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Re: Animals!
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:10:51 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Brendan Powell Smith writes:
> In lugnet.general, Pedro Silva writes:
> > 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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> They've been making one-piece LEGO cows for some time now:
:-)
You got me there...
I forgot to mention I meant minifig-scale animals. There is a much wider
choice of animals in the DUPLO range, even farm animals - I recognize that.
> I realize that these animals are not quite at the minifig scale we might all
> prefer, but they are out there. I have certainly seen people use the turkey
> in a minifig setting, and I would guess it's not any further out-of-scale
> than the DUPLO (ahem, I mean, excuse me, EXPLORE) animals -- although I'd
> love it if someone who has these animals could do a size-comparison with a
> minifig.
That DUPLO/EXPLORE turkey would probably be sumthin' like an ostrich in
minifig scale... :-P
> There are also some out-of-scale instances of LEGO dogs, if you're into that
> sort of thing. I'll let other point those out.
Those Freestyle dogs, you mean? They too are too big :-(
> I would also very much like to see LEGO make more minifig-scale farm
> animals. I think a whole Farm subtheme of Town is in high order.
Yup. And that would be a theme with incredible possibilities for expansion
and integration with other past themes: fit the farm in Castle, fit the farm
in Train, fit it outside a City... if there were a set for every specialized
building on a large farm, there could be what, some 20 of them? And if we
added the food processing plants, the farm vehicles, farm machinery... we're
looking at a theme that might present some 5 new sets a year for an entire
decade!
I just wonder what the response would be from the average city kid (the
majority of LEGO buyers): would they be interested in something they rarely
have *real* contact with? Perhaps TLC is too fearful of a negative response
in this chapter, thus delaying any such theme indefinately.
> But in
> the meantime, the options are the EXPLORE animals or to make them yourself.
> See my cows:
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> http://bricktestament.com/genesis/pharaohs_dream/gn41_18.html
I'm looking for something in-between your two cow designs, something around
3-wide. That would be wider than a horse - and horses are already too "thin"
in LEGO, so...
> [WARNING: Do not click the "Next" button from that page if an illustration
> of cows eating other cows is too disturbing for you.] @8^)
I had seen this before, mate! (Cool site, BTW :-)
Nope, I don't get disturbed; I've seen real cows and pigs being killed. Now
*that* was disturbing.
(FTR, I love eating beef)
Pedro
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| (...) I can see it now! The LEGO Town theme returns in 2004 with the Farm subtheme. Finally minifig picthforks are produced again! And did you say you wanted cows? Then watch out for set 10043, The LEGO(R) Slaughterhouse(tm). It comes with twelve (...) (22 years ago, 22-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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