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Re: My modular castle creations
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Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:55:49 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> Rocco J Carello wrote:
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> > In lugnet.castle, Tanya K. Burkhart writes:
> > > In lugnet.castle, Jon Furman writes:
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> > > > (instead of the INSTANLY FORGETTABLE "aragog in the
> > > > dark forest" set)
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> > > I remembered Aragog. I spent two weeks hoping he had enough sense not to
> > > buy that *thing* for me. He did. :)
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> > Funny... Aragog is one I wanted because I want more of the green foliage
> > pieces and 16x16 baseplates. Unfortunately, most of the other parts, like
> > that spider, are completely useless to me, so i'ts not worth $20.
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> At $15 with K-Mart BOGO I think it's reasonably worthwhile. Like you
> say, it's got good terrain bricks, and two decent minifigs (ok, so you
> need to loose the Harry Potter head, but otherwise the minifigs are
> good). The spider has some good parts (including 2 dark grey 2x2 inverse
> corner slopes). The spider is even a decent creation.
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> I'd say this set has no more useless parts than many other sets. And
> it's a lot more likely you can find something to do with the
> "tail/tentacle/leg" pieces than the dozens of extra Adventurer car
> bodies and hundreds of extra wheels I have.
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> I love the printed tiles... And you get an extra of the 1x1 one too!
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> Frank
I have to agree with Frank,
I think this set has great value in the parts for realistic landscaping.
The problem with most MOC Castle creations is that the focus is too heavy on
military, castle walls using very simple designs and pre-fab bricks. If you
wish to make a castle look realistic, you need to round it out with foliage
and landscape so it doesn't look so drab and toy-ish (I know, they are).
Besides, giant spiders aside (way cool) if you build space stuff too, those
spider bodies have a lot of good color and parts for things of MOC Space
design. I am in Castle for the fantasy aspects, so Space is up my alley to
in that vein.
If you set value at part count, then Dueling Club is an even bigger stinker
without any parts to clearly make it a value (or really any parts at all,
'tis light!).
Every Castle needs a little Dark Forest around it!!
-Aaron-
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| [aragog] (...) Yeah, Duelling Club is horrible for the price. I guess the spring loaded wizard ejector is the cause of that. The spider is sorta useless to me, but the pic on the back of the box wth all of the spider leg parts put into a tree looks (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) At $15 with K-Mart BOGO I think it's reasonably worthwhile. Like you say, it's got good terrain bricks, and two decent minifigs (ok, so you need to loose the Harry Potter head, but otherwise the minifigs are good). The spider has some good (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.castle)
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