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There's currently a discussion happening in lugnet.starwars concerning a
minifig scale Millenium Falcon model. It seems to me that a lot of
people are hampered by "minifig scale." I believe Gary Istok has
mentioned that he doesn't even use minifigs because without them he has
more freedom in scale modeling and can use his non-minifig scale windows
and doors. Various people have lamented that Lego cars can't seat two
figs side-by-side, even six stud wide trains are not realistic to figs,
etc. People have also stated that minifigs aren't realistically
porportioned.
One solution to all these problems might be reinventing the minifig.
How about a redesigned minifig whose legs took up only one stud (each
leg being a half stud wide) in width, one stud in height (keeping a hole
in back), regular studs on top of legs (maybe slightly wider in diameter
to regular studs for extra grip, like friction pegs), torso in
porportion to the new legs (total width of minifig with artms should be
two studs), smaller head and hair pieces so both head/hair could fit in
helmets, caps, hats)?
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Thomas Main
main@appstate.edu
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| (...) Agreed, but consider that our beloved minifigs started off as toddlers/babies(!) to less incorrectly scaled "parents". See: (2 URLs) makes everything scaled to minifigs actually scaled to toddler/baby/half height. Taking this further, trains (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) One minifig per car is pretty realistic. True, American cars have more than one seat, but if you look at the cars during rush hour they are all carrying one minifig...I mean person. Chris Maybe LEGO is more real than we think? (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Thomas Main wrote in message <37028270.8968AE2E@a...te.edu>... (...) I think people are losing sight of the fact that LEGO is directed at "kids" who generally speaking wouldn't care if the sets are realistically proportioned or not. In any case (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) I don't considered myself hampered by it. I was merely assuming, as has been true with all past themes that I know of, that TLG is doing all the sets from one theme in one particular scale. Maybe this won't be the case. If it isn't, I won't be (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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