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(...) Hmmm, I wonder if (to get this back "on topic" for .starwars) if TLG can't acquire a license to "F Troop"...or maybe to "Glory" (but then they'd have to handle race in minifigs, wouldn't they?). Idle speculation, and naturally it's got zero (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Ok, I just think I have to agree with Jonathan on this one. I think that there is interest for the american civil war in europe. I will make my Playmobil reference again. They are a European company and they have civil war sets. See for your (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.western)
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(...) It's because the "Wild West" is a genre of interest in Europe, possibly more than it is here. Very much from the mythological "Cowboys 'n' Injuns" POV, rather than real history. The US Civil War isn't of particular interest to Europeans (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.western)
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Notice "Follow-Up"... (...) [screech!...] [CRASH!!!] You just hit one of my major pet peeves. *I* am a native American citizen. I am *NOT*, however, of the American Indian ethnicity!!! I was _born_ here in the US of A. _ANYONE_ who was _BORN_ within (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm confused. There's all this talk about how Lego won't do a Civil war theme, because it's American and Lego is European. The thing is, the whole western theme is American, in the first place. The whole cowboys and indians (or Native (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Once upon a time it was evident that Lego was not a war toy, back when the castle and space themes were young, but it seems that with each new theme, or introduction of a sub theme Lego is just beggin' the kids to play war with their Legos. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.starwars)
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In lugnet.western, Damien Nesbit writes: Just to suggest how you might incorporate a variety of time periods into (...) Great Ideas. I think that gives me something to work on. I have been going to Fort Pickens here in Pensacola which is a civil war (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.western)
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I to would love to see lando make it into lego. I just think something would be missing if he didn't. About lego not doing civil war sets, I would not rule it out. Remember Playmobil is a european company and they do american civil war figures. Lego (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Hi Gary, that's really interesting. I hadn't heard of those bricks before (and I'm a quite new Lugnet reader, so I missied your old post). Thanks for posting it again! Regards, Ben (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yeah, the message that I'm replying to is a couple months old, but I've gotta add my $.02 'cos this deals with some issues that are important to me. I didn't go back through the .starwars discussions to find where exactly the race issue comes (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.starwars)
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