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| | | Here's a topic or two.. I was just thinking... If you call the 'Town' scale people minifigs, what do you call the Technic scale people? - Maxifigs?? Anybody else remember the really _BIG_ people? pre-minifigs? they had arms like Technic, but were (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Different kinds of Figs —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | (...) Nope. See below. I call 'em Technic Guys. (Hopefully someday "Technic People" will become more appropriate. See other thread....) (...) THOSE were maxifigs. (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Different kinds of Figs —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | AFAIK, "maxifig" is the unofficial name for the "big people" of the 70's (the ones that you mentioned below), which are also called as "bendyarm"s. I haven't hear any approved term for technic figures, but I prefer calling them "technifigs"..:-D (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Different kinds of Figs —Nicole Dente
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| | | | | (...) don't forget that the women got to wear skirts made of ~60-degree sloping bricks! also, i loved the reversible hair pieces. sideburns? :) (...) i don't remember jointed-arm kids -- my only jointed-arm-figure set i can recall was homemaker (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Different kinds of Figs —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | (...) Eh, I was only born in 1976, but I've seen pics of 'em. :) Check out (URL) ... thats one of several of the sets that had the maxi-fig children. They were basically just like the adults, but shorter. Sean (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Different kinds of Figs —Duane Hess
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| | | | | | I think I still have a few of them hanging around in my "rare old parts" bin. I have no cluse where a got most of the parts in that bin, but they still come in handy. (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Different kinds of Figs —Richard Dee
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| | | | (...) lower (...) couple (...) I still have 2 of these, from set #565, Lunar Landing Site. Suggested uses for them were as Astronauts, and on the back were them as a film crew! ___...___ richard.dee@nospam.virgin.net remove nospam dot Web Site: (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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