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Re: Cars, Trucks, & other essentials.
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lugnet.town
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Fri, 5 Nov 1999 08:02:01 GMT
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I think the yellow colour is good. Tan would look awful, as well as a pink
colour. If the minifigs had different colours, then people would be mad and
say "TLG is bad and evil! If not, then why did they include one (insert
colour of your choice here) minifig and three (insert another colour here)
minifigs?"
Yellow works good, I like it.
--Tobias
<SNIP>
> fact that no matter how many Hitlers, Napoleons, and Klans pop up, all the
> people in the world will never be "yellow". This is why the field commander • of
> my new space outfit is one of the 2 first brown-skinned LEGO minifigs • created
> for my usage. (There is also a black businessman sitting in my bank for
> Datsville. (see lugnet.cad.dat.models)) The only coincidence in transport • is
> that Northwest Airlines (the carrier in the Memphis International Airport • with
> over 40% of the working slots) has a whole fleet of red, white, & gray
> aircraft. Most other American carriers (except for the brown Southwest
> Airlines) have primarily blue & white outfits. Evergreen (duh), Burlington • Air
> Express & the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railroad have green-based • color
> schemes.
> By the way, the latest "recycle truck" has a blue color scheme. However, in
> Memphis, the regular garbage trucks are solid white (except for the garbage
> stains ;{ ) and the recycle trucks are tan & brown (and do not have wheels • like
> monster trucks!) Corporate trash companies usually have their own color
> schemes. Also they do not provide the illusion of recycling (unless that's
> their protocol) by placing a recycle icon on the side of the truck. With
> Construction vehicles, yellow & black are usually the only colors around
> (except for privately contracted cement mixers & truck cranes). However, • I'm
> thinking of going with orange, or even day-glow green & purple (see
> Transformers' Constructions)! You would drop your jaw if a fleet of bright
> green (0, 255, 0) trucks came down your street. A set I plan to offer TLG
> involves a vintage orange sports car and a black cruiser entitled "Ridge
> Runners." If it looks good, I want to make use of the suspension spring • wheel
> plates (in dark gray or blue). Otherwise, I want to de-"Town Jr." the next
> millenium's town collection. If anyone wants to help me with that project • (esp.
> if they use LDraw/LEdit), they're welcome to join me with the promise that • they
> recieve full credit if TLG becomes interested.
> If anyone wants to offer future advice on Town or Space sets or a merger
> between both (that's better looking than Space Port's rockets & shuttles),
> reply and I'll find time to reply. Thank you for reading this far.
> James J.
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| (...) Exactly, and if they put "Generic African American" Minifig in a construction set the NAACP would get on their case for implying that heaven forbid, a black person might just happen to be a construction worker and not scientist of the year. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) It does help out some. However, I've been asking myself the question can't things be a little less monotonous? Most LEGO equipment is based upon rules and roads in Denmark & other corners of western Europe (hence the white dotted line streets (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.town)
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