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Re: Minifig distribution
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Date: 
Sat, 8 May 1999 01:59:35 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote [regarding Lego R2 Unit]:


> Oh, and I'm looking forward to seeing the head and body parts used in other
> applications.  Seems like the legs could be used in other ways, too.  But
> I'm feeling like it would be unlikely.

   If you look at the legs' technic-peg ends, they're
   *friction* pegs--thus making them wonderful candidates
   for use as landing gear!  I now have two R2 units, and
   will attempt such a conversion soon as proof-of-principle.
   The "barrel" body and head have plenty of other uses,
   IMHO.

   LFB.



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  Re: Minifig distribution
 
(...) But designing the R2 body to accept the 2x2 turntable top-part should have been doable. Oops, wait; the pin from the turntable top would probably collide with the Technic-pegs from the leg pieces. Well, that shouldn't have been an unsolvable (...) (27 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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