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Re: Color & Classic Space
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 3 Dec 1999 04:47:55 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Felix Greco writes:
> 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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> Blue= Scientists- They were the figs with the labs and the Uranium search
> vehicle.
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> Red= Command- they came with the command base and command vehicles
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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.
I tended to think of them as skill/rank too, depending upon which color I had
more of, never nationality. But blue and black were always officers, black
being highest in command. I remember buying an old town tow truck set for a
blue helmet to make a blue spaceman before they officially came out.
-Tom McD.
radiotitan.8m.com
when replying, I also think of spamcake as rank.
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