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Re: Future of Belville
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Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:31:10 GMT
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Hey, all I care about is that the parts can be used for mini-fig stuff and
they are pretty cool.  I trash most LEGO group models anyhow and build my
own stuff.


Wes Loder <mwl2@psu.edu> wrote in message news:G6nLCs.95n@lugnet.com...
> First Belville took over the Paradisa themes,
> then, when Scala took those themes too, Belville
> morphed into a fairy land world of its own. I find
> this somewhat ironic considering that one of the
> original selling points of Belville was that its
> figures were dollhouse scale-thereby allowing
> little girls to build and play with LEGO brand
> dollhouses.
>      I find it curious that LEGO has not followed the
> fairy tale motif to its logical conclusion and
> introduced dragons and other non-human evils
> for the prince or the liberated princesses to
> contend with. Instead of more pretty princesses
> in silk dresses, where is the modern fantasy
> princess, bow and arrow or sword in hand going
> off to subdue a dragon? (in the world of LEGO no
> one ever really gets hurts).
> I find it annoying that LEGO produced a
> mini-fig scale fairy, then made none of the limbs
> moveable. Here was an opportunity to increase
> the possibilities throughout LEGO System and
> instead we have wand holders.
> Anyway, what other possibilities do you see
> with Belville within the fairyland concept that
> have not yet been explored?  Even if LEGO never
> does them, it might give me some building ideas.
> Cheers, WES



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First Belville took over the Paradisa themes, then, when Scala took those themes too, Belville morphed into a fairy land world of its own. I find this somewhat ironic considering that one of the original selling points of Belville was that its (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.belville)

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