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Kevin Johnston wrote:
> Anyway, this is all pretty obvious, isn't? The death of the mini-fig
> appears to me to be written on the wall. It's difficult to imagine lego
> maintaining two small figure scales indefinitely. Lego seems intent on
> competing with action figures more directly, and the slightly larger Creator
> figs allow for that.
I'm not sure I'd place that much significance on the Creator figures.
I'd note that they look to be a similar scale to Fabuland (though
perhaps with not quite the charm of Fabuland). Fabuland came and went
during the life of minifigs. In fact, TLC has experimented with a
variety of figures for the younger crowd, and some of those experiments
have produced nice lines of sets (take a look at Fabuland, while
somewhat "juniorized", the set designs tend to be attractive, provide a
not absolutely trivial building experience, have good play value, and
provide the rest of us with some interesting pieces in different colors
from what we might see in a System set). I've bought a bunch of the
Mickey Mouse sets for the parts, and from what I can see of the Creator
sets, I'll be buying a bunch of them also. I even see the new figures as
a bonus, unlike the Fabuland figures, the Creator figures might be
somewhat useable in a Castle setting as a bunch of ogres or something.
Seeing them, I really wish Wookie had been done as a Creator type
figure. Perhaps Hagrid will be done so.
I think the minifig is highly likely to be here to stay. Minifig scale
is a decent compromise between a scale at which you can provide a
detailed figure which has some articulation, and can interact with
constructions (by holding things, standing on things, etc.), and the
ability to actually lay out a town, or have a train which doesn't look
absolutely absurd. While Belville and Scala allow nicely detailed
figures, they are extremely limited in the capability of building a
scene (and unless I missed something, the only vehicle between either
set is the Belville carriage, though some of the Technic vehicles can be
made to hold a Belville figure).
Frank
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| (...) You don't have dogheaded monsters in your castle set-ups Frank? Shame on you!! It looks like Creator heads have the same connection as Belville, Technic and Fabuland (and Scala?): see (URL) With a bit of Brasso/craftknife work on the torsos (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Har, I thought of something much worse when I first saw the Creator figures: Lego could concievably re-issue a bunch of Star Wars vehicles in the new Creator scale, say, starting three years from now (as the Episode II sets are starting to (...) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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