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Re: who's feelin the black pack?
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lugnet.starwars
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Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:28:09 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Karim Nassar writes:
> 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.
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> --Karim
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
promoting just a western theme . . . I guess maybe I was reading too much into
it. Are the "indians" all scowling? Do they look mean? I acutually do not
own any.
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| (...) Take a look at the copy of the 1997 (...) page. (...) Neither do I, but here is an excerpt from the above copy: "Gallop over the plains free as the wind, build your tepee and canoe down a swift river like the Native Americans... ...Food and (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) foundations (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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