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Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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lugnet.western
Date: 
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:01:37 GMT
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In lugnet.western, David Little writes:
> In lugnet.western, Jonathan Little writes:
> > In lugnet.western, David Little writes:
> > 
> > > I think they will go back to Wild west within the next three to four years.
> > > For now they are too busy with star wars and some of the other new themes. • If
> > > we show more interest here for the western theme than in the past maybe they
> > > will take notice.
> > > I definately would like to see a civil war theme! There is just too much • left
> > > to be done with this theme.  Too many ways to expand it.  You could even
> > > modernize the pirates a little to fit the time line of the west.
> > > 
> > > We need more wild west.
> > > David
> > 
> > A Civil War theme would be great!!  They can have little forts, or some of
> > the armored ships that started to appear then! Tons of playset possibilites
> > . . . .
> > 
> > -Jonathan
> 
> Now were talking.  Who else wants a Civil War theme?
> David

I do!!!
Cool...
An Abraham Limcoln minifig...
Black slaves...

Black?
There's a problem here.
How would TLC deal with the issues of racism, slaves, etc.?
Up till now, there weren't any black-white-minorities issues, since all
minifigs were yellow. (Chinese, maybe? :-)
I remember some comments (can't remember who, though) about the fact that TLC
avoided racesim issues by not giving the minifigs a race at all.
So how would they make slaves, or slavers, without changing the minifigs faces?

Hmmm...

Any suggestions?

-Shiri



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  Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
 
(...) faces? (...) Go to the .starwars group, they've been debating the race issue for at least a week. Karl Martinson raymart@jam21.net (27 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
  Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
 
(...) faces? (...) That is where TLC will run into a problem. All minifigs are yellow so that any child, of any race can relate to them. no other toy on the market is as neutral as lego. for example the are 4 diffrent types of the same barbie doll- (...) (27 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)

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(...) If (...) Now were talking. Who else wants a Civil War theme? David (27 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)

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