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In lugnet.castle, Sean Harrington writes:
> Actually, I think the Hogwarts Express is a VERY likely candidate for
> inclusion in the HP Lego series, but probably NOT as a 9v train line item.
> Think Time Twisters Twisted Time Train (6497) rather than true Lego 9v Train.
> Lego is thinking for sets that can be used across ALL of the movie franchise,
> not just Sorcerer's Stone, so the HWX is very likely to be used.
>
> I'd like to see a Hagrid's Cottage with a double size Hagrid minifig. Where
> existing minifigs are 2 studs wide by 1.5 studs deep and about 5 bricks tall,
> I'd like to see Hagrid be 4x3x8 or so. Maybe include a pet Norbert?
>
> We'll probably see a Quidditch Match set, using the same types of "handles"
> used for the Movie Making Kit, or maybe with the clear pedastals used on the
> Battle Droid STAPs from the Naboo Swamp (7121). Think of a cross between the
> Lego Soccer stadium and the Castle themes. Again, this is used across all the
> books, so it's a good inclusion.
>
> There will likely be a couple of Hogwarts sets that can all be combined.
> Probably a Great Hall, a Gryffindor Common room, a classroom, and maybe even a
> set that recreates the "puzzle" section at the end of Book 1. A large scale
> Fluffy would be very cool!
>
> And TLG DOES want our input on the HP series, both as AFOL and as parents. I
> know my daughter would rather see it in Minifig format rather than Belville
> format, and I'm a bit concerned that TLG might be leaning in the Belville
> direction. I think the Belville characters are ugly and clunky, and I don't
> think the sets are very playable beyond their initial, instruction manual
> build. My daughter doesn't play with Belville stuff much for that very reason.
> She feels it implies that girls are stupid and less creative than boys.
>
>
> - Sean
Sean, I know that the message that i'm responding to here was
posted a little while ago, but as I read more of the HP novels, the more
comitted I become to advocating Belville scale HP sets. Before reading on,
you may want to refer to a message that I posted not too long ago
(lugnet.general #28601). First, I have an addendum to the previously
mentioned lugnet.general posting. I'm sure that you'll be able to
understand why it's pertinent.
When I mentioned that I have converted my girlfriend's 7 year old
sister into a Lego maniac with the assistance of belville, I neglected to
mention that the toys she enjoyed the most in the past were Barbie (duh...)
and Sailor Moon (FYI, She has also develpoed quite a penchant for Pokemon
over the course of the last year). She really didn't respond too quickly to
the freestyle bucket I purchased her for x-mas '99, even though I included a
paradisa set and a millimy the fairy set with the gift. However, once my
girlfriend and I started to give her larger sets from the belville "fairy
tale" (storybook?) theme, her playtime with legos dramatically increased. I
think that the belville line presents an excellent transition for young
girls to go from Barbie (or other dollhouses and dollsets) into Lego. I'd
like to know how old your daughter is, as well as what her favorite non-lego
toys were prior to getting involved with the brick and what her fav non-lego
toys are currently. Also, how do you think she'd respond to the belville
line if the color scheme complimented, say, the Castle sets rather than the
paradisa theme? How do you think she'd react to highly detailed fully
posable characters (at least as close to fully posable as an action figure
can be without a torso that swivles) if they were familiar characters from
the HP stories, such as hermione and harry? And, just for the sake of
asking, do you think she'd appreciate technic sets that had a more feminine
color scheme? (I think that it'd be real cool to see a pastel technic model
of an automobile similar to the new VW bug).
I think that you're on to something with your two suggestions for
quidditch sets (i.e., translucent posts similar to the one's that the STAP's
use and "handles" similar to the ones used in the moviemaker sets). I'd
like to see both of these in Belville incarnations. I think that one
properly sized piece could be used for both. I'm thinkin' a clear antenna
tall enough to hold a broomstick-mounted quidditch player at least 6 to 8
inches above whatever platform it may be mounted on, and yet able to adapt
into a "handle" just by twisting it to the side. I have trouble imagining a
minifig sized quidditch set. TLC would have to do a new broomstick that'd
be flat in the center so that a minifig could straddle it in a manner
similar to the minifig bicycles. The belville witch, however, easily mounts
her broomstick in a very convincing manner.
With that all said, I'll add that I agree that an HWX has a good
chance of seeing a lego incarnation in either scale precisely for the reason
that you cite; it may not have a large part in any single story, but it
appears in every main HP novel so far.
My final comment in this message is to request that we get a
Lugnet.harrypotter newsgroup goin sometime soon. Maybe just a temporary
lugnet.dear-lego.harrypotter newsgroup for potter-specific suggestions and
requests until we see what sets we get and decide on a more appropriate
location amongst the existing newsgroup structure for harry potter related
discussion.
One Love,
Damien
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