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Re: Wild West ?!
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 5 Nov 1999 15:52:12 GMT
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Daniel van Berkel wrote:
> Gary writes:
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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
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> 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.
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> It's like us
> > Americans going over to Europe and going gung-ho over castles and • cathedrals. And
> > to paraphrase a 10 year old German boy "if you've seen one Cathedral, you've • seen
> > them all". (Not my personal feelings, my goal is to actually go see them
> all.)
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> So you say that peep in Europe dont like the castle theme or what?!
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> no hard feelings though ;)
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> Dan.
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 Town and Castle. A sort of
European Medieval Town theme, such as Rothenburg, Carcassone, York or Avila. You
could have medieval town buildings, some City Walls, maybe some roadplates with a
crooked street plan.
Gary Istok
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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)
| | | Medieval towns (was Re: Wild West ?!)
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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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| (...) 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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