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Re: A new castle babe!!! (and a weird knight)
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Date: 
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 19:01:22 GMT
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Nephilim wrote:

<SNIP>
> Provocative?


Yeah. Exactly.

> > > > and lego babes shouldn´t look like that. In Paradisa, none of the
> > > > girl
> > > > minifigs looked like that.
> > > > 
> > > > --Tobias
> 
> There was a paradisa babe (or a townie, in any event) with
> visibly defined sexual characteristics (breasts)
> printed on her.  A yellow torso printed with a red
> swimsuit-looking top.


I have seen that, but the swimsuit was "flat-looking". This one has curved
lines, which I don´t like.

--Tobias

> LEGO's been making figures with visibly defined waist and
> bosom for quite a while now.  Perhaps the princess / queen's
> "wonderbra" look is a bit more excessive than had been done
> in the past, but I don't think it's any more offensive than
> the pirate wench's cleavage, or the islander's bare-breasted
> au-natural look.  (ie, not offensive at all to me).
> 
> What I find annoying is that she has been made to look much
> more "slender" than previous castle princess torsos.  Having
> a visible waist printed on her is one thing, but
> having "white space" (actually, red) all the way up and
> down her torso from shoulders to hips is another.  Minifigs are
> supposed to look chubby - it's part of their childlike
> cuteness.  So LEGO has decided that a princess needs to
> resemble a Gwyneth Paltrow more than a Kate Winslet.  Bleah.
> 
> LEGO *must* want these sets to attract little girls as
> well as boys - thus the two female minifigs included in the
> large castle, and the barbie-esque proportions of the
> princess.
> 
> > Kevin Knoot skrev i meddelandet ...
> > > 
> > > Don't forget the Islanders babe who was even topless, save for her
> > > strategically placed lei.
> > > 
> > > > 
> 
> In lugnet.castle, Tobias Möller writes:
> \
> > 
> > Actually, I never saw she was a woman until a few months ago.
> > But I still think that the castle babe is "worse", I don´t know why.
> 
> She doesn't look so bad in the long shot of the castle (page 17).
> I think I'll like the minifig when I have a chance to play
> with it, despite its celebration of the anorexic look.
> 
> --
> 
> jthompson@esker.com   "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"



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(...) Provocative? (...) There was a paradisa babe (or a townie, in any event) with visibly defined sexual characteristics (breasts) printed on her. A yellow torso printed with a red swimsuit-looking top. LEGO's been making figures with visibly (...) (27 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)

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