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Subject: 
Re: Different/exchanged heads
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lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.pirates
Date: 
Tue, 20 Mar 2001 20:30:37 GMT
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In lugnet.build.minifigs, Steve Bliss writes:
In lugnet.build.minifigs, Mr L F Braun wrote:

In lugnet.build.minifigs, Tony Priestman writes:
But, speaking entirely hypothetically, if I had a bunch of soldier
torsos but no appropriate heads, and I wanted to sell them as complete
minifigs, and I didn't know much about LEGO, I'd stick any old head on.

  I don't know, even so, an Ice Planet Babe head would just be
  a little too weird.  All the same, read on...

It's not just a question of what builders do, but what players do as
well. If someone has a storyline involving a young lady who runs away to
sea in the Marines, they're gonna want a girlie soldier.

  With a microphone?  Maybe Britney Spears is taking fashion
  cues from Adam Ant.  She could probably sell a remake of
  "Strip" to the twenty/thirty/forty/fifty/sixtysomethings
  with very little effort.

The I.P.B. doesn't have a microphone.  She does have some big, hoopy
earrings...

The Ice Planet visor pieces included the commgear, so the IP faces escaped
the ignomy of having microphones painted on.

Unfortunately, LEGO hasn't reused any of those faces except "The Ice Planet
Kid" who resurfaced in Wild West and (briefly) in Divers.

yeah, he also appeared in the eXtreme team sets



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(...) The I.P.B. doesn't have a microphone. She does have some big, hoopy earrings... The Ice Planet visor pieces included the commgear, so the IP faces escaped the ignomy of having microphones painted on. Unfortunately, LEGO hasn't reused any of (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.pirates)

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