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Re: Help The Homeless In Legoville!
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lugnet.dear-lego
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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:
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> On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, R2 wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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! :) )
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> 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!
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> > 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.
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> 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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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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