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Re: Minifig torsos...
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 11 May 1999 22:40:17 GMT
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In lugnet.general, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) writes:
> On Mon, 10 May 1999 19:15:04 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) wrote:
> > In lugnet.general, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) writes:
> > > [...]
> > > I doubt that TLG would have redesigned their minifigs in 1998 just because
> > > they were working on an unfinalized deal with Lucasfilm, and they were
> > > thinking about ways to create Yodas and Chewbaccas.
> > 
> > Party pooper!  :-(
> 
> Just remember: I've got plenty of opinions, and many of them are wrong.

I think you may be right, though! -- I tried putting a few 1x2 bricks into a
couple of the new torsos, and while it seemed like it'd hold better, it sure
didn't seem to, just as you'd said.


> It's still interesting that the new torsos appeared in a limited-release
> 'theme' (the soccer sets).  I don't have any of those sets handy, I wonder
> if *all* the 'figs in those sets had the cross-hairs torso?

Another weird thing is that I saw one old torso and one new torso in the
same set a couple months ago!  :-o

--Todd



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(...) Just remember: I've got plenty of opinions, and many of them are wrong. It's still interesting that the new torsos appeared in a limited-release 'theme' (the soccer sets). I don't have any of those sets handy, I wonder if *all* the 'figs in (...) (27 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.general)

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