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Re: Lego-Ideas.
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 5 Feb 2000 10:48:29 GMT
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On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Kevin Wilson (<389B97CE.70494074@compuserve.com>)
wrote at 03:23:58
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> Hey, some of my best friends are (SCA) Vikings! :-)
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> Seriously, the Vikings are being "rehabilitated" by historians at the
> moment
That's my point. If you look at all the LEGO themes, they've already
*been* romanticised. eg. Western, Pirates, Castle.
Give the historians a few more years' worth of propaganda, and maybe
Vikings will be wholesome enough for TLC.
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> And yes, I would like to see a Viking theme, as well as Greeks and
> Romans and Celts and others.
Well, so would I, but I don't see it happening.
Apart from anything else, could you stomach 'Roman Junior?' :-)
--
Tony Priestman
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| (...) Hey, some of my best friends are (SCA) Vikings! :-) Seriously, the Vikings are being "rehabilitated" by historians at the moment but I suspect that the pendulum is doing what it normally does and swinging too far before ending up somewhere in (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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