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> BLACK WIZARD - Black legs & waist, black robes (Darth Maul), black arms,
> yellow hands (black works too), black Wizard hat, King Leo's head
I did something slightly similar for my potion/drug store in my market.
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/castle/images/marketd.jpg
I think the Darth Maul or even the new Luke torso from the Skiff set work great
as Wizard/Magicians. I even created a Priest/Minister for my church using
Maul's torso.
>
> Thanks to the new castle sets and Star Wars sets, we now have a bunch of
> 'old-man-looking' heads! I tried them with the oversized white beard piece,
> but I think it just looks a bit too farcical for my tastes....
I just love using the SW torso's for my medieval folk. There is actually a
good variety of torso's and now even more with the new SW sets (Mostly the two
figs from the Skiff Han & Luke).
From Memory these SW figs make great Castle town folk:
Darth Maul (Black Hood)
Desert Luke
Old Obi Wan (Gray Hair)
Young Obi Wan (Brown Hood)
Qui Gon Ginn (Long Man's Hair)
Padme (If there is a better hair piece out there let me know)
Skiff Luke
Skiff Han
Jar Jar Bink's (Just the torso and legs of course)
Gungan Soldier
Flash Speeder Driver (Brown Hands for leather gloves)
I think the Obi Wan and Qui Gon torso's are the same but they are still great.
Plus don't forget all the Black and Brown capes that come with those figs too.
I don't think LEGO could include this many peasants in this variety in the
Castle theme if they tried. IMHO the SW sets are hands down the best sets on
the market at the present time. Both in set quality and selection of parts.
It would be increadible if LEGO would use the same tactics in designing even
one other theme. I understand the need for some Juniorization but a little
more high quality stuff like the SW sets would be great.
Eric K.
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/
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In lugnet.castle, Eric Kingsley writes:
> I just love using the SW torso's for my medieval folk. There is actually a
> good variety of torso's and now even more with the new SW sets (Mostly the two
> figs from the Skiff Han & Luke).
Not only that, but they come in cheap sets! You can buy a skiff, the lightsaber
duel, the landspeeder, and the Gungan Swamp for all under $10, I think... Now
all they need to do is offer a padme fig (or at least the hair) in a cheap set!
> From Memory these SW figs make great Castle town folk:
>
> Darth Maul (Black Hood)
> Desert Luke
--I still have yet to find another upper torso that works with desert Luke's
printed legs... I figure it's got to be a white tunic/robe torso... the one
that's there works well, although you have to pretend not to notice the little
gizmos on his belt (although they could be anything, I suppose)
> Old Obi Wan (Gray Hair)
> Young Obi Wan (Brown Hood)
> Qui Gon Ginn (Long Man's Hair)
> Padme (If there is a better hair piece out there let me know)
> Skiff Luke
> Skiff Han
> Jar Jar Bink's (Just the torso and legs of course)
> Gungan Soldier
> Flash Speeder Driver (Brown Hands for leather gloves)
Is this the first time that brown hands have been offered? I can't think of
another set that had them....
> I don't think LEGO could include this many peasants in this variety in the
> Castle theme if they tried. IMHO the SW sets are hands down the best sets on
> the market at the present time. Both in set quality and selection of parts.
Unfortunately, yes! I WISH other themes had the same quality designs and peice
selection that Star Wars has... Although I suppose it's good in a way... It
keeps me from buying Town Jr!
> It would be increadible if LEGO would use the same tactics in designing even
> one other theme. I understand the need for some Juniorization but a little
> more high quality stuff like the SW sets would be great.
Is it any wonder why the SW stuff is fleeing the shelves and not some of the
other stuff they've been turning out? Hydronauts, Stingrays, Town Jr, the
Amazon Adventurers, Insectoids, and Wild West stuff just sits there on the
shelf at most toy stores I've seen... SW sets just fly off! (Although granted
it's mainly the classic SW stuff that seems to sell well... the Episode I stuff
I still see a lot more of than the classic stuff)
DaveE
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Cross Posted to lugnet.starwars
In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > I just love using the SW torso's for my medieval folk. There is actually a
> > good variety of torso's and now even more with the new SW sets (Mostly the • two
> > figs from the Skiff Han & Luke).
>
> Not only that, but they come in cheap sets! You can buy a skiff, the
> lightsaber duel, the landspeeder, and the Gungan Swamp for all under $10, I
> think... Now all they need to do is offer a padme fig (or at least the hair)
> in a cheap set!
>
> > From Memory these SW figs make great Castle town folk:
> >
> > Darth Maul (Black Hood)
> > Desert Luke
>
> --I still have yet to find another upper torso that works with desert Luke's
> printed legs... I figure it's got to be a white tunic/robe torso... the one
> that's there works well, although you have to pretend not to notice the little
> gizmos on his belt (although they could be anything, I suppose)
>
> > Old Obi Wan (Gray Hair)
> > Young Obi Wan (Brown Hood)
> > Qui Gon Ginn (Long Man's Hair)
> > Padme (If there is a better hair piece out there let me know)
> > Skiff Luke
> > Skiff Han
> > Jar Jar Bink's (Just the torso and legs of course)
> > Gungan Soldier
It just hit me that this torso might make a great green wizard! Any Thoughts?
> > Flash Speeder Driver (Brown Hands for leather gloves)
>
> Is this the first time that brown hands have been offered? I can't think of
> another set that had them....
I believe that this is the first time Brown Hands are available. Could Brown
heads be next?.... I think not :-(
>
> > I don't think LEGO could include this many peasants in this variety in the
> > Castle theme if they tried. IMHO the SW sets are hands down the best sets on
> > the market at the present time. Both in set quality and selection of parts.
>
> Unfortunately, yes! I WISH other themes had the same quality designs and peice
> selection that Star Wars has... Although I suppose it's good in a way... It
> keeps me from buying Town Jr!
>
> > It would be increadible if LEGO would use the same tactics in designing even
> > one other theme. I understand the need for some Juniorization but a little
> > more high quality stuff like the SW sets would be great.
>
> Is it any wonder why the SW stuff is fleeing the shelves and not some of the
> other stuff they've been turning out? Hydronauts, Stingrays, Town Jr, the
> Amazon Adventurers, Insectoids, and Wild West stuff just sits there on the
> shelf at most toy stores I've seen... SW sets just fly off! (Although granted
> it's mainly the classic SW stuff that seems to sell well... the Episode I
> stuff I still see a lot more of than the classic stuff)
And there's the problem. IMO TLC may just assume that these sets fly off the
shelves because they are Star Wars and not because they are great sets. I hope
I am wrong. I actually posted a message to this effect a little while ago in
lugnet.dear-lego:
http://www.lugnet.com/dear-lego/?n=1137
Another problem is what you said about the Classic sets selling better that the
EP1 sets. In general the Classic Star Wars fans tend to be older and tend to
have more money and this (I fear) may lead to a misperception that the sets
sell well because of the name not the set quality. I personally can't say that
I have every bought more duplicates of a set then the I have with the SW sets
and except for the first sets I bought all the Duplicates were for parts and
not for the models. I just hope TLC realizes that this is the case with many
of us.
Eric K.
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
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Eric Kingsley wrote:
> > > Gungan Soldier
>
> It just hit me that this torso might make a great green wizard! Any Thoughts?
Well, I have yet to get one, but the torso actually strikes me as a rather elaborate
and stylish leather armor. I wouldn't mind having lots of them, but I Don't. Need.
Any. More. Jar-Jars. Why couldn't we have gotten two Gungan warriors with
this set?
Waah! (OK, whine over.)
Anyway, like I said, it looks more like armor to me, so I plan to possibly
swap the
arms, put a human head and helmet on, and make it a Mercenary captain or
adventurer
or something.
By the way - is that shield purple or trans-purple? The box has it sort of
glowing
but I'm sure that's an 'added effect'. (They really missed the boat if they
didn't
make it transparent, as far as I'm concerned...)
J
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 02:53:22 GMT, Jeff Johnston <sakura@mediaone.net>
wrote:
> Eric Kingsley wrote:
> > > > Gungan Soldier
> >
> > It just hit me that this torso might make a great green wizard! Any Thoughts?
Hmm, probably want to change at least the hands, maybe the arms also
to make an "authentic" looking wizard (that's besides the head of
course) Ohh must not forget the hat! :^)
>
> Well, I have yet to get one, but the torso actually strikes me as a rather elaborate
> and stylish leather armor. I wouldn't mind having lots of them, but I Don't. Need.
> Any. More. Jar-Jars. Why couldn't we have gotten two Gungan warriors with
> this set?
> Waah! (OK, whine over.)
>
> Anyway, like I said, it looks more like armor to me, so I plan to possibly
> swap the
> arms, put a human head and helmet on, and make it a Mercenary captain or
> adventurer
> or something.
>
> By the way - is that shield purple or trans-purple? The box has it sort of
> glowing
> but I'm sure that's an 'added effect'. (They really missed the boat if they
> didn't
> make it transparent, as far as I'm concerned...)
>
> J
The shield is a solid purple. The added effect is most likely in my
opinion to be from shining a black light on it, I know it makes the
various translucent parts shine but have not tried any solid colors
really. My suspicion is that the translucent plastic is more brittle
and for the fairly stressed use is much a small shape they wanted a
more resilient "regular" style of plastic, but that's just MY guess.
As someone else in this thread mentioned I *REALLY* like the Star Wars
theme for the mini-figs, they have a wide selection of torso's that
can be used in MANY themes with just a bit of swapping of parts. I
have bought some extra sets just foe the minifigs, the other parts are
just "extra", I'll take them, use etc, but the main reason I bought
the extras is for the minifigs.
Mike
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> Now all they need to do is offer a padme fig (or at least the hair) in a
> cheap set!
What about 7131 Anakin's Podracer? It is $15.00, which isn't *too* espensive.
Jeff
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