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Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:06:43 GMT
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Gary Istok wrote:
> Mr L F Braun wrote:
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> > Gary Istok wrote:
> > > And now for something LEGO.... they should make a QE1 minifig. Actually they
> > > should also make a Henry VIII and his 6 wives minifigs as well. At least the
> > > portly Henry VIII would be pretty true to minifig scale (fat). It would be great
> > > for the castle series. As a lover of European history (and especially English
> > > history), these might even make me finally break down and actually "like"
> > > minifigs.
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> > The best part, of course, being that one can recreate Anne Boleyn c.1537 and Catherine
> > Howard c.1541 without actually "breaking" the minifigs. ;) However, I wonder how
> > they'd simulate the Incredible Expanding Henry with a standard torso...maybe they
> > really *will* make a Cartman just to have an additional use? I think he was even
> > wider than minifig girth with respect to height by the time of his death.
> >
> > LFB, your local historian of Britain.
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> Ah ha! A keeper of the Royal Anecdotes.....
Not really--I'm a nineteenth-century specialist. (I've got the Victoria ones down pretty
well, though.) But I'll probably visit old Saxe-Coburg this next fall. Are there any
monuments there to him? I'm sure that the money was made available by the grieving Victoria,
else by a minister (koff koff Disraeli koff) looking to curry favour. The architecture is
stunning, though--especially in a truly ancient college town like Oxford. (I made my first
trip there in August to consult the Bodleian/Rhodes House.) Now I can see where you get your
inspiration, Gary--it explains a lot of your Gothicness.
However...I'm still a dyed-in-the-wool green-and-white MSU Spartan (and EMU Huron) so maybe
I'm not *100%* acceptable to your sensibilities. ;) My uncle is an architect in Ann Arbor,
however; he occasionally does U-M buildings (but passed on the new uglier UGLI) despite a
rather stormy history between he and they.
> intertwined with the history of Britains royals. My college minor was History, and I've
> read up on all the monarchs, even those before the conquest (1066).
I want a separable arrow so that I can make a Harold Godwinson minifig...and do you think I
could find a brown beard piece for [insert Anglo-Saxon monarch name here]?
> And now for some LEGO.... yes for a Henry VIII minifig we would need something on the order
> of a "Cartman" (from Southpark TV show - we have to remember that people the world over read
> this stuff). Didn't someone see a "Kenny" minifig recently (does his head come off
> easily?).
That appears to be a new "cap" piece on an Extreme Team Ariel minifig head. It was green--I
forget the URL but it's from a scan of the "new" minicatalogue. However, as soon as it
appears in orange, the jig is gonna be up. Even before that, I can see mods showing up
instantly.
> Gee we could have a new line of minifigs whose heads don't stay on
> real well. On the one hand we could have the wives of Henry VIII who lost their heads
> made of this minifig type. And then we could have a Southpark (a cartoon) style minifig
> for Kenny (who gets killed off in almost every episode (those Bastards!) usually involving
> losing his head or the like) that also has a hard time keeping its head on. And then the
> Cartman/Henry VIII minifig could be..... well shall we say "portly".
On the downside, *all* minifigs might end up like this. It might end up reinforcing spherical
body norms much the way that the Little People "modernization" did. But for a middle-age
Henry, the Armada fig with the green shirt and some green legs with the right head can do the
job--add the silver armor for added "bulginess."
> Off on a tangent today....
Same here (sort of),
Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| (...) Ah ha! A keeper of the Royal Anecdotes..... LFB, I too love British history. Maybe since I was born less than a mile from Schloss Rosenau near Coburg Germany - the birthplace of "dear Albert", Prince Consort of Queen Victoria, and the the (...) (27 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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