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Re: HP Set Color/Design Choices (was: Second Harry Potter Movie Trailer Released)
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lugnet.harrypotter
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Mon, 2 Jul 2001 04:54:16 GMT
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In lugnet.harrypotter, Matthew Gerber writes:
> In lugnet.harrypotter, Kevin Wilson writes:
> > Matthew Gerber wrote in message ...
> > > In lugnet.harrypotter, Kevin Wilson writes:
> > > > Matthew Gerber wrote in message ...
> > > > > Why are the kids wearing '70s leisure suits?
> > > >
> > > > They aren't, they are wearing Brit-style school uniforms. Shirt, sweater,
> > > > school badge, tie. I wore 'em at grammar school in the UK in the • seventies.
> > > > Hogwarts is, after all, a British boarding school, if a very unusual one • :-)
> > >
> > > No, no, no, no, no...the minifigs!
> >
> > Well I dunno, I'm looking at this page:
> > http://www.1000steine.de/harrypotter/sets/teile/
> > at the detail pics of 4704 and 4706, and I see minifigs in shirt/tie/sweater
> > with school badge. I agree the capes look pretty dumb, but I don't see any
> > polyester leisure suits :-) Where are you seeing them?
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> I tried to point you to the thread where I brought this up before,but here
> is a link right to the Creator box art as was discussed there:
> http://www.geocities.com/loch_forest/hpbox.html
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> Also, see the non-detail pictures from 1000steine from the "First True Harry
> Potter Pics!" threads: http://www.1000steine.de/harrypotter/
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> Now, if you haven't yet, go to http://www.harrypotter.com and see the
> stills, and the trailers. Notice where the kids are wearing black pants and
> cloaks-not monotone grey leisure suits and starry capes.
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> For some reason, LEGO is making VERY weird color/design choices for their
> Potter sets. I don't understand it at all. It seems to me that the movie is
> dead-on...just the way the students, Hogwarts, Hogwarts Express, and all
> SHOULD look...where LEGO gets orange tables, purple chairs, tiny train
> wheels, and starry capes is beyond me.
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> HTH,
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> Matt
Maybe the license was under condition that a certain percentage of it to be
changed from the original say 20% or so. Maybe it was cheaper to do it like
this too? I am not sure, I do not know... any reason is possible though.
Maybe it might have something to do with Warners? Or maybe Lego decided to
tie in a few ideas with the sets too, and come up with something just a
little slightly different?... Or even Lego could have suggested that all the
other toys co's are too similar and decided to opt differently? I guess
there are only a few people who really do know the reason why.
Mel... it doesn't matter really does it?
I personally like the colours :)
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