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Aren't those 1978 sets? KL (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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Not according to the LUGNET database. But I'll be the first to admit that that was my only source. At any rate, those *are* the first sets to include minifigs. If it was 1977 or 78 when they were released is still up for debate. So to answer the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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Those sets show up first in the 1978 catalog. also if you look at the 1978 NL catalog there are many sets with minifigs. I don't think we can pin it down to one minifig, but I believe 1978 was the year. KL (...) Released (...) version (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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I'll agree to that. One of my favoriter sets from that year was 208 Mother with Baby Carriage, featuring a MaxiFig and a minifig. I distinctly remember getting 885 Space Scooter and 889 Radar Truck that year, in Toronto at a Kiwanis International (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) <snip> The Ultimate LEGO book says they came out in 1978. Related fact: LEGO says 2.3 billion minifigs have been made since 1978. That's one minifig part(head and hair, pants, torso) for every person on earth! Alan (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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thanks, all for the great responses! great information, too! my first articulated mini-fig was a pirate 5 years ago, but i still have the "face & limb-less ones" from an old police station set. (...) ah-ha! and even the "missing link" i was looking (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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Alan: (...) Then a lot of peopl must have died recently. I have a vague memory of reading that we are now more than six billion people on this planet. But it is still a lot of minifigs. Play well, Jacob (who feels sorry for those who haven't got a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) part(head (...) I meant one person gets a pair of legs, another gets the torso, and another gets the head, so nobody gets a complete minifig.(There would be nearly a billion minifig parts, though) Alan (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) says (...) A billion parts left over, that is. (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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