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Re: Lego 2000 and Beyond (was Re: Sadly a look at this group...)
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Date: 
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 22:31:28 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> 
> > Nope, but my prediction was that if Adventurers continued, we would not see a
> > return of Pirates.  We may never see a return in any case.  One can hope for
> > 2001, but perhaps Pirates is just too out of style, and something hipper • makes
> > more sense to Lego.  I'd like to know the answer just for my own piece of
> > mind,but they play their cards close to the gravy stains.
> 
> A pox on your predictions, Bruce!

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!  :-)

> 
> A return of the Pirate/Soldier themes is the SINGULAR thing TLG could do to
> forever mend the extant rift between it and AFOL.  The new 2000 lineup looks
> good, a giant step in the right direction in fact, but its still not quite
> fully on target -- the whole target!

Rock Raiders.  Eyuck.  I'd love to see those dumped for Pirates, but remember
what I said about "hipper".

> 
> I want more 1700s themes, dammit!  If I can't have Pirates and Soldiers, how
> about a colonial village, or London in the era of Moll Flanders or Barry
> Lyndon, or a Castillian castle and REAL conquistadors?

Great for adult displays, not so good as toys for kids.  Wish for Pirates: that
at least has a ghost of a chance.

> 
> How about Lego Empire, or Lego Baroque?  Rococo?

Ghost of a chance is better than absolutely none.  You are just torturing
yourself.  ;-)

> 
> Lego Solomon Kane?


Now who the heck knows who Solomon Kane is?  (no, don't explain, Robert E.
Howard character, but I know all sorts of useless trivia so I don't count)

> Couldn't they just make a series of Soldier accessory packs?  I can't be alone
> in wanting to fill a field with soldiers of two kinds and muskets -- and I
> guess Blue and Red is easiest (Redcoats and Prussians?).  And of course, this
> was a huge missed opportunity in Wild West -- speaking of the Blue and the
> Grey conflict...
> 
> -- Richard

It would be very nice if they made Soldier accessory packs - a bit more early
1800s than 1700s, but at least you're in the ballpark.  English and French.
But independent of a supporting theme....(BANG!  Thud.  Piano player doesn't
get to finish sentence about not having even a ghost of a....BANG!
RATATATATAT!  Thud)

Bruce



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  Lego 2000 and Beyond (was Re: Sadly a look at this group...)
 
(...) A pox on your predictions, Bruce! A return of the Pirate/Soldier themes is the SINGULAR thing TLG could do to forever mend the extant rift between it and AFOL. The new 2000 lineup looks good, a giant step in the right direction in fact, but (...) (27 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)

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