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Re: Minifig question.. Swashbuckler?
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Thu, 9 Dec 1999 20:39:39 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
> craig hamilton wrote:
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> > In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
> > > Heather Patey wrote:
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> > > > Craig, your minifig ideas (as usual) sound great. I've been hankering
> > > > after the pirate with the white shirt and tan vest for this very use,
> > > > in order to build the final scene from "The Highwayman"
> > >
> > > I'd dearly love one of those as well. Would that be the Noyes poem "The
> > > Highwayman" (set to music by Loreena McKennit, among others?) A great poem
> > > (and song), but a little...er...*dark* for LEGO 'figs, no? Especially that
> > > final scene?
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> > jeff ~ would you belive that the lorena mc-kennit song is what inspired
> > me to make this fig!?
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> Sure. That song was the first one of hers I ever heard, playing in a record
> store. I stood there and listened to it and wound up buying the CD after it
> was done.
Loreena Mckennitt is a great singer and musician! The first time I heard "The
Highwayman", it brought a tear to my eye. It is just so hauntingly beautiful!
My other favorites by her include "Bonny Portmore", "All Souls Night",
"Between the Shadows", "The Old Ways", and one I don't know the name of that
was on an episode of Due South.
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> BTW, the other option for the Highwayman hat would be the tricorns from the
> Pirate sets. Certainly from roughly the right time period!
I've tried making swashbucklers with that hat, and it just doesn't seem to fit.
I don't know why, maybe because I expect it to be on Johnny Tremain or
something. :)
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> > poor forest babe got bound!
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> Bess, the landlord's daughter...a Padme hairpiece in black would be perfect
> for her (O sweet black waves in the moonlight!)
That hairpiece in the other four hair colors (Red, Black, Beige, and Gray)
would be so cool! I really want a red one! :)
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> > i love building "dark" things
> > from lego. the juxtaposition is interesting.(~ & funny; especially when
> > mini-figs are involved!)
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> Well, sure, I mean, I've had a "Man in the Iron Mask", a demonic servant of
> the Witch-Queen, brother fighting brother, betrayals, all that sort of stuff -
> but somehow everything winds up coming out OK. I just have to. It's the
> little smiles on their faces. LEGO are so innocent and optimistic to me.
Hmmm... I want to make a female minifig with light blue and white, so I can
have the Ice Queen (Shiva!). Actually, the head from the Rock Raiders female
(sans-headset) would be really cool on her. I do plan on making a Black Queen
with the hat from the new Princess minifig, though. Maybe she'll be the wife
of the Necromancer.
> (I think I was actually bloodier about my play in my childhood...)
I know I was. You should've seen some of battles! Arrows beheading people and
stuff like that. Similar to some scenes from Princess Mononoke, actually. :)
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> I think my minifigs exist in a sort of perpetual medieval Val-LEGO-halla,
> where they can drink all night and fight all day and even be killed or
> whatnot, but at the end of it all, everybody is back again for another round
> of mead drunk from little yellow goblets.
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> On the other hand, there is a certain tragic beauty to the idea of the LEGO
> Highwayman, lying in the middle of a spreading pool of red tiles as the
> Redcoats reload...
With a bunch of lace at his throat... :)
Jeff
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