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In lugnet.general, Thomas Main writes:
> People have also stated that minifigs aren't realistically porportioned.
Agreed, but consider that our beloved minifigs started off as
toddlers/babies(!) to less incorrectly scaled "parents". See:
http://www.kl.net/scans/0000/0269/0269-01.jpg
and
http://www.kl.net/scans/0000/0268/0268-01.jpg
Which makes everything scaled to minifigs actually scaled to toddler/baby/half
height. Taking this further, trains are roughly scaled to those carnival/train
museum kiddie trains (though covered), cars are actually pedal cars, and
helicopters are mall-ride sized. Lego bricks would scale to a cinder block,
and any 1-story Lego house would be about the real-life size of a playhouse.
As for modern-day "parents", I guess we can dress up a couple of Technic people
(look closely at the arms of the "parents" in the pictures). Though, how to
get a "mom" (since all Technic people are all men) is left as an exercise to
the reader. (^_^;;)
Unfortunately, using Technic people as adult scale just made a correspondingly
scaled Millennium Falcon's parts count sextuple. B-\
Hmmm...Technic people scaled trains.....
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| Hi guys, William Wong schreef: (...) Not quiet right in my opinion, because they first made the simple less detailed minifigs untill the late 70 tis, and started to make the minifigs with arms in reaction on the marketing and release of Playmobil. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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