#belville

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Belville

OC belongs to @murmurlilies Happy Birthday!

[tuzi-arts]

[daily-lego-sets]

LEGO Belville:

Fairy Island

Set: 5861

2003

Pieces: 105

[prettyheartentangle]

Lego Belville (1998-2007)

[appealingtonobody]

from the lego catalog

[murmurlilies]

PERIMETER BREACH

[dollcommercials]

Lego Belville Dolls Commercial (1994)

[annies-scrapbook]

finally retrieved my old lego collection from my mom's house! looking through it today, i found a belville set that had originally belonged to my sister, and i'm realizing how much i missed out by never getting into belville. when i was a kid i first came across the belville theme on the lego website where it was cordoned off (along with the scala theme) in a special "girls" section of the site - with the clear implication that all the other lego themes weren't for girls. tiny proto-feminist annie did not like that one bit, and refused on principle to engage with a theme that had such sexist marketing. (i was equally pissed when bionicle won an award for "best boy toy", but i figured that, since that was coming from an external party, and the lego company wasn't deliberately advertising bionicle as being only for boys, it was still politically acceptable for me to play with bionicles. besides, i had major gender envy for gali.)

anyway, belville is like a fairytale princess sort of theme, and it's adorable?? it's got like, giant flowers with lanterns strung between them, and snaills delivering the mail, and just all around cute cottagecore vibes. i'm pretty sure i would have loved it when i was a kid, if it hadn't been for the sexist marketing. i know it was a theme that was designed to primarily appeal to girls, but they could have just let it speak for itself as a whimsical fantasy theme and find its audience that way, instead of beating you over the head with Gender Roles. truly the 90s and 00s were a dark time.

[lindahall]

Ruth Belville – Scientist of the Day

Ruth Belville, the "Time Lady," died Dec. 7, 1943, at the age of 89.

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[mareliini]

You'll never guess what arrived in the post

Dismembered her instantly

[tuzi-arts]

I bought LEGO part 45024pb01c01 lol

[daily-lego-sets]

LEGO Belville:

Flora's Bubbling Bath

Set: 5837

2002

Pieces: 29

[batri-jopa]

Since my nieces are 7 and almost 6 I think I'm finally ready to let them play with my precious childhood lego sets

[simspaghetti]

Welcome to Ra's new bachelor pad! He's finally living on his own for the first time :)

This house is called The Belville & can be downloaded here by Fakehousesrealawesome

[murmurlilies]

meanwhile, in another universe...

[architectureofdoom]

Telecommunications building, Belville, Cape Town