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Subject: 
Re: ordinery vs. action minifigs
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lugnet.castle
Date: 
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:01:58 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Steve Bliss writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Aaron West wrote:
> > 
> > > ... Majisto (not too ordinary) ...
> > 
> > I've got to disagree about Majisto.  All the "specialness" on Majisto are
> > parts. Just parts, parts that can be removed from one fig, and used on another
> > fig. Without the wizard's hat, beard, cape and wand, Majisto is just a blue
> > peasant. No special torso, just a reuse of an existing pattern (umm, the
> > peasant torso did exist before the big M, right?).  In my mind, this makes
> > Majisto the *best* prepackage character/minifig LEGO has ever made.
> > 
> > That, and the fact multiple Majisto-figs make sense in a Castle setting.

I took my extra majisto figs and turned them into traveling merchants and
highwaymen using extra hoods and hats from wolfpack and forestmen sets.

I agree that the majisto fig offered several creative opportunities.  My
current favorite is taking majisto's beard and putting it on an extra Royal
King-looks good w/ the gold crown ...Now I have an aging monarch (for variety)
and a few fueding siblings.

> Yeah, I tend to agree that Majisto's torso is rather good for making peasants--
> although I still wish I had more other colors of the peasant torso

I agree 100%



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  Re: ordinery vs. action minifigs
 
(...) Yeah, I tend to agree that Majisto's torso is rather good for making peasants-- although I still wish I had more other colors of the peasant torso... offhand, I can only think of grey, green and blue tunic torsos... I think the best would be (...) (27 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)

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