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Re: pirate + ninja
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lugnet.castle.ninja
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Thu, 1 Mar 2001 18:35:57 GMT
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In lugnet.castle.ninja, Chris Barker writes:
> Has anyone considered that pirate minifigs work well as Portugese
> traders and missionaries within the Ninja world?
Yes...when the Ninja theme came out, I immediately thought cool! Shogun with
Lego!
If you ever read or saw James Clavell's "shogun" you'll see that the
Portuguese were very active in Japan. I realize this novel takes great
liberties with historical anologies and cultural observations, but it was a
great read and is fairly well researched)
> I did a MoC based on
> this which I'll post pics of one day. Maybe I'll get around to doing
> some Nagasaki MoCs since it was one of the few places where Nambanjin
> (southern barbarians) were permitted to live.
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> Chris Barker
> chris@superfami.com
Sounds like a cool project...
I view the Ninja theme as the ultimate bridge between Castle and Pirates in
my collection. The idea of my Ninjada project was to create a fortress and
show its fictional development over the centuries through different eras.
(although the idea came to me while building my first FNF years ago, I owe
some of the subsequent inspiration to Richard Parson's Port Block, which I
discovered on RTL after I came on-line)
Now, I just wish I hadn't sold ALL my Pirate ships to a person who will
remain nameless (and quite heavily armed with cannons and pirate-ey type
stuff = )
Since the Medieval "samurai-era" lasted so long in Japan, I think
integration of Pirate theme ships in MOCs is only logical...and the
possibilties are intriguing.
John
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