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Re: Minifigures in Legoland
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Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:32:52 GMT
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Hi James,
As a kid, I don't recall seeing many LEGO displays at all, so I guess I only
remember one minifig-scale: it was in a supermarket, a medium-sized diorama,
featuring many Town sets from 91/92. Probably before Christmas, and the
diorama gave me a lot of arguments to ask my parents LEGO for Xmas +
birthday (Dec 27).
It felt, at the time, HUGE! (I had less than half my present collection)
There was an airport, a harbor (only one was being sold in Poretugal at the
time, so that came a bit as a surprise), and a small 9V train layout, only
with 4563 and a blue hopper. Plus there were lots of vehicles, boats, and
some buildings (half a dozen?) done in Basic bricks.
On the shelves themsleves, there were three "boxes", one with Castle sets,
another with Pirates and the last one with the Technic control center I.
Later, in 97, I went to Legoland Windsor and, a bit like you, I felt
slightly disapponted with the lack of minifig-scale layouts. But those were
the early days of juniorization... :-(
Anyway, in Windsor I loved Miniland. All those working boats and trains and
bridges and such... I gazed at the dioramas for a couple of hours, but felt
a bit sad with the "brickness" that could be seen up close. They were not
like the sculptures our community has seen by its members!
Pedro
In lugnet.dear-lego, James Stacey writes:
> An old family friend called round my house a week or so with her children (3
> boys between 7 and 13) - keep with me, this is on topic honest, They live
> down in Cornwall and hadn't been to south wales before. The 3 boys are all
> huge Lego fans and between them have built up quite an impressive
> collection. They wanted to come to my house to see my Lego collection (not
> big by Lugnet standards but big enough). After they had been apparently the
> youngest said he had enjoyed my collection more than going to Legoland.
> Praise indeed :)
>
> Then it struck me that they had felt the same thing I had on visiting
> Legoland (Windsor). There are no minifig scale models at all in the park
> (outside of the shop). There are fantastic, awe inspiring models throughout,
> but nothing minifig scale.
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> I remember it must have been 83 (rambling mode on) I went to Hamleys in Bath
> and they had a large display cabinet with a diorama of Castle Lego - showing
> off the new product line. I was transfixed by the details and design. I was
> also hooked and have brought every castle set since (Dont you dare drop the
> line). Similar to the dioramas in the idea books I have always found them
> fascinating. New ideas and building techniques galore from the good people
> who supply us with plastic bricks. I appreciate the scale needs to be bigger
> for the glorious architectural masterpieces in miniland, but a room full of
> cases with minifig dioramas would be divine! especially as I havent seen one
> in a shop for years and all the displays nowadays seem to take the form of a
> small LCD screen.
>
> I'm sure Im not the only one to think this :)
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> On a related point, If you at Lego (or anyone else for that matter) has
> pictures of minifig displays, lets see them :)
>
> --
> James Stacey
> ---------
> www.minifig.co.uk
> #925
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