In which Penny Dreadful takes Bad Ha’Penny for her first day of school – and an identity crisis.
(PS: Thanks to BusyTeacher.org for the poster on the classroom wall: http://busyteacher.org/7119-english-crazy-language-poster.html)
Drop the Cow!
Smacking I.T. on the back of the head!
Where does the inspiration for the design of the child characters in DtC come from, anyway?
The child figures are something I came up with in order to have a figure somewhere between the Lego “microfigure” used in the game sets and the “short figure” which is really just a short-legged minifigure (which I use for Johnny Latex). The children needed to be smaller than the short figure, but still articulated – and TLG doesnt make a figure like that, so I had to improvise.
I liked the general idea of the microfigure with its stubby hands, but wanted the head to be standard minifigure scale as well, since children have larger heads in relation to their bodies. One day at work, I sketched the following during a meeting:
(Apologies for the bad phone camera pic.) Voila – Instant kiddiefig!