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Re: Arctic or Antarctic? Lego is clueless about the hemispheres!
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Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:28:37 GMT
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I hadn't noticed the Arctic/Antarctic thing but, one thing you do get if you buy
6586 as part of the TRU value pack is a very neet little ice stab thing like
this (can't think of name) which fits with your idea of mountains..
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C Ya
Tim
> I just opened and built 6586 Arctic Polar Scout (orange snowmobile with
> trailer). This is my first Arctic set.
>
> The set itself is pretty and the minifig with the fur-lined hood is cute but
> the set is otherwise not exciting. Too many specialised parts (without good
> reason) in my opinion.
>
> However, I was gobsmacked to turn to the back page of the instructions and
> see a photo collage, in which at least 3 of the 4 main photos used were
> actually of the Antarctic. Now maybe I'm just a bit of a pedant, but 1 of
> the photos included the word "Antarctic" in large letters on a snowmobile,
> another one was of the Amunsden-Scott base at the South Pole (and this can
> be read from the sign over the entrance, even if you didn't instantly
> recognise it), and the third was of penguins which do not exist in the
> Arctic.
>
> Although there is no text saying "These are photos of the Arctic", the box
> has the word "Arctic", the set contains a polar bear (only found in the
> Arctic) and an outline map of Greenland and thereabouts is part of the
> collage. So I think including photos of the Antarctic is somewhat
> misleading, especially for children.
>
> The rest of the collage could be either Arctic or Antarctic; I couldn't see
> anything distinguishing either way.
>
> In a way it is curious that Lego made the theme Arctic rather than
> Antarctic. There is a lot more scope for an Antarctic theme in my opinion.
> Just imagine white BURPs to form Antarctic mountains and glaciers with long
> deep crevasses for kids to crash their snowmobiles into. All those bright
> red research stations and emergency huts. There is diving through the ice
> (opportunities to reuse some of the Aquazone elements), and lots of zodiacs
> (the yellow dinghie thingies) and helicopters and ice breakers. Admittedly
> some of these ideas could have been used in an Arctic series too, but Lego
> didn't.
>
> Kerry
>
> --
> ============
> Kerry Raymond
> kerry@dstc.edu.au
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