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"Hendo (John P. Henderson)" <hendo@valyance.com> writes:
> In lugnet.space, William R. Ward writes:
> > But I really don't see what's so bad about the helmets. Put a new
> > style helmet on a Classic Space (not Futuron) fig, and put him in a
> > Galaxy Explorer - I am pretty sure that unless you look really closely
> > you wouldn't even notice the difference.
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> Although I would be willing to accept Classic reruns with newer helmet
> styles, I seem to recall trying this years ago and discovering that with
> certain smaller-cockpit designs, a visored helmet would actually interfere
> with the closing of the cockpit (because the face of the visor sticks out
> just enough to touch a canopy in models where the pilot sits forward). I
> don't have any examples in my head of which models this could be a problem
> with, but I do recall experiencing it. ...Of course, as I have said, if
> they produced classic space sets as Legends, I would probably be looking at
> them for their pieces and wouldn't use the original design anyway. So it's
> all good to me. :)
I would omit the visors, since the originals didn't use them. Do you
think it would still have that problem with no visor?
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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| (...) Hmm. Well I think if you omit the visors then the problem I recall will be far less likely to occur, if at all. So as long as no one minds the extra-thick chin on the visor-able helmets, then that could be a solution. I am not certain they (...) (22 years ago, 26-Dec-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.dear-lego)
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