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Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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Date: 
Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:06:43 GMT
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Gary Istok wrote:

Mr L F Braun wrote:

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.

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.

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 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

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