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Ricky: 5/14/2011 11:12:00 PM

My Desert Island design piece

I found this schematic while I was Googling 'Lego Minifig Images'*. Pretty obvious I suppose. But there is something extraordinarily beautiful and perfectly formed about the maths and design and beauty of the Minifig. My son and I have about 400 of them and I have an obsession with making famous people Minifigs.

I love them.

* BTW, I don't really know why I was Googling 'Lego Minifig Images', I was bored I think.

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