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Re: Info req on Vintage space helmets
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:35:40 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Aaron West writes:
> In lugnet.space, Clark Stephens writes:
> > Dear AFOL's,
> > I have several vintage space helmets (they have straight sides, not curved
> > like modern helmets). Does anyone know when these were used? (~1977-~1983?)
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> > Also some seem to have the dimples for a visor, but none of my modern visors
> > work. Does anyone know what a vintage visor looks like, or what the dimples
> > were used for?
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> They were standard until 1987 (classic space, castle and town) in a variety of
> colors.
Those helmets lasted the better part of ten years in production. They came in
Red, White, Regular Grey, Blue, Black, Yellow, IIRC.
> The dimples were for the castle knights old helm visors (very pricey
> nowadays). To my knowledge the dimples were not used for any other purpose.
Helmet visors for space were added in Blacktron I and later themes. The
Minifig Castle Theme always had visors in a variety of configurations, some of
which are no longer used or even adapted for use with the later-model curved
helmets. Earlier Minifig Town used helmets too, though rarely with visors.
> The old helmet in terms of space must have employed a force field (Trekkie
> kind of thing) to protect the wearer from space exposure. Modern helmets
> began around 1987-88 and incorporated a physical visor. It was more of a
> psychological comfort to the wearers of these space helmets to know an actual
> object was keeping the smile from being sucked of their smiling yellow faces.
> :)
Heh.. actually it was your imagination that kept them from being sucked out
like Arnold's eyeballs in "Total Recall".
-Tom McD.
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| (...) I don't know of any other colours, either. (...) But the Blacktron-I helmets were new-style (curved, angled) and used the modern visor. At least, all of mine do! (...) Who said we kept them from being sucked out? I have at least one (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) They were standard until 1987 (classic space, castle and town) in a variety of colors. The dimples were for the castle knights old helm visors (very pricey nowadays). To my knowledge the dimples were not used for any other purpose. The old (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.space)
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