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Re: Color & Classic Space
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Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:36:49 GMT
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Nephilim wrote:
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> Felix Greco wrote in message ...
> > This may be rehashing an old topic, but has anyone ever thought about what each
> > color might mean for the old space mini-figs? Here's my theory:
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> > Yellow= Pilots- they always seemed to be the figs that came with spaceships
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> > White= Technicians- they played the support role in most pictures involving
> > ships.
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> [snip]
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> The first few years of classic space in the late 70s, all you could get
> were red and white astronauts. I assumed that this was meant to
> signify USA/USSR joint space exploration. I thought it was kind
> of cool that they both came in the same sets - that there wasn't one
> team vs another, but two teams working in harmony.
>
> I didn't think of it in terms of one color = one skill.
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> It's funny - I adore the classic smiley figures, but, as a kid, I was a *little*
> disgruntled with them. They were WAY too happy for effective roleplaying.
> John: "Oh my god, my helmet's come off" ... (he dies a gurgling death as his
> oxygen bleeds out into space .... smiling like a fool). I experimented with different
> things - turning the heads around so you couldn't see the smileys, but that didn't
> look cool. Using transparent red or green 1x1 rounds as heads, so that I could
> pretend their faces were hidden with a green or red visor to shield their eyes
> from the harsh glare of the suns ....
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> I would have been thrilled with the Blacktron figures. Same old wonderful
> smileys, but with the black visors, you can role play them in any
> situation.
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> Nowadays, I don't actually role play with the minifigs, and I love the smileys,
> and hate the ugly grimacing faces. They're painful to look at. I wonder
> if I would have liked them as a child. I would have just been happy if the
> smileys were *neutral* ... you don't have to have their faces cast in a permanent
> rictus of evil.
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> Anyway, with red being the soviets and white being the americans, when
> the yellow figures came out, I figured they were the japanese. I wouldn't
> have known what to make of blue or black figures, but by then I would have
> realized they didn't represent anything in particular more than trying to keep
> the toy line interesting and varied.
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> I like the idea that one color might be a pilot, another the commander,
> and such, but since they only started out with red and white, it's hard
> for me to buy that. Of course, we can assign any meaning we
> want to assign to our toys, but as far as LEGO is concerned, I'm not
> sure I really discern plausible patterns in the distribution of the
> different colored space figures.
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> > Black= I can't really figure these guys out. My thoughts were either gaurds,
> > GI, or high command. What I eventually came up with was that they represented
> > the ministry of internal mini-fig affairs which was like the secret service.
> > This is supported by the fact that the first space police were black mini-figs
> > because, obviously, the ministry felt that just having agents in the field was
> > not enough what with all that uranium going back and forth.
>
> Heh. I like that. =)
>
> Does your perception of the colors extend to the Futuron figures?
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> --
>
> jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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| Felix Greco wrote in message ... (...) [snip] The first few years of classic space in the late 70s, all you could get were red and white astronauts. I assumed that this was meant to signify USA/USSR joint space exploration. I thought it was kind of (...) (27 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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