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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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On 30 Dec. 1999, in lugnet.western, David little writes: "...the pirate era was [when] most of the slave trading [ocurred] and lego avoided that just as they could with the Civil War sets." I'm all for African minifigs. I want minifig heads in all (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.western)
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(...) I read somewhere here that Lego only does yellow heads to stay away from race issues. Is this actually true? Has anyone confirmed this with Lego? Earlier I had just took the yellow head thing for gospel when I read it. Honestly I don't see (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.western)
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In lugnet.western, David Little writes: I whole heartedly agree on this one, if Lego wants to do something, it gets done, the star wars contract is a good example of that. I for one stopped waiting for black minifigs years ago. I've been making my (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.western)
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(...) attributing my post to david little. I'm terribly sorry. Jon (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.western)
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I just recieved an email from Jon Furman that included jpegs of his homemade nubian minifigs. They are really the motts and anyone who has followed this conversation that has not requested to recieve them from him really should get in touch. Also, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.western)
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In thinking about the future of wild west possibilities, especially when combining WW with adventurers, the possibilities really are cool. The two time periods are the closest together of all the sets. You could set the time period towards the late (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.western)
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[notice "follow-up"] (...) I've done this myself. I've got several WW figs that were originally Adv., and vice-versa. [snip] (...) [expression type="smirk"] Do tell... Why, yes, now that you ask, I *have* made a tommy-gun for my minifigs. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) I was wondering has anyone seen the rock raiders set 1276 in stores anywhere. I have not been able to find them in the stores here. I just thought that it would be a lot less costly to buy a bunch of 1276 than the whole minifig pack to get the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.western)
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(...) They're in Japan, attached to candy. Alan (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.western)
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(...) I wanted to point out that the kepi is now available in brown now in the new Adventurers series. Cheapest set with it is the Research Glider (I think the set number is 5921). See this post for some info about it: (URL) Frank Filz ---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.western)
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