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Best SW set for Castle purposes?
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Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:50:39 GMT
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A lot of people use the SW sets to augment their Castle stuff - and I, of
course, do the same. I was curious what people thought the *best* SW set was,
not as a SW set, but as a purchase for your Castle stuff. "Best" could be
defined however you want it to be - personally, I think of it as 'best price
for the most useful parts'.
With that in mind, I'll present my vote:
7104 Desert Skiff
This has recently supplanted the Lightsaber Duel in my mind as the best "SW
Castle" set. Useful parts include:
2 minifigs - Luke can be used to give variation to your Darth Maul monks, and
Han makes an even better townsman than QuiGon does! Plus, both heads can
easily be used in Castle settings (Darth Maul is a bit more difficult.) And
more hair is always good! And there's even a black spear.
Plates! 4x8 dk. grey, 2x4 in brown and tan, 2x10 in tan - if you can't think
of a way to use these you need some help. 8)
Half-octagon brown plates - these fit beautifully with the quarter-octagon
"tree trunk" pieces, so there's *got* to be some use there. I'll report back
when I've found some good ones.
1x8 dk grey tile
2 dk grey macaroni bricks
Throw in a couple of 1x2 grey bricks and few useful inverse slopes and you can
see why I think this set delivers some serious value. The only thing I
*really* miss about the Lightsaber Duel are the capes, but this set has a
higher percentage of useful pieces for the same price.
The MTT may change my mind when I finally get ahold of it, but I'm not
certain...I'm far more likely to buy this set "in bulk" than I am the MTT,
just because of the price difference.
J
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Message has 6 Replies:
 | | Re: Best SW set for Castle purposes?
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| (...) Thanks for posting this - I was not aware of the tree trunk piece. They finally ran out of the Dark Forest Fortress locally, and I can always use some peasant-types. Bruce (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: Best SW set for Castle purposes?
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| (...) Man, no kidding! I had always passed this set by thinking that it had too many specialized pieces, but on your recommendation I went and picked up two at K-Mart tonight. Great elements and 'figs! Chris (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: Best SW set for Castle purposes?
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| (...) I've purchased several "B-Wing at Rebel Base" sets (set number???) to augment my Castle parts. I don't have the specifics in front of me, but for about $30 you get somewhere around 330 pieces, including: (if my memory serves me correctly) + (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: Best SW set for Castle purposes?
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| (...) [mondo-snippage] Hmmm...compelling. But I think the jury's still "out" for my purposes, because I just got a 7184 MTT, and it's got a lot of very Castle-useable pieces, IMHO. Lots of dark grey and **brown** large plates (4x12s of the latter), (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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