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Hey all, it seems lugnet.castle has been kinda quiet lately, and since I don't have anything new to post, I thought it might be fun to do a little survey kinda thing. Just reply to this message and fill in the answers with your own. What is your (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Sounds like fun... (...) John Henderson, aka Hendo, Galactic Mediator, Pharaoh of ShipConia, Uniter of the Two Systems, and All Around Cool Guy (...) 30 (...) This is a deep question, and I don't think I have the time or space to answer it (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Anything to kill the time ;) (...) Anthony "The Lego Bandito" Sava (...) 24 in the middle of July (...) I'm a bum living off my parents since last May trying to find employment. My fiancee' is going to college two hours away. On a good note, I (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) DaveE (...) 26 (...) Computer programming, and generally being a nerd. (...) Tough call. Possibilities: - 6080 King's Castle - 6067 Guarded Inn - 6062 Battering Ram - 6086 Black Knight's Castle (...) Favorite *castle* MOC I assume :) I guess (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Bruce (...) 34 (...) I teach chemistry. (...) I suppose if anything you'd have to go with the story teller from my site: (URL) you look around my site you'll reallize that he's also a chemistry professor: (URL)What is the name of your fantasy (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) =Nick "Boris" Oranzi (...) =A month from 18 (i'm still a little kid :( ) (...) =I'm mere days from graduation, good riddance high school, and i'm heading off to Bucknell in august to study chemistry and hope to become a nuclear chemist. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Josh Wedin (...) 29 years, 1 month, 14 days, 4 hours, 17 minutes, and 25 seconds right...now! (...) Hmmm...real life...the main thing I do is foster care. I am a treatment foster parent, which means that my wife and I have special training to (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Ok now we're talkin! It has been quite dead around here lately, I would say schools out and people are building, that's my excuse anyways. Let's get to it! (...) Erick Jensen EazyE or just e. Sometime I go by Evil Genius, cuz I can be a rotten (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Hello! (...) Johannes 'Jojo' Koehler (...) I'm nearer to my 50th birthday than to the day of my birth. But not much. (...) Don't have a real life. (...) Not very original: (URL)What is the name of your fantasy world/country? 'My Life' (...) 6067 (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Ok ... (...) Pawel Nazarewicz (...) 23 (...) Grad student at UGA. (...) It used to be Verneer [1], but there is going to be a change very soon. I will upload pictures when I take them. (...) Don't really have one. (...) I'm a big fan of the Black (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) This is great! I don't know how I missed it ... this must have been some project. What do you have in store next? -- Pawel (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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OK, everything about ... me!!! (...) Yaron "Webrain" Dori (also knowen as the Black Sword) (...) I'm 26 (...) Been searching for that answer too mach time, so if everyone will found out please tell me. But inspite of that, for now I'm studying my (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Why Not!!! :) (...) Benjamin Medinets (...) 28 going on 29. (...) Right now I'm single, working part-time as a soldier in the US Army National Guard (in Buffalo) and full time working as a security guard working at various sites (in St. (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hey all, Just a suggestion--maybe it would be interesting if we gave feedback to eachother on our own favorites out of people's MOCs. It might be interesting. Just for my thoughts on Anthony's work, while the Dragons are what stand out the (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hmm. Is there any way the AT-AT counts as a castle? It's big, gray, and hard to break into. :) My favorite part of Dave's village is the real emphasis on the agricultural basis of the community, like the crop and sheep here: (URL) the chicken (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) those really cool stone lions and the unique roof design. Yen's house is a nice simple construction that works well: (URL) like to see some better pictures of that. I also like the "painting" on the side of the Golden Dragon Inn: (URL) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'd go with Josh's windmill: (URL) clever to use the Ewok glider wings. Bruce (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yeah, this is a great fortress, very imposing: (URL) I like the cute little microscale version sitting next to it. Bruce (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'd go with Johannes' cathedral: (URL) decision to to a small slice of the cathedral in great detail was a really good one. I really love the long vertical lines of this. In the great cathedrals of Europe one thing that really strikes you is (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Looking forward to it. My favorite part of your castle is your modular wall design: (URL) you could potentially rearrange all kinds of ways. BTW, your sister's cats are awesome: (URL) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) (URL) I'd go with the jousting tournament: (URL) especially like the little pavilions for the competing knights, each with their own color scheme. Bruce (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Bruce (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) hey, thanks! The whole thing actually came together pretty easily compared to most of my mocs. i dont remember spending more than a day or two building it. i intend to bring it to brickfest, which means no more large castle projects til after (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Leah Cardaci (...) 22 (...) I’m an undergrad at IUPUI. (...) Yes, Arlow. (URL)What is the name of your fantasy world/country? Skyllar (...) I’ll have to go with the Blacksmith’s shop as well. It’s a quality set with excellent details. (...) My (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Joey Finnell (...) 19 (...) Well I play guitar, I write songs.. I still live at home with my parents :-\. I have a really cool Girlfriend, I work off and on at my dads Computer business. So yea not that great, but hey its a living. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Alan Findlay (...) 41. So far I'm the oldest in this thread!! I don't feel that old, and my wife and daughter will tell you that sometimes I certainly don't act that old! (...) Missionary, in full-time administrative service. Other hobbies (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Richard (...) 22 going on 47 (...) Real life…isn’t that two questions? Real and life… Or is it a redundancy!?! Like Isn’t life a reality… Or that the reality is life… ANYWAYZZZZ I'm an Undergrad at York University (...) Yes, 'The Dark lord' (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Nathan Schroeder (I'm LUGNET's biggest lurker. I've started lurking in August of 2001, and I might have 10 post to this day. But I get on and check the boards almost everyday). (...) 26 years (...) Cooking and cleaning, job searching. Spent (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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This was a good idea Lenny. (...) Stephen Wroble (...) 50 - older even than Alan Findlay, but playing with LEGO keeps me young. (...) I'm a college professor, I teach computer graphics and multimedia production. That's why there's so much Flash (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, I'd have to first off apologize for the lack of posting lately...this weekend equated to a major onset of task saturation, which is normal considering the time of the year. (...) M.A Hein (...) 18 (not sure If I'm the youngest at (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yup. (...) What? Castles had walls in real life? Where did you get this crazy idea? I thought they all consisted of pre-shaped ground, trap-doors, and ghosts. (...) Agreed. I think Lego® inspires a lot of creativity building-wise, but the (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Any true scholar can testify that at one time, castles did in fact have walls. They were 5 studs wide and 5 bricks high and had a window cut in them. They were either black or grey and some of them had rocks painted on them. Before that, they (...) (21 years ago, 25-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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There is even evidence that some black walls had dragon's painted on them and some possibly had pillars painted on them as well. There is some controversy over this however. The early yellow walls were actually early grey walls that were left out in (...) (21 years ago, 25-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Thanks, Bruce! I could rebuild in a moat, in fact I might do that. I appreciate your comments about my mill. Josh (...) (21 years ago, 25-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Micah D. Berger (...) 16 (...) I'm not sure if thats what the question means but..... Oh well school, work, drama and lurking about lugnet. (...) I haven't decided which minifig would work the best but when I decide (and get my scanner figured (...) (21 years ago, 25-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Micah, (...) Now that is a good idea! Since Lego is currently making designer sets, this is actually a possibility. I would be really excited about something like this! Josh (21 years ago, 26-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) details like stairs up to the upper tower and the little guardhouse inside the gate. I do really like your keep, too: (URL) favorite detail is how the different modules swing open for interior access. Bruce (21 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) That guy does amazing work, but I'd never seen this one before. Very cool. Looks like something out of Moria. Bruce (21 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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In lugnet.castle, Nathan Schroeder writes: \ (...) Do you have pictures on line? I'd like to see this. Bruce (21 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yup, my thoughts exactly! (A good rendition of Tolkens work IMO) (...) That’s great! (I was hoping that nobody came across his new creations.) Precisely why I choose this image!!! (...) And so do you…I'm a fan of both your works! :-) (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks Bruce. Your comments are very nice. Ben (21 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Hello all, (...) Andrew P. Saada (...) 20 (...) What Hendo said. And with that said, I'm in the transition between being a sophomore and junior in undergrad, currently at Monmouth U. I took a leave of abscence from Wash U in St. Louis this semester (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Details like stairs and interior access have been among the challenges that I've tried to meet when building something. I like the sense that something is "realistic", in as much as you can move characters around as if they were walking themselves. (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Kai Gerkens aka gerkenz (...) 23....no sorry....32 ;) - and since august 2001 again lego building :) and "MOC"-ing since 02/2003...kind of new. (...) kind of programming php, mysql, c++ and so on... (...) hmm...not jet - so far the blue shield (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Blackburrow is a place in the Everquest computer game. Just outside Queynos I seem to remember. Its been a while since I was there. The snake pit is on lvl 2 if anyone really cares :) (URL) James Stacey ------ www.minifig.co.uk Lugnet Member #925 (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Micheal Hassall (...) 14 and could be the youngest poster in lugnet (...) Im just starting my G.C.S.E's and trying to make some money to buy lego, miniture wargames, computer games and more lego (...) Nope! (...) Falcon Island: the birth place (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Hello! (...) Very good choice! Though you poor boy didn't even live, when the Black Falcons ruled the Legoland Burgenland. :-) (...) Yeah! Bring the Dominion of the Black Falcons back to life! Bye, Jojo (URL) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Jon Furman (...) I'm 6 months from the big Three - Oh Baby! (...) =I work full time at my local Community Church as an adolescent counselor, and program director. I'm married to my lovely wife of 7 years, Janelle and our lone progeny is a 3 (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Well I've finally gotten around to doing this. Here are my answers What is your name? =Steve Bishop How old are you? =I'm 24 What does real life mean for you? =Well this question sounds a little too philosophical to me... but I am as of two weeks (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi all, (...) Twan Theeuwen. (...) I counted thirtythree autumns and then another one. (...) That's what friendly people on Internet advise me to get. Meanwhile I work as a software engineer. (...) Nope. (...) Don't have one. (...) 6097, Batlords (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Lego is stopping the legend line?! Was this why I was offline? (...) Without putting anything that I would have to cross post to .debate I'll say that for me Jesus is the answer. In your search have you tried a Bible? God Bless You, Nathan (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Wha'...when did this happen? Are you sure the Legends line is over... Could you show me the source of this info??? --==Richard==-- (21 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Whoa, everybody calm down. Yaron was just commenting on what a couple of us said about wishing that Lego would stop the Legends and make new castle sets. Don't worry, the Legends line is not about to end. (as far as I know, anyway) :) Josh (21 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle)
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