Which probably gives rise to another viewpoint!
LEGO is 'damned if they do and damned if they don't', in the sense that if they make hot-looking minifigs, that will be seen as 'exploiting' or 'stereotyping'! Someone will be saying that the only purpose of the 'girl' is a good-looking addition... I'm not saying they're right of course, but it must be hard for TLG not to put a foot wrong sometimes. Incidentally I recently noticed that there were no females in the Technic figures, either.
Hello, by the way, I'm Alex and this is my first post here!
I had a large-ish town layout 1984-94, not many sets after '91 though - mostly Technic - and a month or so back I decided to start collecting 12v train stuff again. Although I'm now 26, I don't see this as a reason not to get hold of those train sets I always wanted :)
I live in Hamilton, New Zealand, and at the moment I work at a museum doing audiovisual installation/exhibitions construction etc.
-Alex
