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Did the blank black head on Boba Fett last year bring us a step closer? I'm curious - what color facial printing do people envision being used on a black or brown head? I have trouble picturing anything that looks reasonable. Anyone ever do a (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Black printing would work ok on brown. A light color printing would have to be used on black. A question I've been thinking of now is what colors are heads available in? Unprinted: Black, brown, yellow, trans yellow, clear (any missing?) (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I have a number of unprinted Grey heads. From some Adventurers sets I think. Eric Kingsley (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That's a totally different story. The black Boba Fett head *shows through* the Boba Fett helmet/jet pack piece, creating the illusion of a visor, or darkness behind the helmet. (...) Me too. Black might be too dark, and white or other colors (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> (...) I'm pretty sure there are unprinted light gray heads in Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins: (URL) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Not totally different - the brown neck supposedly shows on the TIE pilot ((URL) A yellow neck would have spoiled the impression of an environmental suit. John #388 (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmm. If that's true (and I'm not saying it isn't, I don't have the figs, no matter how much I wish I did), I have two main questions: 1) Why does the Stormtrooper have a yellow head instead of a black or white one? Wouldn't yellow peeking out (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Where there not some red ones in an old indian set?? iirc... (...) Which sets are the trans dark blue found in? (...) Tamy (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The helmets are the same!?! If that is true it really sucks. <sigh> -Lord Insanity (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The URL is posted in .starwars and .year.2001 (don't have it handy) for scans of the pieces--they're big enough to tell that they're the same, just different colours and printing. LFB (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Heh, there's a little more to the story (maybe it was mentioned earlier, I don't know). One of the GMLTC members created a minifig of "himself" using a brown head brick, and stuck it on the GMLTC layout at the Kidvention. It didn't last very (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Unfortunately, just 5808... (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3A2549DE.69D8@m...ing.com... ... (...) One of the small Insectoid sets had a printed red head. Cary (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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I was about to become very pissed at TLC when I read this: (...) Until I read this part: (...) Now that's too funny. "Help, help, I'm being oppressed!" Jason (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) spoiled (...) no (...) white (...) effect (...) of (...) Tie pilots need a pressure tight environmental suit in case their hull is breached. OTOH having a pressure suit means that they wouldn't even need a pressurized cabin in the first place. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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Ah, my favorite subject ; ) (Look at my responses to the first and second times around for this for all of you newcomers to LUGNET - it is on a new 3rd round) (...) Hey folks, let's try to be civilized and use some better langauge. It is in the T&C. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) IIRC several expanded universe books describe TIEs as not having a pressurized cabin and that all life support is provided by the suit. Not that LEGO would be working off the books... John #388 (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) My point was that neither the TIE Pilots nor the Stormtroopers wear outfits that show any of themselves through to the outside. Stormtroopers' necks are covered by a black... uh, something. I'm pretty sure that on the costume it was a (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) What? I can't say pissed off? -Eric Cartman, _South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut_ eric (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmmm, this "Eric" Conspiracy gets curiouser and curiouser. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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"Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> wrote in message news:G4su41.1xL@lugnet.com... (...) enough (...) talking (...) Yup, it was. And Steve told the story. Pretty funny if ya ask me, and yes, it was a cool custom :-) -- Tim Courtney - (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, yes... I do believe that you can say "pissed off." You have the right to say it when ever and as often as you like. And for those individuals who attempt to stop you, I say step on them, 'step'on their little heads. Power to the 'pissed (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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To All, (...) in (...) who (...) Well, folks, I am not going to get into a contest whether this is a great term to use or not, but we here have had disscussions regarding langauge, and if I remember correctly, we were trying to make this a family (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You waste Scott’s time, you waist my time, you get head stepped on! don't make issue... we need not prolong this silly discussion. (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Who is this guy? And what's with stepping on heads? I know it's easy to step on the odd Lego head, but I think he's got a bit of nerve calling ++Lar silly.... ROSCO (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think it was the red android from UFO you are thinking of, not Insectoids. I think... Aaron (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If you ask me (and you didn't), I think the whole "no face" head thing adds up to one thing. They are clones! They have no personality or thought of their own. They are pawns of the Emperor, and I believe (PREDICTION) that the Royal Guards (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Methinks 'e should be pinching 'is face. I've had me 'ead squished before and it's not pretty. Pinch 'is face I says! Pinch!! Basil The Batlord (Race me!) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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Lorbaat wrote in message ... (...) Hmmm. Not touching *that* one with a 10 foot... er... pole. :-) Kevin (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 'Tis better to be pissed off than pissed on. Yesno? Aaron :o) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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Man, I was having a pretty ordinary day til I read that!! Haven't laughed that much for a while!! ROSCO Aaron West <maniac@netwebb.com> wrote in message news:G4trIK.3JF@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Why drag *me* into this? I've got enough trouble keeping up with the 4 brush wars I actually *started* this week, much less this Brown 25 debate which is totally uninteresting anyway (like I care whether tie fighter pilots wear pressurised (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) (URL) did Black Bob with white plastic model paint. SteveC 122 (URL) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If TLC produced figures like that, I almost guarantee there would be repercussions of a negative sort. eric (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, NASA sure seemed to think it was a good idea. Isn't the Space Shuttle the first NASA manned launch vehicle which the crew is NOT in pressure suits during launch (the Apollo missions at least started with the crew wearing pressurized (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ah yes, the minifig head color question rears its "ugly head" again. :-) Set # 215 (Big Head Red Indians) from 1977 has 1 old style (no hole in top) minifig head without printing. (This was the papoose head.) Set # 277 (Big Head Fireplace (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey! A Space Train! Sounds like a great idea of a theme cross-pollination to me!! (...) Please, No! Not the Eric! I'll behave, promise!. (...) Yep, definitely posted. Actually I was just referring to another thread (lost in the annals of (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey, Rosco, before your done eating your chicken and waffles, I’ve got a few words for you. There's a name for people like you. People who constantly attempt to be politically correct and organize their little bricks into size and colour (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It was a custom-painted (drawn, actually, methinks) face. Steve (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This discussion has it's night and day all right! Best not continued until we've all been up till 2AM sorting our bricks into those matching containers and have much less of importance to say. On that note, why am I here... Ladies and (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Aaron's right, this conversation shall be discontinued in this forum. My good mate Rosco and I shall communicate through e-mail rather than prolong this dying debate. He was good enough to not to bother any of you with his reply to my message. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Okay, here's a better one: LEGO has purchased a stake in Sanford's, a maker of art supplies, and is giving us blank yellow heads so that we will go out, buy art markers, and make our own minifig faces! At least, that's my theory, and I'm (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think that was a safety measure, in case the cabin seal failed during launch, when the astronauts couldn't do much except lie in the pressure couches and take it. I guess the current thinking is either (a) the cabin seals won't fail or (b) (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Actually that's "What? I can't say p-<BZZZZAP!>- AAGH!" (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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