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Re: Ninja vs. "real" Castle (was: Re: More news on 2000 lineup!)
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Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:40:25 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote:
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> This is what I responded to. It appears that this person refers
> Ninja to more traditional Castle subthemes.
I never understood why Ninja was a Castle subtheme...to me the two
series are unrelated and just because the sets represent the same era,
they took place in different parts of the world and I don't see any
thematic connection between them. Why not consider Ninja a separate
theme?
> I still maintain the Ninja subtheme sucks. I don't see how anyone
> could prefer it to real Castle stuff.
While I don't prefer Ninja over Castle, I *love* the Ninja sets. I like
them for these reasons:
Color combinations...esp. the black, red and white with a touch of
gray...I really like how these colors look together.
Shapes...I love the corrugated walls and sloping pieces and the way they
were put together to form an arcitectural *style*.
Story potential...there's lots of possibility for creative play in these
sets
Some other factors that make these sets appealing to me are:
part selection
multicultural aspect of the sets (*)
(*) This is the first subtheme that really pulled this off, I think. I
don't mean that these sets are PC or anything, but I think they are a
good effort of showing a different, historical culture in an educational
way. Lego is, IMHO, very Euro-Centric and I like that they attempted
something different this time.
<snip>
--
Thomas Main
main@appstate.edu
http://members.xoom.com/brickenplate/index.html
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