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Re: MiniFig Ponderings?
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:22:15 GMT
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Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Tom McDonald wrote:
> > Jim Baker writes:
> > > Incidently, the modern direction of Lego, with ever more action-oriented
> > > sets, underscores a crucial failing: minifigs suck as action figures.
> > > They are far better as symbolic placeholders than as dolls, which is
> > > what real action figures really are.
> > *wrbrldrbl*wrbrldrbl*wrbrldrbl* (head shaking sound fx)
> > That was a bit of a wet slap, albeit, IMO, a correct one. Don't forget to
> > nicely .dear-lego your point Jim. Maybe that'll wake a few TLG folks up!
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> I'm not so sure we want Lego action figures. Chances are, if they give
> up on minifigs, they'd use some other existing doll for the action
> figures -- and the choices are Scala and Belleville.
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> In other words, *oowhuwhuwhuwhuwhuhuhu* (body shuddering sound fx :-)
I appreciate it when other do what I call "bodymonopoeia" :)
I guess I should have been clearer: I don't think TLG is ready to retire
minifigs so I thought such a message might get them back on the minifig track.
But speaking of track, if there was any other new evidence other than Town Jr.
that TLG was ever headed down that "play-oriented only" track, it would be
trains.
I hope they don't abandon minifigs. I don't have the room to build things for
the technic figs like I've done for the mini's.
-Tom McD.
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| (...) On the subject of Town Jr... Do you consider 6452 to be Junior? I can't quite make myself see it as anything else than good for parts :) The only Jr thing is the 1*2 brick with technic peg sticking out - that should've been a 1*2 Technic brick (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I'm not so sure we want Lego action figures. Chances are, if they give up on minifigs, they'd use some other existing doll for the action figures -- and the choices are Scala and Belleville. In other words, *oowhuwhuwhuwhuwhuhuhu* (body (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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