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Animals!
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Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:45:19 GMT
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Hi all,
I know this subject has been under the spotlight before, but with the recent
introduction of the Adventurer-OE series I feel there is a need to discuss
the LEGO policy regarding animals.
No, I don't think they're being mistreated! :-)
What I'm just a bit confused is why there are no cows.
Yes, I wrote COWS! Those big animals one sees in farms all over the
inhabited world? The ones where we get most of the milk? That's right.
Why?
I mean, we have had a wide variety of animals since the mid eighties:
ranging from the ubiquitous horse to the not so common polar bear, passing
by the parrot or scorpion... now we even have a huge *elephant*! And yet,
cows and other farm animals are nowhere to be seen in sets; more obvious
still is the lack of DOGS... (whomever said they were man's best friend sure
did not work for LEGO!)
I know I can make hens and even cows using my own immagination, to have them
being fed to my minifigs (well, figuratively speakin'...). And I probably
could design some sort of dog too - in fact, I think all of these animals
have been done before using regular bricks.
But I want a one-part COW, by LEGO. A white-and-black spotted milky COW. So
that I can finally make the industry I wish: a milk processing facility.
What, you think I'm kiddin'? :-)
And while we're at it...
Also other animals which would be cool to have portrayed in LEGO:
- sheep (where do minifig sweaters come from?);
- pigs;
- ducks;
- turkeys (for LEGO thanksgiving?)
- Any other farm animal you can remember - sorry, I'm a city boy :-/
Wouldn't it be cool to have a LEGO Farm theme? It seems to me that LEGO is
going through a "designers' block", and can't come up with anything 100%
cool and recognizeable for the regular buyer. So why not go back to the
obvious, the kind of stuff that populates Denmark (for what I know, Billund
is in the middle of the countryside anyway) and the vast majority of the
western world's surface?
Just a thought,
Pedro
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) You know, I think cows would be right with Adventures OE. They are in India, right? People in India think they're holy, right? What's the deal? Is lego afraid that the people of India will think that lego is mocking their religion? Anybody (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) They've been making one-piece LEGO cows for some time now: (URL) also find one-piece pigs and roosters in this set. (...) If it's a Thankgiving turkey you're looking for, they've also had that available for a few years now. Hard to find, but (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)
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| Hello Pedro, (...) I'm missing animals too and could be eaten up with envy seeing my little daughter playing with her DUPLO sheep and cows... But I'm working on animals made out of bricks (although, as you wrote, this isn't what you really want), I (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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