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Re: Reinventing the minifig
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:17:49 GMT
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cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.eduSPAMLESS
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Thomas Main wrote:
> 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,
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?
> even six stud wide trains are not realistic to figs,
> etc. People have also stated that minifigs aren't realistically
> porportioned.
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> 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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| (...) How true. Minifigs are just as unenvironmental as people! LEGO should fix that... (But of course it won't) Some ten years ago I experimented with a four-seated car (two in back, two in front), but I was just a kid, I didn't care much about (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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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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