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Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:51:22 GMT
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On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:25:30 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following
profundities...
> > Adventurers
> > General
> > ?
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> There actually are two themes here now within the Adventurers system, but
> Because of the different logos, these two sub-categories of Adventurers are
Adventurers being the main theme, Desert Adventures as the 1st, Jungle
Adventures as the 2nd.
> > Castle
> > Ninja
> This will all get cleaned up into a "Castle System" category with several
All of the pre-ninja castle sets are Euro-centric type castles. The Ninja
theme is Japan, and therefor very different. I would have thought Ninja as
a theme in its own right to be appropriate. Most Japanese structures that
were in a castle-style I thought were classified as forts..
> Clothing is another area like Books which will take a lot of research and
> probably have a zillion sub-categories and many layers. I think clothing is • Many Layers! LOL! Especially if you are in a cold country.......
> Is Radio Control officially a sub-category of Model Team? Or is it a
> sibling of Model Team? All the regular Model Team sets I can see are
> 55xx-numbered (except 2556), and the '98 Radio Control Racer is 56xx(5600).
Its own theme altogether. Completely different style to Model Team anyway.
<snipped Space, Star Wars, Technic, Town>
Star Wars, own theme. 2 Sub-themes, presumably a 3rd 20 years from now. Each
subtheme spreading across the trilogy. Space, 565 was mentioned. Different type
of figure, different sub-theme.
Town-split between minifigs/armless minifigs and
anything prior to it. Major shift in building type/scale.
Technic..
> > ZNAP
> > General
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> Officially, ZNAP is its own whole system -- supposedly completely separate
> from Technic -- but it's interesting to note that ZNAP sets have actual
> Technic pieces in them -- that is, actual Technic pegs, gears, and motors.
> In that sense, it's almost more like Technic than ThrowBots/Slizer because
> there are more classic Technic pieces in regular technic colors in ZNAP than
> in ThrowBots/Slizer.
And many Lego system sets, regardless of theme categorization, have Technic
pieces in them, as have Technic containing Lego System pieces. The 8480 being
the best possible example, with 2 minifig seats in the cockpit. Does this
qualify as the duck-billed platypus set perhaps? The one link between the 2
different systems? Should not, therefor, 8480 also be a town/space/launch
command/space port set? And as Suzanne has the micro-technic helicopter, with a
mini-fig seat, you have no doubt placed a minifig in the seat, despite the head
sticking part-way out of the cockpit.
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| OK, so here's my whole spiel on themes... This is a medium-term planning thing (1-3 months) and a background task while other stuff goes on. I don't expect we'll have the new theme tree completely worked out before the end of January or Februrary. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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