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Subject: 
Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
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Date: 
Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:36:23 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Shiri Dori wrote:

> In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
> > To answer Shiri's question of why people hate them? Well, Timmy is
> > reason enough :-)
> 
> Really? The truth? I don't think he's ALL that awful. I mean, yeah,
> he's weird looking and dopey, but brasso his shirt and stick the
> head under a helmet - it's not that bad! (At least it doesn't seem
> that bad). I don't know how the general opinion against Timmy came
> to be what it is today, but it seems pretty funny to me that
> everyone hates him so much... he never hurt you, ya know!

(Following up to a stale thread...)

Timmy was the first minifig with big white eyes.  Before Timmy, all
minifigs had tiny black dots for eyes, or in a few cases, a thin black
horizontal line (for a squinty face, I guess).  The white eyes were
just a huge change to have to swallow.

--
Susan Hoover
Houston, TX



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  Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
 
(...) And he has a *nose*. That's just plain weird on a minifig. Of course, you know what this means...big white eyes and a nose...Timmy must be an Indian! They're the only other minifigs with big white eyes and noses... J (26 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
 
In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes: <snip> (...) Well... what other sets are left, then? I mean, there's only about one more set that's over $10, that you don't "sort-of" like. So basically you just sort-of like all the sets, but dislike the theme (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)

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