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Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo
Date: 
Fri, 6 May 2005 19:43:51 GMT
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> (Skip boring blah, blah to pics
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=185  HERE>
> 
> Well, the way I saw it, I was faced with 4 options:
> 
> + Literally cut off Thomas' and the others' faces and glue them to my
> current
>  MOC cast.  That way they would all be, at least, ALL LEGO. (I can hear
> RobH
>  cheering for that option in the background already!)


Works for me.  I actually thought about doing that when I saw them in the
prerelease photos!  But now that you have one in your hand, how does the
size of the face compare to, say, a 4x4 radar dish?

Rob



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  Re: 8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
 
(...) They are five studs in diameter. The faces I used on my 6 wide Thomas characters were just shy of 4 wide. I think that these new faces would be virtually impossible to use on 6 wide trains and have the results look good (except, perhaps, for (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)

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  8 Wide LEGO Thomas! (pics)
 
Well, my prayers have been finally answered (sorta:-) I had gotten into the habit of firing off an email to Brad Justus every 6 months or so when he was still heading up LEGO Direct begging for TLG to get a license for producing Thomas the Tank (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX) !! 

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