To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.westernOpen lugnet.western in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Western/Wild West / 42
41  |  43
Subject: 
Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.western
Date: 
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:00:26 GMT
Viewed: 
7577 times
  
In lugnet.western, Dave Schuler writes:
Besides which, does the worldwide community really care about the U.S. Civil
War?  Wild West has adopted a sort of generic cultural appeal which I don't
think the Civil War has achieved.

Then why not release them U.S. exclusive at least,
I know it would be a big seller in the U.S.
(see http://www.lugnet.com/western/?n=38 )

When is Lego going to produce English Civil War sets?
What were the imperial's in the pirate line?

Or how about a
commemorative Zulu uprising line?  They've already made pith helmets suitable
for the British regulars...

And the Islanders?

-John Rudy



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
 
(...) Civil (...) Great points! Besides the fact that during the pirate era was most of the slave trading and lego avoided that just as they could with the Civil War sets. David (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
 
(...) Regardless of what the Civil War *was* about, a lot of the current study and, more importantly, social relevance *is* about slavery. If Lego were making Civil War sets 135 years ago, maybe they wouldn't need to represent slavery. But now, to (...) (25 years ago, 30-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
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR