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Re: to Minifig or not to Minifig ? (was: Star Wars fixes)
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lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 7 May 1999 06:21:36 GMT
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In lugnet.general, ben.gatrelle@nospam-bigfoot.com (Ben Gatrelle) writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Tom McDonald writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.database, Todd Lehman writes:
> > > In lugnet.admin.database, lar@voyager.net (Larry Pieniazek) writes:
> > > > Arguably neither Jar Jar nor R2-D2 are minifigs.. minifigs have normal
> > > > heads which rules out Jar Jar, no? And if R-D2 is one, so is the E1
> > > > droid, and so is a skeleton.
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> Who defined a minifig as having to have a normal head.
I don't think anyone did. Not that such a definition would stick anyway.
> And who's defining a
> normal head? Is darth Vader's head normal? Are only Classic yellow smiley
> heads normal? Is the ghost's black head w/o facial features a normal head?
>
> If we are not counting droids like R2-D2 and (hopefully C3-PO) as minifigs,
> can we count the white android that came from the Explorien series, or the
> red one from the Spyrius series, or the one from the Insectoid series?
I (personally) count the Explorien white android as being a minifig. And
if/when C-3PO comes out, I'll count him as a minifig too (reserving the right to
change sides, of course, when it actually comes out :). But I don't
(personally) think of R2-D2 as a minifig -- R2 is just a fig to me. And the pit
droids aren't even figs -- they're just collections of parts (to me). I do
count a skeleton as a minifig, but I'm not sure why -- I guess it's because the
skeleton is a dead minifig and still has a minifig head even if it doesn't have
minifig legs, torsos, or hands.
> IMO a minifig is a *character* that is based on the torso with two moveable
> arms, lower body that attaches at the waist, head that goes on top. Notice I
> said based on. I consider if the entity, for lack of a more generic term, has
> character or personality. In the SW universe, clearly we are meant to think
> of R2-D2 and C3-PO as people.
Yeah, I think of 'em as people too -- and thus as figures in the set. But I
don't think of R2 as a LEGO Mini-Figure(TM).
> In my book, all humans are minifigs. Ghosts, skeletons, Jar-Jar, droids with
> personality are all minifigs.
I think I count 'em based on their shape and interlocking fuction. Jar-Jar has
regular minifig hands and a regular minifig legs and torso, and only a weird
head.
> Monkeys, horses, dragons, and the pit robots are not, though depending on
> the movie, battle droids may be. They certainly fit the physical description
> given above, if not the sentient definition.
Y'know what's weird? In my mind, a skeleton is a minifig, but a battle droid
isn't (or is only very marginally so). But a skeleton is in many ways more like
a battle droid than a regular minifig.
I think it'll prove impossible to apply a Yes/No stamp on each character -- it's
a Huge Gray Area.
--Todd
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