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Re: Lego Space Trading Cards?!
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:44:46 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Steve Burge wrote:
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I always thought:
Black - Commander (Because there’s so few of them)
Blue - Lieutenant
Yellow - Scientist (They always get the scanning gear/diggers)
White - Mechanic/Worker
Red - Pilot (You always get Red chaps with space ships)
How did everyone else categorise their space-figs?
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Hmmm, my figs never really had a chain of command - but there was a seniority
thing happening, based loosley on when they first made their way into my
childhood collection:
White/Red - the originals, the guys who got it done. Meat & Potatoes.
Although, the red fig is a little flashier now that I think about it 20 years
later.
Yellow - “Series 2” guys, newer to the group, usually techies (weren’t they big
in the geology vehicles?)
Black - Hotshots. Supposedly better than the yellow guys, maybe better pilots &
weapons handlers. I think they came out at the same time, but I didn’t have
any, so they were treated as the enemy.
I didn’t have a black fig when we used to play outside; the kids across the
street had alot, and always used them when we played Lego ships (my god, we
played outside with Lego...). Anyway, I didn’t have one and I resented the
black fig, because black was the “cool” color, and I HATED that. To this day,
whenever a sports team introduces a third jersey, in “alternate color” black, I
throw up in my mouth. Black is NOT an alternative color!! It’s a cop-out!! I
don’t resent the black fig anymore, and actually somewhat dig the Blacktron I
fig I got with the original Space Police sets. But black can’t touch....
Blue - I got a Blue fig with the Space Dart I (I think), and used that fig for
all of my ships for outdoor play. The kids with the black figs never saw the
blue one, because it was newer, and were jealous. Not being the confident man I
am today, I swelled up with pride at that jealousy.
To this day, the blue fig holds a special place in my heart. The blue fig suit
serves as my SigFig: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=498576.
There was never a hierarchy amongst my figs; everyone had a job and they did it.
I don’t even like the color blue. But the blue fig definitely got preferrential
treatment - top floor accomodations, best ship on the base, the black motorcycle
(it was the only motorcycle I had, and was a treasured commodity on the base.
Now everybody gets Quarks.)
But that blue fig, man...... wow.
Nick
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| I always thought: Black - Commander (Because there's so few of them) Blue - Lieutenant Yellow - Scientist (They always get the scanning gear/diggers) White - Mechanic/Worker Red - Pilot (You always get Red chaps with space ships) How did everyone (...) (21 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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