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MiniFig Ponderings?
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Date: 
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 03:57:00 GMT
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Like the great Holy bag mystery here is another strange Lego observation.

Why do MiniFig legs have such long studs on top to attatch them to bodies?

What's wrong with Normal Studs? sure they'd be a bit weaker but it works OK
for the witch minifig.

Why break the standard in this one case?

Think of all the uses for minifig legs if you could stick em on anything
<exercise left for reader>.


Cheers
Tim



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  Re: MiniFig Ponderings?
 
Tim asked: (...) I've often been annoyed by this too. (...) Actually, Karim Nassar has come up with a great use: stick it the sutds into the bottom of a 2x2 slope brick and you've got a two-fingered hand perfect for a mech. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: MiniFig Ponderings?
 
Tim McSweeney wrote in message ... :Why do MiniFig legs have such long studs on top to attatch them to bodies? :What's wrong with Normal Studs? sure they'd be a bit weaker but it works OK :for the witch minifig. :Why break the standard in this one (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: MiniFig Ponderings?
 
Tim McSweeney wrote in message ... (...) They're longer because you need leverage to move the legs when they're new and stiff. Otherwise, you'd go to sit someone down, and whoops! Dislocated hips. The witch gets away with normal studs because she's (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)

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