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(...) I've only bought the Indian set with the chief and a horse because I wanted it for an anthropological museum. I even switched his historically inaccurate spear for one of the Lego rifles and put the feathers on the end of the gun like real (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, here in the US, the Wild West sets have just sat on the shelves! Nobody's been buying them (same with Insectoids and UFO), and a lot of stores have been putting them on sale to try and get them out... I'm guessing that overall they (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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What does the Main street box do in u.s In Holland it goes for about 55 dollars... (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) They sat on shelves in Canada for a long time, as well, although it is getting harder to find them. There's still a few places around that I could get them, but they seem to have disappeared from most retailers' shelves. Could be because TRU (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) $49.99 USD. You can find a lot of this kind of information in the Pause database: (URL) set to lugnet.western] James (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.western)
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Too bad noone liked the theme.....if they did, it could have been a nice and big theme with nice trains and wagons, which btw would not look bad in every town, a nice station. What do u think of the way Lego creates a new theme evry 3 years? If only (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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Hmmm and that is the for sale price?! I hope not..... (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.western)
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David Eaton wrote in message ... (...) that I (...) too! (...) I really like this series. I think that they fit well into the town sets. They are a great "old part of town". Rose (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) What I'd like to know is around when the 3 year period came about. Certainly some time after 1987, when Blacktron, among the first official themes, was introduced. Also, not every series is limited to teh 3 year itch. One that comes readily to (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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Rose wrote about the western theme: (...) Well true...no need to argue 'bout her words! (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) well actually it is a 2 yrs period.. with some exceptions. but 2/3 dont bother it is still too short for some sets.... Starwars...it would be a shame if the x-wing dissapears within' 3 years and don't think TLG would make a mistake like that (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmm, I can't say when the trend started - it was in my dark ages. :/ (...) I think TLG has/is sticking to it pretty closely - although the rotation period seems to vary a bit - Adventurers seems to be a one year cycle, for example. But we have (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've posted ideas about this before, but only in lugnet.starwars. Do you guys think that they will actually reissue some of the StarWars sets a couple years down the road? The X-wing especially, it seems, should be "always available" It is the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I assume this is referring to three-year "theme" (Adventurers, Wild West, etc.) cycles, not "sub-theme" (Cowboys, Indians, etc.). I don't think three years is an accurate assumption: Wild West had two years ('96 - more cowboys/soldiers (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) My thought is that the Adventurers more or less replaced the pirates (Much to every AFOL chagrin). I expect them to do a pirate length run, if they remain popular. My guess is that we will always have the three large themes (castle, town, and (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) the indian sets didn't sell well at all.. and i'm not surprised. they're rather ugly sets, even though they do have some cool parts. the other sets sold pretty well, i think, given that they were a bit overpriced to start out with. (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Interestingly enough, Europeans just love anything to do with the American West, be it Cowboys and Indians, or any other related topic. Back in the 60's and 70's one of the most popular TV shows in Europe was Bonanza (Virgina City Nevada - (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) West, be (...) hmmm....nah normally i dont like western themes, just the lego one. I thought it was going to be a huge theme, and i was there from the beginning. It's like us (...) cathedrals. And (...) seen (...) all.) So you say that peep in (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) No, I was just making a weak analogy about the fact that if grow up with certain things in your own environment, you become sort of "jaded" to it. Like Cowboys & Indians for American kids. What I would like to see in LEGO is a cross between (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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Gary Istok skrev i meddelandet <3822F3CB.AF0D54DF@u...ch.edu>... (...) I *think* the Wild West is really out/off/dead (your favourite word here) here too. At the time 'Bonanza' ran in Sweden, we had one (1!!) TV channel, so everybody watched (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The Japanese love the American West, too, as can be seen in the popularity of such shows as Cowboy Bebop. I don't know how this affected the Lego Western set sales, though. Jeff (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) of (...) Well actually there was/were sets available like these (dunnot care for numbers and am too lazy to look them up, but there are sets in town who look midieval) These were cute...and as you say TLG should make more of these....They (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Oh yes yes, cobblestones or unpaved roads with curves and intersections just like the townie ones... perhaps even on 16x32 or 16x16 plates, since the streets were so narrow then. Maybe a marketplace, or a public hanging; streets of certain (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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Timothy Carl Buchheim wrote in message <38226D10.9CD89938@c...AM.edu>... (...) That's pretty much what happened here in Australia, and even more so. The Indian sets are absolutely everywhere, and the other Western sets are extremely hard to find! I (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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Heather Patey wrote in message ... (...) just (...) streets (...) the (...) I'd buy that for a dollar. It would improve my Imperials Guards towns dramatically. I have to exclude all my town roadplates at present, because they're too neat. Where to I (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) To follow up on my own post, the latest rumor is that Pirates are not returning in 2000, but will in 2001. We'll see... Steve (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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[x-posted to lugnet.western, although it's a bit late now.] (...) Actually, I seem to remember reports that the first wave of Western sets were huge sellers. The main sets--6769 Fort Legoredo, 6765 Gold City Junction, 6755 Sheriff's Lockup and 6761 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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