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Subject:	Re: Ninja vs. "real" Castle (was: Re: More news on 2000 lineup!)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general, lugnet.castle
Date:	Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:40:25 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote: <snip> > This is what I responded to. It appears that this person refers > Ninja to more traditional Castle subthemes. I never understood why Ninja was a Castle subtheme...to me the two series are unrelated and just because the sets represent the same era, they took place in different parts of the world and I don't see any thematic connection between them. Why not consider Ninja a separate theme? > I still maintain the Ninja subtheme sucks. I don't see how anyone > could prefer it to real Castle stuff. While I don't prefer Ninja over Castle, I *love* the Ninja sets. I like them for these reasons: Color combinations...esp. the black, red and white with a touch of gray...I really like how these colors look together. Shapes...I love the corrugated walls and sloping pieces and the way they were put together to form an arcitectural *style*. Story potential...there's lots of possibility for creative play in these sets Some other factors that make these sets appealing to me are: part selection multicultural aspect of the sets (*) (*) This is the first subtheme that really pulled this off, I think. I don't mean that these sets are PC or anything, but I think they are a good effort of showing a different, historical culture in an educational way. Lego is, IMHO, very Euro-Centric and I like that they attempted something different this time. <snip> -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu http://members.xoom.com/brickenplate/index.html

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		Re: Ninja vs. "real" Castle (was: Re: More news on 2000 lineup!)
(...) Well, they both represent Fuedal periods in their respective cultures, and I assume that is why they are "Castle" sets. When you said "era", did you mean that they were both fuedal, or that they existed at the same time? If the latter, you're (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)

		Re: Ninja vs. "real" Castle (was: Re: More news on 2000 lineup!)
(...) Hey, Space stuff takes place on different planets...why can't Castle take place in different parts of the world? :) (...) Well, Ninja is a separate theme from the classic castle sets, as well as from Fright Knights, Dragon Masters, Royal (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)

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		Re: Ninja vs. "real" Castle (was: Re: More news on 2000 lineup!)
(...) This is what I responded to. It appears that this person refers Ninja to more traditional Castle subthemes. I still maintain the Ninja subtheme sucks. I don't see how anyone could prefer it to real Castle stuff. (...) Maybe. (...) I didn't (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)

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