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> Shifty Brick minifigs come without their hands attached. You have to put these
> on yourself (if you are missing hands, look carefully inside the other bricks
> as the hands are small enough to get lost in them) and some hands are very
> interesting colours (e.g. blue!). You also get to assemble your horse from 3
> pieces (head, left side, right side).
I've been mixing and matching and found the figs to be very compatible with
LEGO. I bought to small pirate sets and found the figs to be as follows.
HATS: Very rough. The tricorns are much flatter than the LEGO equivalent and
to not have the slot for the feather. They are much more roughly moulded and
have a moth-eaten look to them (which is not bad for pirates, I guess). I
have one in brown and one in black. They fit heads (either shifty or LEGO)
slightly more tightly than lego.
The pirate headskarf is ugly and oversized, but you might not notice at a
distance. The tail is cut off and the hat sits higher on the head.
HEADS: The printing is bad. They look cartoonish compared to the LEGO
version (and that's saying something). At arms length, not to bad, and
across a room you wouldn't notice. But up close, urggg.
TORSOS: Are pretty much why I bought the sets. They are a good copy of the
LEGO originals, (one torso was missing one colour in the printing, but if
you look quickly you don't notice). You can mix and match arms (and I assume
hands, though the Shifty hands have a different wrist anglt) with LEGO. LEGO
is slightly tight in a Shifty torso, Shifty slightly loose in a LEGO one,
but not unusable in either case. Shifty have a penchant for coloured hands
(blue x2 and white for my three piratic types).
My redcoat torso equiped with red LEGO arms (against Shifty white originals)
is, I think, indestinguishable from the real thing.
LEGS: The studs on top are shorter than LEGO's, but still longer than
standard. They grip well. The shortfall is the funny colours, and, when not
connected to studs, the legs angle in toward the ankles.
ACCESSORIES: Chrome cutlasses and Chrome pistols. Pretty good. The
accessories are very close to LEGO.
Cheers
Richie
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