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Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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lugnet.western
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Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:13:54 GMT
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In lugnet.western, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.western, Jonathan Little wrote:
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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 AMERICANS) thing is from US history. If Lego never does
> > a Civil war theme, I don't see how it would have anything to do with the
> > fact that Lego is a European company.
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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 (especially European *kids*).
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> So, if we ever get a Civil War theme, I would expect it to be developed
> in Enfield, not Billund.
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> Steve
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 self
http://www.playmobilshop.com/USA.catalog/38d8018e0415d9de273fd472aa63069d/Catal
og/1012
I think that they see it as interesting just as I see the zulu wars as
interesting to me. Why else would a well know European company sell American
civil war toys. You might have said that ninja's in lego would never happen
because there is no interest for them in Europe about five years ago. I think
that says it all.
David
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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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| (...) 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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