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Re: Who is Robin Hood?
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Date: 
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:59:23 GMT
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Well, imagination is wonderful, and it was funny to see that my daughter has
created a forestmen leader (Robin Hood) to her imagination: a batlord with the
head of the mummy (married with a witch with a skeletons head)

But after all I´m still interested in the original intention of the TLG
designer team. In later castle sets they are presenting in almost every theme
an obvious leaderfig (shogun, king, batlord...), probably to increase
playability. I think they also tried to do in forestmen sets and forgot to
inform the marketing group exactly....

Dirk


In lugnet.castle, Dan Moquin writes:

I guess this is where imagination comes into play.  But, if you ask me (Which
basically you did) I would consider the Forestman with the black arms and
chest from 6066 to be Robin Hood since he is a rare figure.

The women is known around here as the Forest Wench although I don't think you
would want to use that name around your daughter!

Dan



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  Re: Who is Robin Hood?
 
I see your point, however it seems that the line between ruler and subject was not as clear as it is in today's sets. If you look at the King's Castle 6080, you would be hard pressed to say there is one particular "King" in that set. There are (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)

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(...) minifigs, (...) imagine, (...) but (...) I guess this is where imagination comes into play. But, if you ask me (Which basically you did) I would consider the Forestman with the black arms and chest from 6066 to be Robin Hood since he is a rare (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)

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