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Re: New sets, pictures at lego.com
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lugnet.belville
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Mon, 3 Jan 2000 00:51:22 GMT
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In lugnet.belville, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
> In lugnet.belville, Shiri Dori writes:
> > Weird to answer to my own letter...
> >
> > Lego has officially put the new Belville sets in the US catalog. Seems it's a
> > new line now, no longer part of System.
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> Good observation. Yes LEGO is dropping the SYSTEM designation for Belville. So
> now it is LEGO Belville, like LEGO SCALA. Todd and I won't be able to reflect
> that in the database right away, but we are aware of the change and it will be
> applied to this year's sets at some point in the future.
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> > In lugnet.belville, Shiri Dori writes:
> > > The new sets look great, they have (at least) two new characters - the Queen
> > > (she looks like Snow-white's stepmother, complete with a red apple)
> >
> > The inscription confirms this is indeed a wicked stepmother, they even have
> > the famous "Mirror Mirror" saying...
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> Hmm, wasn't it a wicked witch who was jealous of Snow White's beauty? she had
> the poison apple for Snow White.
Actually, IIRC, it was the stepmother, who later disguised herself as an old
lady so Snow white wouldn't recognize her...
> Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Fantasy Baseplate,
> Cinderella was tormented by her evil Stepmother and Stepsisters.
Rosaline is gonna be a martyr in my lego-world...
> The current witch set does come with a green and a red apple, so if I give her
> the mirror... pah. much more fun to mix it up I think.
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> [...]
> > (I can just imagine a Snow-white/Cinderella storyline...)
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> A combo story? Hee he he -- yes, where Cinderella falls asleep at the ball and
> Snow White dreads her seven small stepfathers! I'd like to see Disney do that
> one.
LOL! Just add a cyclone, and a Prince Charming that falls in love with the
fairy godmother, and then "Toto, we're not in Belville anymore..." - and it's
a classic! :-)
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> Better yet:
> There's one extremely good Princess and her identical twin, the evil Princess.
> <Trek> "Must have been a Transporter malfunction, Captain!" </Trek>
Well, there won't be any problems making duplicates of Rosaline... she appears
in every third set...
-Shiri
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| (...) [...] (...) LOL, this sounds about right according to the mention of your (3?) sisters. well, I hope poor Ros doesn't get burned at the stake or anything. (...) Oh Yes! That's right, I remember when I first saw Rosalin's friend Iris. I totally (...) (27 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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| (...) Good observation. Yes LEGO is dropping the SYSTEM designation for Belville. So now it is LEGO Belville, like LEGO SCALA. Todd and I won't be able to reflect that in the database right away, but we are aware of the change and it will be applied (...) (27 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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