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Todd Lehman e-mailed me earlier on today and guided me towards Suzanne
Rich's website www.baseplate.com. It's an awesome sight in general, but she
may be able to aid some of you western enthusiasts specifically if you check
out the www.baseplates.com/kits section. Suzanne offers a few custom sets 2
of which are "women of the west" (which includes 3 minifig femme-fatales) and
her "saloon bartender" (which comes complete with a bar, and a keg of ale).
As far as S.H.E.I.L.D. agent David Little's latest response to my comments,
I'll say that I think that all Lego enthusiasts should depend more on their
own imaginations than on the imaginations of the paid lego set designers.
This goes for all of the LUGNET user newsgroups. We should all be trying to
build out our ideas first, refine them with feedback and support from other
Lego fans (and this means supporting the creative ventures of other lego
enthusiasts by providing used sets at affordable prices as well as for trade),
and when we start seeing enough of the existing users working on the same
idea, organize and approach TLC to support their consumers by packaging sets
that compliment these ideas. For instance, in Lugnet.Starwars, everybody
wants Stormtroopers. The execs at TLC and lucasfilm that decided to release
scout troopers first must've decided to do so after passing the moonshine jug
around. But I've yet to see any attempts at organizing Lego fans around
requesting an earlier than planned release of Stormtroopers. On recent Lugnet
posting led me to an e-bay auction of some spacemen sets from the late 70's
that were nothing more than 2 space minifigs in cardboard-backed action-figure
style packaging. I like boxes more myself, but couldn't lego offer a
stormtrooper 2 pack? I'm sure they could, but we as lego fans need to start
campaigning to get lego to put these things on the shelf or in the S@H
catalogue. Untill we organize and decide what we really want and need from
the company, the opinions of lego enthusiasts will play a minor role in
deciding what sets get released in the future. Like I said, I'd definitely
support any movement to get lego to release a western-themed trainset (even
stormtroopers for that matter), but I want to see more of a commitmenttowards
making it happen from my fellow Lego users.
P.S. I only own two WW themed sets, but I do own a 3225 and a 7722 which I
will use in an attempt to get a basic western-style train set. It'll be
awhile 'cos I've got a limited space, but I'll let ya'll know how its coming
along as soon as work starts on it.
Anyway, lets keep this discussion going,
ciao 4 now,
---D
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