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Re: Its alive...ITS ALIVE!!!!!!! (shoutouts)
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Sun, 3 Jun 2001 17:29:01 GMT
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In lugnet.western, Jon Furman writes:
> Woohoo! The life is back in the WW newsgroup!! I love you guys. Nate,
> Joel, Dave Little, Greg, and the rest of you! Every day I check this group
> and pray for new posts, and bang, today is my lucky day!
Thank you Jon - your enthusiasm has helped to whip up additional interest in
me for the Western theme. I "went West" initially due to my interest in
putting together some Confederate troops. From there I started to try and
scrounge up a few Union soldiers for my boys to whup up on.
Previously, I had bought a couple of the smaller sets that I had seen on
clearance (Indian Chief and Frontier Patrol*). I then stumbled across a
Bandit's Secret Hideout set on K-Mart clearance. Once I've started really
studying the various mini-figs (faces and clothing) I became more and more
interested in pursuing further sets. I've added a couple of of the Indian
sets (which I've expressed big appreciation of previously in this forum) and
now I'm totally hooked.
What I need to do now (that's I've amassed a decent collection) is start
building a Western setting so I can get in on the fun.
(snipped some stuff related to Nate's great pictures)
> Greg, Thanks for the tip about Tuesday Morning. They are quite sparse
> here in the northwest, so I'll have to get over there right away. That
> Gabarro face is perfect for rough and tumble baddies.
You're welcome - I hit another T.M. yesterday after our RichLUG meeting and
managed to grab another 11 copies of the 5902 set. I'm slowing building up
to battalion strength!
> Joel, I loved the Looney tunes references. I laughed pretty hard at the
> acme stuff. I never realized how much of an influence those roadrunner
> cartoons had on my idea of what the desert should look like.
I didn't post in the other thread but I do want to add my praise to the
others for the desert setting with the orange bricks. Awesome! I also dug
the Road Runner references.
> I've just now started posting what I've been working on for about 6months,
> so there is a lot of stuff going up right now. I've been super busy with
> work, so this is the first chance I've had to post. I'm a little
> overwhelmed by the response to the pirate village, but I'm excited about the
> WW possibilities. Those pumpkin packs are only 9 bucks, and that a lot of
> parts. using those pieces should really spice up the Native american sets!
> Lets keep up the chatter in the ww! Jon
Thanks again for sharing the pictures - both sets (pirate village and
desert) were brill and very inspirational. I think I'm going to go ahead
and order some of those orange bricks too - even though my primary purpose
would be to have the material to build my BBQ restaurant (based on local
chain that has an orange/yellow/black color scheme) it will be cool to have
them for Western scenes too. That just made the thought pop into my mind
that a huge collection of colored bricks (particularly in pastel shades)
could be used to build a painted desert scene - who's up for that challenge?
Finally - I'll try and do my part to keep the chattering going.
G.
*I bought a couple of the Frontier Patrol's for a couple of bucks apiece on
TRU clearance. Boy do I wish I'd scooped up all they had now that I want to
build an army and find that sellers want 10 or 12 bucks for these sets. Oh
well, such is the life of a brickhead - I guess I can dream of Fort Legoredo
being on of the classic set re-issues in the future.
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| (...) I for one would love to see a reissue of Fort Legoredo. I truly consider it to be one of the few masterpieces (Black Seas Barracuda, Yellow Castle, Galaxy Explorer, to name a few) that Lego has produced. It's sheer number of parts, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-01, to lugnet.western)
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| Woohoo! The life is back in the WW newsgroup!! I love you guys. Nate, Joel, Dave Little, Greg, and the rest of you! Every day I check this group and pray for new posts, and bang, today is my lucky day! First, Nate, I love those Confederates. that's (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-01, to lugnet.western)
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