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In lugnet.castle, Jake McKee wrote:
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Without giving away the farm (or fiefdom, for you castle folks), we can say
that the existence of these figures in no way precludes the existence of a
System-scale Castle theme. And the figures are unequivocally not a
replacement for the Castle theme that you all know and love.
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Thank you for explanation. I’d like to ask: how about Pirates? We heard the new
Pirate sets will be 4+, with Jack Stone scale figures. That means no more
regular minifig scale Pirates?
Thanks in advance and kind regards,
--
shgg.
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In lugnet.castle, Andrzej M. Szlaga wrote:
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In lugnet.castle, Jake McKee wrote:
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Without giving away the farm (or fiefdom, for you castle folks), we can
say that the existence of these figures in no way precludes the existence
of a System-scale Castle theme. And the figures are unequivocally not a
replacement for the Castle theme that you all know and love.
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Thank you for explanation. I’d like to ask: how about Pirates? We heard the
new Pirate sets will be 4+, with Jack Stone scale figures. That means no more
regular minifig scale Pirates?
Thanks in advance and kind regards,
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The take-away from my last message should be (in part) that no new product by
default leads to the demise of another product.
Jake
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Jake McKee
Community Liaison
LEGO Community Development
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Hi Andrzej,
In lugnet.castle, Andrzej M. Szlaga wrote:
> I'd like to ask: how about Pirates? We heard the
> new Pirate sets will be 4+, with Jack Stone scale figures.
Since I own the latest german dealer's catalog, I can tell you that for certain:
Pirates are Jack-Stone-scaled in 2004. Sets are with many large elements, but
also with a few very nice parts (new pirate flags, maps on 4x4-tiles, chrome
weapon...). Sorry, I'm NOT allowed to upload pictures before mid-december and I
will NOT send pictures by mail. But I would bet we will see the pictures
somewhere in the next days :-)
> That means no more
> regular minifig scale Pirates?¬
Let's hope TLC will make a Pirate-theme with minifigs in the future too.
René
http://www.creativity-contest.net
http://www.1000steine.com
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In lugnet.castle, Jake McKee wrote:
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The take-away from my last message should be (in part) that no new product by
default leads to the demise of another product.
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So what you are saying is... that... F-F-FABULAND LIVES!!! :) ;P
..Heehee, seriously though, thanks for your words on all this. The Harry Potter
vs System-Castle concerns have been here for some time. It is nice to here at
least some counter-point to that.
I can’t really comment on the more recent concerns, as I haven’t had the time to
lurk (much less post) much outside of .starship during recent months (planning a
wedding is eating into my Lego® time). But I can say this: No matter what
happens, Lego® Castle will always exist as long as I continue to have the bricks
to build it. ;)
Cheerio,
-Hendo
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Thank you for explanation. I’d like to ask: how about Pirates? We heard the
new Pirate sets will be 4+, with Jack Stone scale figures. That means no more
regular minifig scale Pirates?
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Did the existence of Jack Stone prevent LEGO from ever making regular minifig
scale City sets again?
I would guess that there will probably be regular minifig scale pirate sets
again someday. However, they have to give the 4 year olds something cool to play
with too, and in 2004 that something is going to be Pirates.
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In lugnet.pirates, René Hoffmeister wrote:
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Hi Andrzej,
In lugnet.castle, Andrzej M. Szlaga wrote:
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I’d like to ask: how about Pirates? We heard the
new Pirate sets will be 4+, with Jack Stone scale figures.
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Since I own the latest german dealer’s catalog, I can tell you that for
certain: Pirates are Jack-Stone-scaled in 2004. Sets are with many large
elements, but also with a few very nice parts (new pirate flags, maps on
4x4-tiles, chrome weapon...). Sorry, I’m NOT allowed to upload pictures
before mid-december and I will NOT send pictures by mail. But I would bet we
will see the pictures somewhere in the next days :-)
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That means no more
regular minifig scale Pirates?
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Let’s hope TLC will make a Pirate-theme with minifigs in the future too.
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I was convinced after seeing the set numbers on the pirate sets (7070-...) that
the sets would be minifig scaled, because recent minifig-themes (orient
expedition, world city) are all in the 7-series, whereas the new 4-juniors
sets (formerly known as jack stone) have set numbers starting with “4”. The new
“bionicle-castle” sets also fit this reasoning since they are in the
8-series like “old” bionicle. Therefore I was not surprised they were not in
minifig-scale when the pictures popped up.
Guess the logic does not hold for the pirate sets (still hoping it will
though...)
Rick.
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In lugnet.castle, Jake McKee wrote:
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The take-away from my last message should be (in part) that no new product
by default leads to the demise of another product.
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In lugnet.castle, John P. Henderson wrote:
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So what you are saying is... that... F-F-FABULAND LIVES!!! :) ;P
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Yes it does, just in the form of a certain mouse¹...
Jason Railton
¹ I’m still curious how much it costs to license a trademark that, according to
the law at the time it was registered, should have expired two decades ago...
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"Rocco J Carello" <rogue27@mac.com> writes:
> > Thank you for explanation. I'd like to ask: how about Pirates? We heard the
> > new Pirate sets will be 4+, with Jack Stone scale figures. That means no more
> > regular minifig scale Pirates?
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>
> Did the existence of Jack Stone prevent LEGO from ever making regular minifig
> scale City sets again?
>
> I would guess that there will probably be regular minifig scale pirate sets
> again someday. However, they have to give the 4 year olds something cool to play
> with too, and in 2004 that something is going to be Pirates.
Well, remember what happened with Town. First they came out with Jack
stone, to get the tykes hooked. Then this year we have Extreme Sports
island, World City, etc. which are the minifig-scale versions of Jack
Stone. The kids who played with Jack Stone could then "graduate" to
these newer minifig town themes.
One might venture to guess that these weird-scale knights and pirates
are a precursor to minifig-scale sets in future years for those same
kids when they get a bit older.
In other words, it's a GOOD thing!
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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