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NO! NONONONO!
NEVER!
I *love* the minifigs! Don´t change them!
--Tobias
"No! I talk to my minifigs every day and they talk back! Don´t ever say
that they are only plastic bricks!"
> There's currently a discussion happening in lugnet.starwars concerning a
> minifig scale Millenium Falcon model. It seems to me that a lot of
> people are hampered by "minifig scale." I believe Gary Istok has
> mentioned that he doesn't even use minifigs because without them he has
> more freedom in scale modeling and can use his non-minifig scale windows
> and doors. Various people have lamented that Lego cars can't seat two
> figs side-by-side, even six stud wide trains are not realistic to figs,
> etc. People have also stated that minifigs aren't realistically
> porportioned.
>
> One solution to all these problems might be reinventing the minifig.
> How about a redesigned minifig whose legs took up only one stud (each
> leg being a half stud wide) in width, one stud in height (keeping a hole
> in back), regular studs on top of legs (maybe slightly wider in diameter
> to regular studs for extra grip, like friction pegs), torso in
> porportion to the new legs (total width of minifig with artms should be
> two studs), smaller head and hair pieces so both head/hair could fit in
> helmets, caps, hats)?
>
> --
> Thomas Main
> main@appstate.edu
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