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Re: who's feelin the black pack?
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Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:11:34 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Damien Nesbit writes:
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> > ...or the classic tale of genocide and ethnic
> > cleansing, Cowboys and Indians. How does one ignore the political • foundations
> > of these sets?
> Wild West, on the other
> hand, has soldiers in uniforms with "US" on the buckle. Yikes! Since getting
> a grown-up perspective of history, I've always felt kind of weird about
> "cowboys and indians" as a play theme.
Be very VERY careful with this assertion... TLG has NEVER made any indication
that the Cowboys were vs the indians... If you'll note, every one of the
adversarial themes TLG has produced has some character crossover (IE: a badguy
"prisoner" captured by the goodguys and included in the large goodguy set).
They never produced a set that had both a cowboy and an indian, as far as I
remember. In fact, the badguys in the cowboy theme were bank robbers. (I don't
think the indian theme had any badguys). Take a look at the copy of the 1997
IHTICWI catalog... They are listed on facing pages, with no mention of the
cowboys on the indians page and no mention of the indians on the cowboys page.
--Karim
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| (...) You're right, of course. There are no Indians in the Cowboy sets, or vice-versa. I think closing your eyes to the idea that this is how the toys were, to some extent, expected to be played with is a little naive, though. And it doesn't change (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: who's feelin the black pack?
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| (...) don't (...) I never saw the marketing for this, I only assumed. Good call. So is it just our societal assumptions that pits the blue clad US soldiers vs. the "indians"? Ehhhhh... I still think it was risky, on TLG's part. They MIGHT have been (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Well, I think that of the three you noted (Pirates, Knight's Kingdom, Wild West) this one was the one where TLC was treading the most dangerous ground. The others are pretty clearly in a fantasy realm (Pirating and Privateering had many (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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