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Re: Animals!
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 21 Dec 2002 16:00:21 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Pedro Silva writes:
> Hi all,
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> 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.
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> No, I don't think they're being mistreated! :-)
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> What I'm just a bit confused is why there are no cows.
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> 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.
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> Why?
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> 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!)
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> 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.
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> 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'? :-)
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> And while we're at it...
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> 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 :-/
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> 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?
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> Just a thought,
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> Pedro
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 here think they know what's going on?
~Evan Butzlaff
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| (...) I think you're giving Lego credit for a depth and range of thought on a subject that they probably never even considered for one second. Yes, for the part of the world that the new Orient Expedition sets represent, a cow might be considered (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)
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