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| First at all I apologize all possible LEGO fans with Mongol origin but this strange idea hurts me from some time. I was thinkering about LEGO domestic animals and list was not so long: horses, cats, parrots (are they domestic?) and hawks/falcons (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well, there are alligators. Alligator is *really* good. No, it does not taste like chicken. And yes, they can be raised "domestically"... there are several alligator farms in Florida (at least one of which, Gatorland Farms, is open for tours). (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Erm... dragons? Simon. LEGO: SP[cl++++(6825)ip++b...++++(6951) PI[so++++]++ CA[dm++++(6078)bf/cr...++++(6081) #++++ YB75M (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I imagine how it will be described in someones LEGO Space History or Timeline: "Year 2257. Famous scientist Dr.Cyber developed a kind of Dragons based on strange Old Earth animal called "cow". These new species were capable to bring milk, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Parrots are domestic, my fiancee's parents have an African Gray and a Amazon Parrot. As for the Mongols, I don't think so, all of my minifigs love feasting on associated meat products, the animals being raised in New Dallas, around twenty miles from (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Not exactly domestic, and not used yet in system to my knowledge, are crabs. Clams at least have been introduced. Don't know if starfish are eddible. For other usually not domesticated edibles of course there is shark and dolphin. Oh, there's (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Just thinking, what are in those hotdogs that come with one or two Scala sets? Greg citrusx__@yahoo.com (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Are you sure? They look like Carp to me. Besides, Dolphins don't have scales! (...) Gotta put them cow-catchers to good use, eh? :) Jeff (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| And maybe a "Shark" steak? (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) You also get a chicken or turkey leg with the hotdog in one of the sets, I'd like to know where that came from! of course it's the set you get the dog and cats in... makes me a little leary! Momma cat only had 2 kittens?? or is that all that's (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well obviously, LEGO never intended them to eat, otherwise we would have seen a minifig scale toilet by now. :') (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Another thought: How about Zebra meat? The Islanders used zebra skin for their drums, so I am assuming they ate the rest of the animal, unless they are extremely wasteful minifigs. Greg citrusx__@yahoo.com (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The Ninja stuff is clearly influenced in part by Nagoya Castle, which has decorative elements which are dolphins, even though they are scaled. Take a look at some of the following links: Home page: (URL) of Nagoya Castle: (URL) of the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs... All eaten by the minifgs?? Sybrand Bonsma Unofficial Fabuland Homepage: (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Maybe mini-figs are good to the animals and don't eat them! Thats what I like to think. -- Have fun! John AUCTION Page (6067,6023,4558,8880 ++++ more!) (URL) Page (URL) wp,dm,rk,df++ fk-]++++(6035) SW,TR,old(456)+++ TO++ PI,SP+ DU-- #+++++ (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) research, I came to the same determination. I have some enlargements of these decorations on my Ninja web page: (URL) history section starts at: (URL) It is not yet complete, and may have some mistakes, but gives you an idea of what I'm trying (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) ROFL! I like it. Hmm, now I want to make soem Mongol warriors to sweep acroass the soft white underbelly of the Castle-era civilization... (...) I have a sheep, but it's slightly larger than minifig scale really - almost as tall as a minifig. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I've already got plans to add a garderobe to my Castle... J (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:39:32 GMT, Bob Fay uttered the following profundities... (...) Shark has no flavour. An interesting texture, but no flavour. A waste. (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| SNIP (...) SNIP SOME OF THE NATIVES OF THE AMAZON CONCIDER ROAST TARANTULA A DELICASY(PARDON MY SPELLING + THE CAPS) RAVI(OFF TOPIC-I KNOW) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| The one thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is the octopus in the diver sets. A popular food in several parts of the world. And have cats been mentioned? (Okay, I just said that to get people's blood up... :) ) (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The main idea of my post was that these Central Asia nations (such as Mongols, Kazachs, Kirgizhs etc.) use horses as one of main domestic animals (sheep too). They drink horses' milk, they eat horses' meat, they use horses' skins for clothes (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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