shows the proto-minifig, as Todd and/or Suz commented below.

My conclusion is that the minifig was developed to be a grown-up figure, but
was also adopted (no pun intended) for use a child with the old-style big
people.

Well... maybe...

Dave, tho', might've just gotten one of the baby-minifig sets before the
Classic Space sets, so that would explain why he saw them first.

-Shiri
The minifig is older than me! Gosh!



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(...) Ah... I missed that one. Still, the same thing applies -- there's proto-minifigs as far back as 1975.... (...) :) Wow. I just barely pre-date the proto-minifig. Wow, this discussion was dangerous -- I just remembered that I love the little (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)

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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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