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In lugnet.year.2001, Thomas Main writes:
> "J.D. Forinash" wrote:
> >
> > In article <G85sKw.DrI@lugnet.com>, Kevin Zwicker <kevin1@netrover.com> wrote:
> > > www.brickset.com/view.asp?Set=4115-1
> > > www.brickset.com/view.asp?Set=4117-1
> > > www.brickset.com/view.asp?Set=4172-1
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> > I don't think I like the Creator figures, but I also wonder what it was like
> > back in '78... "Arms?! On minifigs?!"
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> I remember it well. My mom bought me set 709 Police Boat on an out of
> town trip (I was 8 or 9) and I have a distinct memory of sitting in the
> back seat (of a large, gas-guzzling Ford Ltd.) and opening the box,
> building the model and moving the new, posable minifig. I thought it
> was GREAT that you could move the arms and legs and that the fig had a
> smiley face painted on it! The only thing I found strange was that you
> couldn't take apart the torso and legs to make a fig sit like the
> previous ones...at first I thought that a seated minifig looked stupid
> and less realistic than the "lap" seating that was posible with the
> older figures.
I was six or seven and I remember loving the fact that they finally had
faces. Finally they weren't just mannequins. And I also loved the helmets.
In addition years later when the yellow castle came out I was astonished by
the visors and amazed that they had molded the dimples in the helmets from
the start but took that long to take advantage of them for visor hingeing. I
know that I would have liked to have larger figures, perhaps only in
addition to the minifigures, because my friends and I always made Lego
vehicles for playmobil figures as well. Too bad I had given up Lego when the
Technic figures came out. I don't think I would have liked the Creator
figures back then because the big round headed figures Lego made around
1975(see: http://guide.lugnet.com/set/192 for an example) seemed to smiley
and happy. I think it wasprecisely the fact that minifigures had faces but
were more anonymous and abstract due to their size.
Jonathan
Jonathan
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| (...) I remember it well. My mom bought me set 709 Police Boat on an out of town trip (I was 8 or 9) and I have a distinct memory of sitting in the back seat (of a large, gas-guzzling Ford Ltd.) and opening the box, building the model and moving the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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