My Indian Village 2009

[Klaus-Dieter]

Hello everybody!

After having shown you My Legoredo some months ago I now want to show you my Indian Village. About two weeks before Christmas I received my last missing Indian set - Boulder Cliff Canyon - from Ebay (of course used since this is not that expensive!).

So here you are: my Indian Village:

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Hello, I'm Klaus-Dieter and I want to show you my Legoredo. So - if you want to - let's make a trip throught this lovely Indian country!

Let's start with a short view over my Indian Village:

Not everybody can enter this Indian village:

But there is even a secret entrance:

Two Indians with canoes are leaving for fishing:

An Indian is with his kayak on his way to the village. Will he bring some good news?

An Indian was injured by a snake:

So the medicine man calls the gods for help:

Whereas some Indians leave for a fight against an other tribe

an Indian woman is cooking

and some Indian kids are playing.

Where is the tribal chief? He is on a trip through the country:

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Commets are welcome!

Klaus-Dieter

Edited February 28, 2009 by Klaus-Dieter

[Zorro]

I love your Indian village, I am jealous of you having so many Western sets!

Great job, Klaus-Dieter.

[WesternOutlaw]

I love it KD!

I must admit that I wasn't a big fan of the Indian sets after obtaining 6746 Chief's Tepee while collecting the Cowboy sets. But after rebuilding a few of these sets after a few years, my appreciation for them has really grown. I actually have the larger sets MISB with plans to one day open them. I'm really glad Lego re-released them through SAH.

As seen in your pictures KD, Boulder Ciff Canyon looks like a great set for playability, as do the majority of the Indian sets. I wish Lego had mixed the Indian and Cowboy sets similar to what Playmobil offered.

I like the entrance to your village and that great little river. The Indian canoes look terrific!

Have you considered using some landscaping and background to your village KD? If I had all those great sets built, I would set them up on a tabletop and add some surface material, and a nice printed background. Your set-up is certainly fantastic though. Great sets!

[Bounty Hunter]

VEry cool villiage. I'm not into western theme, but this is excellant! so many indians adn their jobs! very impressive!

[Klaus-Dieter]

Thank you very much for your nice comments, Zorro, TheBrickster and Bounty Hunter!

I of course voted for Outstanding since it was imo a great theme!

There were a lot of action elements and playability for JFOLs and a lot of great and realistic architecture, landscape and design for AFOLs - so a perfect mixture! The only element which was missing was a medicine man with his tepee and his fire place.

Of course I'd buy some new Indian sets if TLG hopefully will release some in the nearer future!

I love your Indian village, I am jealous of you having so many Western sets!

Great job, Klaus-Dieter.

Thanks, Zorro!

When I was a child I always dreamed of owning all Western and Indian sets. And now a dream became reality!

But mainly the Boulder Cliff Canyon, the Indians Kayak and the Showdown Canyon were sets which were very hard to get since they are offered only very seldom at Ebay - and then mostly even for a (at least for me) not affordable price. But sometimes you only must have luck!

I love it KD!

I must admit that I wasn't a big fan of the Indian sets after obtaining 6746 Chief's Tepee while collecting the Cowboy sets. But after rebuilding a few of these sets after a few years, my appreciation for them has really grown. I actually have the larger sets MISB with plans to one day open them. I'm really glad Lego re-released them through SAH.

As seen in your pictures KD, Boulder Ciff Canyon looks like a great set for playability, as do the majority of the Indian sets. I wish Lego had mixed the Indian and Cowboy sets similar to what Playmobil offered.

I like the entrance to your village and that great little river. The Indian canoes look terrific!

Have you considered using some landscaping and background to your village KD? If I had all those great sets built, I would set them up on a tabletop and add some surface material, and a nice printed background. Your set-up is certainly fantastic though. Great sets!

Thanks, TheBrickster!

For me Western and Indians were always sets which belong together. But of course: If somebody would say: Hands up! Hand me either your Indian sets or your Western sets! then I'd give him the Indian sets and keep the Western sets. But I hope that this case will never happen.

I really plan to set up a big Western/Indian, Castle and City/Town display with landscape and all which belongs to it somewhere in the future. And then I'll surely show you my display, too. But that'll surely take a lot of years since you really need much room (meaning: an own house with a big empty room) for that. So I'll regrettably have to wait a long while. Until then I display my sets from time to time in my semester holidays in my parents' living room (my student digs is not big enough) - the remaining time they doze in some boxes.

VEry cool villiage. I'm not into western theme, but this is excellant! so many indians adn their jobs! very impressive!

Thanks, Bounty Hunter!

Originally I owned the Rapid River Village from 1997. But it wasn't complete. So I bought it again when it was re-released in 2002. And I owned two Rain Dance Ridges, too. But since I now did only built up one of every I own some extra minifigs, too, which add some more live to the village.

The Indian kids were no official minifigs - they are only put together of official minifig parts. The medicin man actually belongs to the Adventure theme but since TLG regrettably didn't include one in all the Indian sets (which is really a shame since every Indian tribe needs a medicine man ) I added him to the village. The toys for the Indian kids I did design myself.

Klaus-Dieter

Edited March 1, 2009 by Klaus-Dieter

[Shoc]

Ooh, that's really nice.

It certainly captures the feel of the original sets (which it should, as it's made of them) and I think they were outstanding. The Achu minifig for Adventurers, although I love it, doesn't really go, but as TLC never released a shaman figure, it will suffice. Nice Indian kids too!

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[Rijkvv]

I voted for "outstanding" and "perhaps".

Outstanding: after the release of the cowboy-themed Western sets in 1996, only the Indians were missing. When they were released in 1997 it was one of my most-wanted new themes next to Divers. I hope someday I have the Rapid River Village.

Perhaps: as said before, it depends on the sets. The quality of the design.

Nice village Klaus-Dieter!

The medicin man actually belongs to the Adventure theme but since TLG regrettably didn't include one in all the Indian sets (which is really a shame since every Indian tribe needs a medicine man )

Wasn't the one with the "buffalo hat" supposed to be the medicine man?

But I have to say, the medicine man of the Adventurers looks better as a medicine man.

[Klaus-Dieter]

Thank you very much for your nice comments, Shoc and Richie!

Ooh, that's really nice.

It certainly captures the feel of the original sets (which it should, as it's made of them) and I think they were outstanding. The Achu minifig for Adventurers, although I love it, doesn't really go, but as TLC never released a shaman figure, it will suffice. Nice Indian kids too!

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Thanks, Shoc!

Like already mentioned I wouldn't have added the Adventure minifig to my Indian village if there was an official medicin man in the Indian them. But you're totally right that he doesn't fit that perfectly.

Since this is a village of an Indian tribe there are men and women. But since TLG regrettably didn't release some Indian kids, too, I added them - two aren't much but better than completely no future for the tribe!

I voted for "outstanding" and "perhaps".

Outstanding: after the release of the cowboy-themed Western sets in 1996, only the Indians were missing. When they were released in 1997 it was one of my most-wanted new themes next to Divers. I hope someday I have the Rapid River Village.

Perhaps: as said before, it depends on the sets. The quality of the design.

Nice village Klaus-Dieter!

Thanks, Richie!

I totally agree with you!

Imo the Indian sets were outstanding, too. I surely would buy some new sets, too. Although I'm - like you mentioned - aware that we might get some only cheap re-designs of the old sets (like partly in the new Pirates theme - although I must say that they look brilliant, but for somebody who already owns the old versions they are not that attractive). But I hope that TLG will be that intelligent and friendly not to only re-desgin the old sets and release them on worse quality. But of course you can never know.

Wasn't the one with the "buffalo hat" supposed to be the medicine man?

But I have to say, the medicine man of the Adventurers looks better as a medicine man.

I don't think that this minifig should have supposed to be a medicine man - he wears weappons on the pictures. And even if though there are much too many of them - a tribe needs only one medicine man (ok, some more might be possible since we even so several chiefs, but these are too many).

Klaus-Dieter

[Shoc]

But since TLG regrettably didn't release some Indian kids...

Ah, but they may have released Indian kids. You just wouldn't know because they would have had normal minifigure legs!

I added them - two aren't much but better than completely no future for the tribe!

No, good thinking.

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[Minifig Lecturer]

You have a very good collection there Klaus. Rare to see so many natives. Pity TLG didn't make more terrain baseplates though in this colour.

[Lordofdragonss]

Indian theme was really cool (minifigs with noses, WTF?), but new series including "new" horns, "new" bricks and cows... hmm sound briliant!

[Klaus-Dieter]

Thank you very much for your nice comments, Calvin and Lordofdragonss!

You have a very good collection there Klaus. Rare to see so many natives. Pity TLG didn't make more terrain baseplates though in this colour.

Thanks Calvin!

Indian theme was really cool (minifigs with noses, WTF?), but new series including "new" horns, "new" bricks and cows... hmm sound briliant!

Thanks Lordofdragonss!

On the one hand I have to disagree with you since there were a lot of new molds: the parts for the tepees, the canoes, the chief's "crown", the brown "hat" with horns, the two different Indian feathers, the snakes and the Indian hair pieces.

On the other hand I have to agree with you since there could have been some molds for new elements which TLG regrettably missed: e. g. buffalo.

If TLG releases a new Indian theme I hope that they'll offer us some sort of Indians living in the plains - which would give us the possibility to get some buffalo!

And btw: Welcome to EB, Lordofdragonss!

Klaus-Dieter