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Re: Help The Homeless In Legoville!
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Date: 
Fri, 5 Nov 1999 00:08:07 GMT
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Laura & All,

(Maybe this should be re-directed to another group?)

Laura Gjovaag wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, R2 wrote:
> 
> > Whenever I play Lego with my son I always find myself creating a "town" type
> > infrastructure because the house/doll playing is something that I can really
> > relate to.

I loved LEGO sets for my town setup. I have had many, and I always loved
combining the Space and Town themes, for a future world kind of setting.

> 


> The paradisa series was a step in the right direction, however I felt that
> the pink bricks gave it a "separation" to the other sets. The series did
> have some great detail and parts.

I did like the Paradisa theme, even with pink (I still don't like it!) Poolside
Paradise is one of my favorite sets (It had a cool house and a black convertible
a.k.a. Corvette! :) )

> 
> I loved the lighthouse set (Dolphin Point?) but wanted to rebuild it
> without any pink.  I wasn't able to find all the pieces I needed.  Maybe I
> could do it now.  They also put out a horse and corral set that had a pony
> (I think) that was very cool and female friendly.  Both of those sets were
> minifig scale, as I recall.  I also loved the Guarded Inn set, one of my
> favorites when I came out of my mini-dark ages and started buying Castle.

I took out all the pink parts of the Paradisa sets I own, I have them still, I
don't know if I want to sell them yet or not. It was a nice and different theme!

> 
> > The Scala and Belleville series
> > have some great parts, but then the scale to the regular sets are different
> > and they aren't "building" sets.
> 
> They are ugly sets.  They scream "GIRLS!  PLEASE BUY OUR PRODUCT!  LOOK!
> WE EVEN USED PINK FOR YOU!"  Ugh.  Whatever marketing genius thought up
> those sets really needs to grow a brain.  Truly hideous.

Yes, but I did buy Prince Justin for a joke (Monty Python prince Alice /
Herbert) for a co-worker. He got a kick out of it!



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  Re: Help The Homeless In Legoville!
 
(...) What I find amusing is that I always thought I *couldn't* relate to dolls and houses and such. But when I look back at the toys I loved most: LEGO and my Star Wars action figures. (I couldn't play with Barbie, I hated Barbie from a young age (...) (27 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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