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Subject: 
Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.western, lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:29:37 GMT
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In lugnet.western, David Little writes:

About lego not doing civil war sets, I would not rule it out.  Remember
Playmobil is a european company and they do american civil war figures.  Lego
is a very different company from Playmobil in some cases, but I think that
them being in europe is not the deturing factor.  If anything keeps them from
doing a civil war theme I think that it will be the fact that they don't want
to be a war toy.
David

I'm confused. There's all this talk about how Lego won't do a Civil war
theme, because it's American and Lego is European. The thing is, the whole
western theme is American, in the first place. The whole cowboys and indians
(or Native AMERICANS) thing is from US history. The blue-clad soldiers are
wearing uniforms of the US army, circa late 19th century. If Lego never does
a Civil war theme, I don't see how it would have anything to do with the
fact that Lego is a European company.

-Jonathan



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  *Native* (was "Re: Future Wild West Possibilities")
 
Notice "Follow-Up"... (...) [screech!...] [CRASH!!!] You just hit one of my major pet peeves. *I* am a native American citizen. I am *NOT*, however, of the American Indian ethnicity!!! I was _born_ here in the US of A. _ANYONE_ who was _BORN_ within (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
 
(...) It's because the "Wild West" is a genre of interest in Europe, possibly more than it is here. Very much from the mythological "Cowboys 'n' Injuns" POV, rather than real history. The US Civil War isn't of particular interest to Europeans (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.western)
  Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
 
(...) Hmmm, I wonder if (to get this back "on topic" for .starwars) if TLG can't acquire a license to "F Troop"...or maybe to "Glory" (but then they'd have to handle race in minifigs, wouldn't they?). Idle speculation, and naturally it's got zero (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
 
I to would love to see lando make it into lego. I just think something would be missing if he didn't. About lego not doing civil war sets, I would not rule it out. Remember Playmobil is a european company and they do american civil war figures. Lego (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.starwars)

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