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Re: ordinery vs. action minifigs
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:17:45 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.castle, Aaron West wrote:
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> > ... Majisto (not too ordinary) ...
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> 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.
Yes - the peasant torso had already been around for years, used in both the
peasants and in some of the forestmen (with the torso in green).
(Then, the torso made a reappearance in Dark Forest, but slightly
modified. Again in green, but with a shoulder strap added onto it
(and perhaps other very minor changes).)
I can't think of any other castle torso that was produced in three colors, except
for the plate armor torso (not chainmail), which was usually covered up
with the removable external armor. This torso's come in black, blue,
and red, so the venerable peasant torso is tied for first place among
castle torsos for the "comes in most colors" award. But I think the
peasant torso was used much more creatively. The armored torso
was just used to make different knights - roughly all equivalent. But
the peasant torso was used to make peasants, robin hood figures, and
wizards ... pretty cool.
Majisto was a GREAT figure in that, as Steve says, his specialness
was in his parts. His torso could be anything, another peasant or
whatnot. His beard was removable and could be put on other figures.
You can take off his hat and replace it with a hood or hair or any
other hat.
You could easily make a black Majisto with a black witch's hat and
the beard (using any old black torso - it's mostly hidden by the beard
anyway), or you can make a green Majisto with the green wizard's hats
that came in the freestyle sets a year or two ago. I love having a forestmen
wizard (actually she's a druidess).
Majisto was cool. Perhaps at the time I was a bit annoyed at the prospect
of having 10 duplicate blue wizards, but it didn't take me long to figure out
what to do them. More peasants, different looking wizards (young vs old),
etc. The polybag with Majisto pulling a wagon? We'll probably never
again see the peasant torso available so cheaply.
I wish they'd make the peasant torso in black, for an offical black Majisto
figure.
--
jthompson@esker.com
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) I currently have six Blue Wizards, two Green Wizards, one Black Wizard (Necromancer), a Druid, and two Liches as the magical forces in my kingdom. To make the Blue Archmage, I just replaced the plastic cape with an extra Darth Maul cloth cape. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Ok, big question: which freestyle sets came with the green wizard hats? I don't own any green ones, but I'd love to go hunt some down... were they offered in multiple freestyle sets? Or just one? Any idea on the current availability? Were they (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: ordinery vs. action minifigs
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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