They actually evovled from my Castle theme. I just went and thought that Castles and medieval armies weren't big enough. So what time period had bigger armies and bigger fortified stuctures? The ancient era with fortified city-states, big armies with well uniformed troops.
So I just converted Castle to Ancient.
Actually my whole theme revolves around the Kahilawayans, who are refered to by the other younger civilizations as the "Ancients". Only the Atlanteans calls them by their real name as those two are the oldest civilizations with the Kahilawayans pre-dating Atlantis.
I formed each one of them whenever new LEGO-made themes would come out and if I found a use for a particular torso piece as a soldier.
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The problem with historical sets is that TLC, with good reason, doesn't want to offend anyone. Most of the ancient civilizations we would love to build a LEGO army out of were brutal, violent, and depraved, even the advanced ones like Greece and Rome. The vast majority of the population would accept Mongol LEGO sets, but there would always be dissenters. LEGO is a huge company, so it's best to avoid conflict with any part of the public, no matter how strange their argument may seem. Keep in mind that many of the parents who buy LEGO sets for their children do so because they consider more mainstream toys to be too violent. How would we make Mongol LEGO sets without pyramids of heads, or villagers to slaughter? It wouldn't work.
I think someone here did not notice the
VIKINGS theme that Lego is coming out with. Last I heard the Vikings weren't gentle....
But Lego avoided that with using mythic Norse beasts.
I think Lego could also avoid Mongols having to have mountains of skulls. As they avoided the Crusaders having to fight Arabs/Muslims.
Very impressive! Do you have all of those civilizations made at once, or do you take one civ apart to build another? Or something else?
