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Re: Am I the only one who likes Jar-Jar?
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lugnet.castle
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Sat, 22 Jul 2000 01:37:55 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Andrew Krug writes:
> Chris
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> 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.
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> 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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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Am I the only one who likes Jar-Jar?
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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