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Re: Speculation on the nature of minifigs (moved from Dear LEGO)
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Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:16:42 GMT
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Robert M. Dye wrote:
> This is an attempt to move this thread over to where IU meant to post it in
> the first place.
>
> I see it has come up (again) in another thread that the LEGO minifigs have
> no homes. I think it is long past time to put this whole question to rest.
>
> Where DO minifigs live? HOW do they live? Where do they come from? What is
> their nature?
>
> Let us begin with what we know:
>
> 1. Minifigs appear to be able to eat. We know this because the Pizza
> Restaurant seems designed to cater to them, as wellas the McDonalds. (Well,
> we don't really "know" that they eat the pizza, but a minifig chef prepares
> it, so it is a safe ppresumption he could eat it, too. And the minifigs are
> known to use the drive in at Mcdonalds.)
>
> 2. Minifigs can be injured. This is shown by the presence of a stretcher in
> the the Res-Q ambulance. So we know that when a fig is injured, it has to be
> taken somewhere, rather than cannibalized for oarts on the spot, a la the
> Borg.
>
> 3. There do not appear to be any places for figs to relieve themselves. Now,
> on the ground, you could argue that we have just not SEEN any yet, but we
> have seen ALL of the spaceships, and they do not appear to have any
> restrooms. I will grant that this might be to make them nastier warriors,
> but it seems a bit much to endure on a lengthy voyage. I would have to
> conclude that they don't have bathrooms because they have no use for them.
>
> 4. Minifigs appear to have at least rwo genders, male and female, which
> implies reproduction of some sort, but children minifigs appear to be the
> same size as adult minifigs. It is not clear if this similarity in size
> actually exists in infancy, but if this is so, a traditional birth canal
> sounds a little too painful to posit. (On the other hand, if their original
> sin was much more serious than ours...playing with "Megablocks," for
> example...then the more serious pain of childbirth may be justified.)
>
> What else do we know, exactly, so that we may draw conclusions?
>
> Rob
> > 3. There do not appear to be any places for figs to relieve themselves. Now,
> > on the ground, you could argue that we have just not SEEN any yet, but we
> > have seen ALL of the spaceships, and they do not appear to have any
> > restrooms. I will grant that this might be to make them nastier warriors,
> > but it seems a bit much to endure on a lengthy voyage. I would have to
> > conclude that they don't have bathrooms because they have no use for them.
>
> There are bathrooms on some of the trains.
>
> In lugnet.dear-lego, Robert M. Dye writes:
> > I see it has come up (again) in another thread that the LEGO minifigs have
> > no homes. I think it is long past time to put this whole question to rest.
> >
> > Where DO minifigs live? HOW do they live? Where do they come from? What is
> > their nature?
> >
> > 3. There do not appear to be any places for figs to relieve themselves. Now,
> > on the ground, you could argue that we have just not SEEN any yet, but we
> > have seen ALL of the spaceships, and they do not appear to have any
> > restrooms. I will grant that this might be to make them nastier warriors,
> > but it seems a bit much to endure on a lengthy voyage. I would have to
> > conclude that they don't have bathrooms because they have no use for them.
>
> Well, Todd made a place for them space guys... shown in Larry's pages, IIRC.
> I
> always put in at least one bathroom in my town houses...
>
> > 4. Minifigs appear to have at least rwo genders, male and female, which
> > implies reproduction of some sort, but children minifigs appear to be the
> > same size as adult minifigs. It is not clear if this similarity in size
> > actually exists in infancy, but if this is so, a traditional birth canal
> > sounds a little too painful to posit. (On the other hand, if their original
> > sin was much more serious than ours...playing with "Megablocks," for
> > example...then the more serious pain of childbirth may be justified.)
>
> LOL!
>
> > What else do we know, exactly, so that we may draw conclusions?
>
> We know minifigs never die. They only get really large boo-boos.
> (My memory deceives me as to where I've heard that... perhaps on Eric Brok's
> site?)
>
> -Shiri
OK as a professed LEGO Archeologist, and sometimes LEGO Anthropologist, LEGO...
minifigs first showed up on the planet several decades ago. They were a limbless
species (known by their Latin name of Minifigicus Stifficanus) that first evolved
circa 1973. They were a faceless, limbless species that didn't survive long
because of their handicaps. In 1977 a new species evolved called Minifigicus
Erectus, which developed arms, legs and faces. This species is very prolific, and
is still with us today.
Gary Istok
LEGO Professor Emeritus
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