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Re: Soccer sets, thumbs up
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Date: 
Fri, 16 Jun 2000 00:46:00 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richard Parsons writes:
> Now I did already post about this last night, but since it doesn't seem to
> have shown up anywhere, I'll fire again (and I'll keep <<expletive indicating
> dogged commitment deleted>> firing until I hit something ;-)

Maybe it's the shifts, the loc.au posters post in, at night I can see, but
not post, I need to remember to reply the next day.

> In lugnet.loc.au, David Low writes:
> > Maybe you could use redbeard torsos.
> 
> Mmmm.  Actually, the Port Block Pirates wear the blue jacket over the red and
> white striped undershirt, and white duds.  And while the Pirates haven't yet
> registered their colours, I note (for the benefit of the rest of you out there
> forming up your teams) that the Pirates have some nasty big pointy cutlasses.

Will your team have an away 'strip' (I believe the Matildas have one).

> > And are peglegs allowed to play?
> 
> Yup, but the oversized studs that the players stand on are too high for pegs,
> so peg legs must play with their best peg forward.  The only real downside
> with this is that if he gives is a fair roost, he tends to follow through and
> end up a bit stooped - maybe that's just extra realism?

Maybe they will bring out a Paralympics approved field.
Or knowing pirates, maybe that should be a Paralytic field.

> > A few questions:
> > 
> > (1) With the big price reductions, is anyone still interested in doing some
> > sort of Legoz combined stadium? I'm guessing most people will get some of the
> > sets, if just for the bricks, but I still think it would be a cool way for us
> > to own Lego in common. We could donate spare minifigs for spectators, TV • crew,
> > linesmen, serial pests (who could forget the World Cup qualifier in
> > Melbourne?) and so on.

I can see a timmy tugging on the crossbar, and maybe an Arctic Kenny getting
squashed when it falls.

> At these prices I bought a bus and the field, and have no immediate plans
> (although Pia has already explained to me that I'll need a red bus for the
> Port Block Privates (red coats).  In any event, I will have plenty of figs
> available rent a crowd style, and the local magistrate's court would be only
> to pleased to provide referrees and linesmen.
> 
> > (2) Is an AFL adaption possible? (I'd like to see that!!! (cue -- everyone
> > groaning)) Maybe we can think of some rules for taking marks, tackling etc.
> 
> Don't see it myself.  To begin with, how would you get their shorts up their
> crack?  And if you can't do that, Pia tells me its not AFL.  Mind you, we
> could model a mean maggot ;-)

They would have to be Technic sized as well.

> > (3) Do we get the women's conversion kit (hair and heads) that seems to be
> > have been released in America?
> 
> Already got a women's team now (a head here, hair there).  And since in the
> Legoverse women are the equal of the men in every way except beauty (in which
> way the women are superior, or not obviously, and not that there's anything
> wrong with that) its bound to be a decent match, no?

Transgender, Crossgender, all depends on who is on the ends of the Hands of
God.
> 
> And I agree with Santosh, the game's a blast.  I reckon my sons and I will be
> giving it a punishing, and as a work colleague has already suggested, we might
> need one for the toy table at work :-)

I think this is potentially the greatest crossover toy (to adult use), that
Lego has ever created.

pete.w <aquanaut@optusnet.com.au>



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Now I did already post about this last night, but since it doesn't seem to have shown up anywhere, I'll fire again (and I'll keep <<expletive indicating dogged commitment deleted>> firing until I hit something ;-) (...) Mmmm. Actually, the Port (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)

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