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Re: Minifig packs - page updated
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sun, 11 Jun 2000 23:13:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Manfred Moolhuysen writes:
> >
> > > Pictures and details at:
> > >
> > > http://www.geocities.com/jondhayward/LegoMinifigPacks.html
> >
> > Thanks, Jon.
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is really significant, but I noticed that:
> >
> > a. Only one of the "City Heros" is female,
> > b. They made her a crossing guard, and
> > c. She appears to be identical to the "Town Folks" cop, except
> > that her face is hidden by an opaque visor.
> >
> > Conspiracy theories, anyone? ;-)
>
> Isn't "crossing guard" a bit of a harsh judgement in this case? Are female
> crossing guards normaly dressed in leather biking gear? To me she looks more
> like the kind of cop that makes you pull over for an alcohol control.
> In the same spirit, there's only 1 female amongst in the rock raiders, in the
> #3 pack. Not a very healty ratio for their long term survival.
One thing you have to remember is that most of TLC's customers are boys age 5-
12. Therefore they try to make the sets out to please them. When you are a kid
you make believe that this minifig is "me" and pretend that you are doing
cerain things in the LEGO town, space, castle etc. (at least thats what I
did) :) If the vast majority of people who buy LEGO are male it makes no
sense for TLC to make a 50:50 ratio of male/female. I personally would love to
see more female figs, but we have to keep in mind that TLC caters more to
children than to us.
-Rich
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