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Re: futuron
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Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:18:44 GMT
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"Scott E. Sanburn" wrote:
> Susan Hoover wrote:
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> > In lugnet.space, Nan Zhou wrote:
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> > > This was probably the best sub-theme ever. One thing that's weird
> > > though is that there are over 15 appearances by the yellow futuron
> > > minifig and only 2 by the red and black ones, the two red ones in
> > > the same set. What's up with that? And also does anyone have a
> > > 1974 Star Quest they want to sell or trade?
> >
> > Having read about 10 messages in this thread, I can't believe that no
> > one has explained the lack of red figs. Someone else (Tim?) mentioned
> > that he uses ST:TNG terminology, and that got me thinking... What if
> > we go back earlier than TNG, and use an original ST scenario? Y'see,
> > the redshirts are the ones who always get killed off, so perhaps what
> > we're seeing is just the two who were scheduled to be killed off in a
> > future episode, but the series ended before their numbers came up.
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> I don't know why either, I got my red one from the minifig pack, it was
> always interesting to wonder why that is. Maybe LC (TLG, TLC, LG, LC,
> etc.) had a special ranking system, and they decided to scatter them
> around. I wonder what the ratio of the Classic Space minifig colors are,
> and what minifigs are rare in that theme?
This is one that had my friends and I scratching our then-preadolescent heads way back when
too, and just when we thought we'd figured it out, the introduction of minifig packs really
threw off any attempt at calculation. General acclaim was that the black Classic minifigs
(not the diagonal-zipper type) were the rarest, and this seems to jibe with the experience of
everyone I've asked thus far. Blue seem second rarest because of their comparatively short
existence, and white, gold, and red in that order. But that could also be an artifact of
when I was collecting--I have tons of blue, but I know that's because my consumption was
heaviest between about 1983 and 1986. (Rarest of all must be the earliest sticker-torso
ones--but do we count those as different?)
Someone has put together an analysis of what figs were in what sets and how often each
appears, but without production run numbers one can't be sure. As far as divining TLG's
"roles" for minifigs, that's been a topic of conversation probably since before I first
stumbled across ATL on the VAX.
best
Lindsay
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| (...) See, now I have a completely different distribution of Classic Space 'figs. My collection started in '78, (with a sticker-torso red, but I digress) and I collected until about 1986 or so. I have in my (MIA) Classic Space collection 67 white (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) I don't know why either, I got my red one from the minifig pack, it was always interesting to wonder why that is. Maybe LC (TLG, TLC, LG, LC, etc.) had a special ranking system, and they decided to scatter them around. I wonder what the ratio (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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