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Re: Heraldry for future sets:
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Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:41:07 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Eric Kingsley writes:
> In lugnet.dear-lego, Jeff Johnston writes:
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> > How about taking a hint from what they're apparently doing with the Soccer
> > Team Bus sets?
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> > In other words, producing a set of minifigs with blank torsos and blank
> > shields, and then providing several sticker sheets to customize them.
> > (Sort of like what they had in the Yellow Castle, except with enough
> > stickers to make the knights all one type.)
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> Personally I really don't like stickers. I see what you mean in terms of
> customizing the torso's and shields to your liking but I would prefer printed
> torso's and shields to stickered ones.
I wonder if a lot of people felt that way, and that's why they moved to
preprinted torsos?
> I guess one option would be to print one Herald on the torsos and shields that
> is smaller than the stickers and then have stickers to cover that herald if you
> want to customize the fig.
I would just make the stickers the size/shape of the minifig torso or
shield itself - probably the easiest.
> How about maybe selling figs just as they do now with a couple different
> heralds (LEO and the BULL) and then selling separate sticker sheets for
> customizing?
That'd work. (In fact, I've given some thought to designing custom
torso & shield stickers for my 'figs...I may need to haul out that inkjet
printer and test a few things.)
> > > If TLC produced, say, a $5 set of 4 knights, each with their own, cool,
> > > UNIQUE coat of arms, how many sets would YOU buy?
> >
> > Depends on if they had "cool, unique" faces or not. The more generic the
> > faces & bodies are, the more I'd want to buy...
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> I agree with you 100% on that one. You can only have so many guys with sewn on
> eye patches before it looks rediculous.
Yep. Even the 'smirking knight' is too much really...he works great as a
single 'fig (I liked the face enough to use it for the Fox) but dozens of
him are too much. (Although he does look quite good on some of the
fancier pirate bodies...) The older heads - like the bearded one I used
for the "Jeff minifig", the bushy-moustached-and-stubble guy, or even the
goofy-droopy-moustache guy - are more generic and therefore much more use
to me.
> Unless you make up a story line about
> how it is a ritual to poke out an eye to get into a certain division. Of
> course that division couldn't be archers because I think depth perception is
> required.
Well, they *could* be archers, they just wouldn't be very good at
it...actually, it makes me wonder why Eyepatch Guy is manning a
catapult, too.
I'd find the Bull heads much more useful if they didn't have silver eyes,
either. Just something kinda wrong about that...
Hey, how come nobody in LEGOland ever loses their *right* eye?
J
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