To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.dear-legoOpen lugnet.dear-lego in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Dear LEGO / 2982
2981  |  2983
Subject: 
Re: Future of Belville
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.belville, lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:42:13 GMT
Viewed: 
716 times
  
In lugnet.belville, Wes Loder writes:
In lugnet.belville, Sean Harrington writes:

I don't much like either Belville or Scala primarily due to the color scale (it
makes me ill, like looking at Las Vegas hotel carpeting for too long), and
there just aren't enough things to build with them. Once you build the set
according to instructions, the bulk of your time is just spent moving the
figures around from room to room.

But, consider that Belville is part of LEGO
SYSTEM. There is no reason to limit oneself to the
pieces that come with the Belville sets. I
currently have a doll house and a barn sitting on
a desk all built to Belville scale. The house is
three stories high complete with kitchen,
bedrooms, bath and living areas. The barn has
stalls for several horses plus haymow and people
quarters upstairs. These are the second
generation dwellings I have built to this scale and
if I had more time and white bricks, I would be
planning the third generation. I also have my
Belville children flying around in Technic
helicopters, riding in Technic beach buggies and
generally terrorizing the Mini-fig scale town. :-
)
I would agree that Belville sets—as sold—
offer little building possibilities, but the same
might be said of too many TLG sets nowadays.
Cheers, WES

     Cheers indeed, Wes.  As in three cheers for Wes.  Hip Hip Hooray, etc.
I don't even have to look at the pics that you've posted of your creations
to be enthusiastic about your hybridization of system, technic, and belville
themes since I've always thought that the Belville figures compliment the
Technic vehicles so well.  At least they seem like they would from the
catalog.  As I've had to limit my collecting recently to the Star Wars theme
because of financial limitations, I haven't been able to try it out but you
can bet that i plan on it.  Either way, it'd be nice to see lego release
some sets that would officially bridge the gap between the Belville and
technic themes.  Technic in pastels, anyone?  Again, I have to refer anybody
who comes upon this thread to my posting to lugnet.general #28601 as it's
subject matter is entirely relevent to what's being discussed here.



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Future of Belville
 
(...) But, consider that Belville is part of LEGO SYSTEM. There is no reason to limit oneself to the pieces that come with the Belville sets. I currently have a doll house and a barn sitting on a desk all built to Belville scale. The house is three (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.belville, lugnet.castle, lugnet.dear-lego)

13 Messages in This Thread:






Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR