Subject:
|
Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.western
|
Date:
|
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:29:46 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
5799 times
|
| |
|
|
D. Jezek <danjezek@REMOVEaloha.net> wrote:
> The western theme was excellent with great pieces, great
> minifigs, great color schemes and overall truly excellent overall models. • The
> models weren't even juniorized
I definitely disagree here. IMHO the models were juniorized indeed: just
think of the bank, general store, and bandits' hideout!
, even though there were some BURPs (cough,
> cough) in some of the sets.
Another oddity was the assemblage of the four Fort Legoredo parts. Why
didn't they use bricks with side pegs (just as in the early Castle sets!) to
connect the four walls? I don't understand this.....
> These two occurences of a short series of wild west sets were only about • 20
> years apart and I hope it will be shorter than that before some new wild • west
> sets pop up again! Although I hope that the future wild west sets will • not be
> so hideously juniorized like the new castle sets.
I'm afraid the Wild West theme won't be continued, it doesn't seem to be
very popular if you compare the number of contributions in this newsgroup to
the ones in lugnet.castle or lugnet.pirates..... unfortunately!
Arnold
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
|
| (...) Hard to say... you are measuring it to a very demanding scale... Pirates and Castle (and Space) are the most popular themes LEGO has produced; it's a hard act to follow. I liked western - some good sets for parting out(1), and decent (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
|
| (...) love (...) I definitely agree. The western theme was excellent with great pieces, great minifigs, great color schemes and overall truly excellent overall models. The models weren't even juniorized, even though there were some BURPs (cough, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
|
102 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
