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Re: The Sad State of Minifig Box #1
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Fri, 1 Oct 1999 08:21:05 GMT
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Well, the box came to me (first person to get it), with many old, beat up,
missing lots of parts type torsos (after all, Todd originally said these
were parts he was considering throwing away), so some of those in the box
are probably the originals. I dumped in 20-30 everything-but-legs
minifigs, and some complete minifigs. Maybe I should have dumped in more
legs ;-)
If the box is still drastically short of legs by the time I get it again,
I'll dump more legs in than anything else. But I don't really have spare
hands :-/
The fun thing (and problem) about minifigs is the mix/match syndrome - I do
it all the time, so can't even remember the colors of legs most of the
torsos are supposed to have. So putting "true" complete minifigs is a
problem for me. If I add legs, they'll be a mix of colors.
I agree that the condition of a box should not deteriorate. Almost every
brick I own would be considered near mint to most people, simply because I
snap them together for storage, and keep them in drawers, rather than
dumping them in buckets/tubs and rattling them against each other all the
time. It's kind of depressing when the best pieces I get out of a JBox are
quite scratched, as I know they'll glare out in whatever model I put them
in, unless I spend a long time polishing them.
But the boxes have turned out well anyways, I've grabbed parts I would have
never put on my Wants page ;-)
Ed Jones wrote:
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> In lugnet.market.jambalaya, Doug Finney writes:
> > I can understand the partial minifigs - if somebody wants a black witch hat
> > but has no use for an entire witch it's silly for them not to leave the rest
> > of the fig in the box. But if people do trades like taking all the non-yellow
> > hands and replacing them with baseball caps and lifejackets the overall
> > quality of the box will quickly suffer.
> >
> > Maybe there should be an informal rule about not canibalizing complete figs?
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> I have no problem with canibalizing complete figs for legs, heads, torsos or
> headgear, I do it to my own minfigs all the time. But I found it incredibly
> rude to take hands and arms and not replace them.
--
Tom Stangl
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| (...) I am relieved to hear this. I, mistakenly, thought that someone had taken good condition pieces and replaced them with the "many old, beat up, missing lots of parts type torsos". My faith in the participants of Jambalaya is restored. (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| (...) I have no problem with canibalizing complete figs for legs, heads, torsos or headgear, I do it to my own minfigs all the time. But I found it incredibly rude to take hands and arms and not replace them. (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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