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Re: Lego 2000 and Beyond (was Re: Sadly a look at this group...)
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lugnet.pirates
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Wed, 10 Nov 1999 22:31:28 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
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> > Nope, but my prediction was that if Adventurers continued, we would not see a
> > return of Pirates. We may never see a return in any case. One can hope for
> > 2001, but perhaps Pirates is just too out of style, and something hipper • makes
> > more sense to Lego. I'd like to know the answer just for my own piece of
> > mind,but they play their cards close to the gravy stains.
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> A pox on your predictions, Bruce!
Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player! :-)
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> A return of the Pirate/Soldier themes is the SINGULAR thing TLG could do to
> forever mend the extant rift between it and AFOL. The new 2000 lineup looks
> good, a giant step in the right direction in fact, but its still not quite
> fully on target -- the whole target!
Rock Raiders. Eyuck. I'd love to see those dumped for Pirates, but remember
what I said about "hipper".
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> I want more 1700s themes, dammit! If I can't have Pirates and Soldiers, how
> about a colonial village, or London in the era of Moll Flanders or Barry
> Lyndon, or a Castillian castle and REAL conquistadors?
Great for adult displays, not so good as toys for kids. Wish for Pirates: that
at least has a ghost of a chance.
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> How about Lego Empire, or Lego Baroque? Rococo?
Ghost of a chance is better than absolutely none. You are just torturing
yourself. ;-)
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> Lego Solomon Kane?
Now who the heck knows who Solomon Kane is? (no, don't explain, Robert E.
Howard character, but I know all sorts of useless trivia so I don't count)
> Couldn't they just make a series of Soldier accessory packs? I can't be alone
> in wanting to fill a field with soldiers of two kinds and muskets -- and I
> guess Blue and Red is easiest (Redcoats and Prussians?). And of course, this
> was a huge missed opportunity in Wild West -- speaking of the Blue and the
> Grey conflict...
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> -- Richard
It would be very nice if they made Soldier accessory packs - a bit more early
1800s than 1700s, but at least you're in the ballpark. English and French.
But independent of a supporting theme....(BANG! Thud. Piano player doesn't
get to finish sentence about not having even a ghost of a....BANG!
RATATATATAT! Thud)
Bruce
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