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Re: Too Many StubbiesT? (Was: New Slave 1 on StarWars.com)
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:55:57 GMT
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"Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> wrote in message
news:GqtE80.Coq@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.starwars, Steve Tanner writes:
> > Has everyone seen the new Slave 1 on the Official Site?
> > http://www.starwars.com/collecting/news/2002/01/news20020131.html
> >
> > How do you think it compares to 7144? Personally, I like the colors, but
> > those windows seem a bit to simplified for my tastes. The original • version
> > I felt did a better job here in being "pure LEGO"
>
> I agree...the window is too Jack Stone.
>
> More importantly though, to my mind, is the inclusion of young Boba Fett • in
> the set...look at the picture...this seems to be the first case of LEGO
> using StubbiesT to do a figure as a child scaled to an adult. When we • first
> caught wind of the shorter legs, this is, of course, something we all
> thought of, but now LEGO is doing it for real...do we like this or not?
>
> Why I ask: Scale has always been tenuous at best when talking about LEGO,
> especially where our adoreable, but horribly deformed and out-of-scale,
> favorite figures are concerned. I don't have anything against StubbiesT
> except that they are esentially POOPs, and as such have decilned play • value.
>
> But what does this new scale mean? I don't want like, say, the entire • Harry
> Potter line to switch to StubbiesT because of all the kids, because then • the
> play value and the reuseability of the fig parts declines to a sorry • point.
> Likewise, I DO NOT want to be innundated by StubbiesT ever...I need true,
> articulated, minifig legs, thankyouverymuch, and scale be damned! No one • was
> worried when 10 year old Anakin was the same height as 25 year old • Obi-Wan.
> I don't mind StubbiesT being used for certain things (Yoda, Ewoks,
> Gringott's goblins) for fun and effect, but I see this as far different • from
> producing tons of the things.
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> Am I nuts? Does anyone agree with me? Are StubbiesT the end of the
> articulated minifig legs forever?
I hope Boba's Stubby legs are blue. I'll use them for my Watto and give
Boba his legs.
--
Grant Giandonato
g.giandonato@home.com
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