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Subject:	Re: Minifig What scale are they??
Newsgroups:	lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town
Date:	Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:07:55 GMT
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Richard Schamus <legoman34@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:Frw36w.B2u@lugnet.com... > I've just come to the same conclusion. (warning: blasphamess statements > follow.) Lego Train, will never to scale. Not now, not ever. Not 6 wide, • not 8 > wide. 8 wide would probably be closer, but not quite make it. I disagree with you. They can be to scale, just not with minifigs in them. Pick a scale and then calculate how many studs/bricks/plates everything would be. Sure, you will have some rounding errors and some things will not be perfect, but you will be in a certain scale, with some loose tolerances for rounding error. People who think that scale means perfectly to scale are confusing the term. There is a scale that is adhered to as close as possible. Some times, it will be off. Take the best scaled train set and get a micrometer. I bet you can find a lot of things that are off by a little bit. Ours can be just like them, except that they will be off by a lot more. Mike Poindexter

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		Re: Minifig What scale are they??
I think the problem is here that Lego have contradicted themselves with their scaling in certain models. They produce trucks and cars at 4 stud wide, passenger planes at 4 stud wide, yet trains at 6 studs wide? I have seen trains on the back of (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)

		Re: Minifig What scale are they??
(...) You've never seen S4 then...since it had NO tolerances except those that were scaled from full size. (and it was not one person who built to it, there were a bunch of people who built to it). In larger "scales", I beleve the work of Leo Myers (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)

		Re: Minifig What scale are they??
(...) The classic LEGO scale (1 door = 3 bricks high) used by LEGO from 1955-1972 is in almost perfect HO train scale. Gary Istok (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)

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		Re: Minifig What scale are they??
(...) (A quick peek behind the scenes at TLC design department... "OMG, he's figured it out! Quick let's leave work early before someone notices this post and we actually have to create something non-juniorized to the correct scale...") I've just (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)

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