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Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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lugnet.western
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:10:50 GMT
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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 own with brown
paint and sculpy. Any one who wants to see pictures can reply and I'll e-mail
them to you in Jpg format. right noww I've got them in an urban setting with
a lowered cadillac and a boombox. Their hairpieces are all weaves Afros, or
minidreadlocks. i have different hair for different systems, and they look
cool incorporated into other timeperiods as Buffalo Soldiers, Natives, high
powered execs, etc.
As for confederate soldiers, you can easily incorporate two of the rock
raiders crew and the ship pilot from the adventurers set "river expedition"
into your rag tag johnny rebs. The Amazon adventurers series has a couple of
minifigs that translate well to the wild west system. The gray shirted bandit
with teo pistols in his waistband looks great with the grey, or black cavalry
hat. I've got Jpegs of my "Ghosts of the confederacy" menace too.
My western ste is going to be set just after the war, so there will be
renegade confederates as well as bandits and indians causing problems for the
town.
> In lugnet.western, Damien Nesbit writes:
> > 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 shades of
> > brown and in betwween. Imagine a shipful of slave trade escapees turned
> > pirates and terrorizing the seas of the carribbean. It's gotta start with
> > Lando and Mace! Let's Organize! How do we campaign for lego to create this?
> > Who's e-mail can we flood?
> > I'm ready.
> > Damien
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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 what the big deal would be if they did make other ethnic
> figs. What is there reasoning if this is true? Maybe I will write Lego and
> find out if I don't hear anything back.
> David
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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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| (...) 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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