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Chris
While I can appreciate your creative nature in adapting old JAR-JAR for use as
an ORC or Goblin type creature, that's just not how I picture my Orcs. I
would love to put more fantasy type creatures into my lego creations but I see
Orcs as being more ape-like and JAR-JAR isn't a good replacement in my mind.
Until lego decides to buy the license for the upcoming "Lord of the Rings"
movie (we can only hope, think of the Castle type sets they could create from
that???? WOW!!!!) JAR-JAR and his Gungan brothers will be as close as we will
get to anything resembling an Orc. Perhaps I could spray paint a bunch of
those Timmy (lego maniac) figures dark green, brown, or black and use them
instead of JAR-JAR for my Orcs????? Maybe I'll just hold off.
Andy
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In lugnet.castle, Andrew Krug writes:
> Chris
>
> While I can appreciate your creative nature in adapting old JAR-JAR for use as
> an ORC or Goblin type creature, that's just not how I picture my Orcs. I
> would love to put more fantasy type creatures into my lego creations but I see
> Orcs as being more ape-like and JAR-JAR isn't a good replacement in my mind.
> Until lego decides to buy the license for the upcoming "Lord of the Rings"
> movie (we can only hope, think of the Castle type sets they could create from
> that???? WOW!!!!) JAR-JAR and his Gungan brothers will be as close as we will
> get to anything resembling an Orc. Perhaps I could spray paint a bunch of
> those Timmy (lego maniac) figures dark green, brown, or black and use them
> instead of JAR-JAR for my Orcs????? Maybe I'll just hold off.
>
> Andy
Try replacing knight heads and warrior heads with the Scorpion guys from the
Hydronaut series! They have a sinister and inhuman appearance. Orcs in the
Tolkien world were Melkor's perversion of the captured Elves into his own
image in ancient Middle Earth history. The head change does the trick just
fine! Try it on some of your old Fright Knight swordsmen with the breastplate
print and see what you think!
:)
Aaron
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> Try replacing knight heads and warrior heads with the Scorpion guys from the
> Hydronaut series! They have a sinister and inhuman appearance. Orcs in the
> Tolkien world were Melkor's perversion of the captured Elves into his own
> image in ancient Middle Earth history. The head change does the trick just
> fine! Try it on some of your old Fright Knight swordsmen with the breastplate
> print and see what you think!
> :)
> Aaron
Aaron
Well thank you for the feedback. Now you have sparked my interest and I'm
going to have to search for some hydronaut sets and see how your suggestion
looks. On the Tolkien subject Lego could use a lot of it's existing pieces
and mini-figs to create Middle Earth/ Lord of the Rings sets. I guess us
Tolkien fans will have to keep our fingers crossed as the release of the movie
approaches. I think a Lord of the Rings theme would have much more Castle
playability then the Harry Potter idea I've heard thrown around here on
LUGNET. Thanks again
Andy
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I've tried this with Space figs, and they make darn fine aliens as well.
Glad to see someone else thought of this. :^)
~Mark
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Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
> From: "Aaron West" <maniac@vol.com>
>
> Try replacing knight heads and warrior heads with the Scorpion guys from the
> Hydronaut series! They have a sinister and inhuman appearance. Orcs in the
> Tolkien world were Melkor's perversion of the captured Elves into his own
> image in ancient Middle Earth history. The head change does the trick just
> fine! Try it on some of your old Fright Knight swordsmen with the breastplate
> print and see what you think!
> :)
> Aaron
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In lugnet.castle, Andrew Krug writes:
> Chris
>
> While I can appreciate your creative nature in adapting old JAR-JAR for use as
> an ORC or Goblin type creature, that's just not how I picture my Orcs. I
> would love to put more fantasy type creatures into my lego creations but I see
> Orcs as being more ape-like
Try putting the knight armor on a Jar-Jar. Even if you don't think it make a
good orc it sure does make a good castle oger,deamon, or whatever. I posted a
few of my ideas here about a week ago.
http://www.lugnet.com/castle/?n=5369
> and JAR-JAR isn't a good replacement in my mind.
> Until lego decides to buy the license for the upcoming "Lord of the Rings"
> movie (we can only hope, think of the Castle type sets they could create from
> that???? WOW!!!!) JAR-JAR and his Gungan brothers will be as close as we will
> get to anything resembling an Orc. Perhaps I could spray paint a bunch of
> those Timmy (lego maniac) figures dark green, brown, or black and use them
> instead of JAR-JAR for my Orcs????? Maybe I'll just hold off.
>
> Andy
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