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Subject: 
Re: New Knights Kingdom
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lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:41:28 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, James Stacey wrote:
> Dear Lego
> (call me a geek if you will) Is there any reason why the new Knights Kingdom
> action Figures are all left handed ? The pictures of the minifig sets have
> all the figs wielding weapons in their right hand (as they always have), the
> comics in the instructions have them swapping hands from frame to frame. OK
> so its only a toy and dosent matter in the grand scale of things, and I can
> always have 'parrying action' rather than 'sword striking' action, but as
> someone who does a fair bit of sword fighting in my spare time it strikes me
> as a bit odd

Maybe they are right handed, but the image has been mirrored. It wouldn't be the
first time someone in marketing decided an image looked better the other way
around. I recall a Kit-Kat billboard they had here for a while that showed a
mountain bike with the chain on the wrong side.

Allister



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Dear Lego (call me a geek if you will) Is there any reason why the new Knights Kingdom action Figures are all left handed ? The pictures of the minifig sets have all the figs wielding weapons in their right hand (as they always have), the comics in (...) (23 years ago, 17-Dec-03, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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