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Re: Dinosaurs/Castle/Ninja crossover ideas
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lugnet.build, lugnet.castle
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Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:51:07 GMT
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Look at the links from here, I think this is exactly what you are talking about:
http://news.lugnet.com/loc/au/?n=7035
Martin (In no way, shape, or form, responsible for the above)
In lugnet.build, Tobias Möller writes:
> I've always thought the dinosaur sets were crap, big dinosaurs and
> nothing more.
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> But now, I see that you can fit bricks on their backs, which gave me an idea.
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> You coud use the dinosaurs and castle bricks, to build a fantasy
> medieval world, where people use dinosaurs instead of horses, as their
> help in work.
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> My idea was to build some sort of merchant caravan.
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> First, lead with two Tyrannosaurus, fitted with spears, axes etc (for defense)
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> Then, a number of Triceratops, pulling lighter chariots with tents,
> cooking gear, etc (the equipment needed to sleep outside during a break)
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> One or two brontosaurus, pulling huge two-story six-wheeled wagons, with
> treasure chests, cages with dino babies (mini T-rex, and the dragon from
> the Harry Potter sets) for sale, a variety of weapons, in short, the
> goods the merchants sell.
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> End with a spinosaurus, and add some pteranodon (from the Adventurer
> sets) as scouts and -voila!
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> The main colour scheme should be brown, tan, black, perhaps some yellow.
> The minifigs, riding the dinosaurs, should have clothing similar to
> Obi-Wan (hoods and capes).
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> This is an idea I got, and I plan to realise it, at least build one or
> two of the things mentioned.
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> --Tobias
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| Yes, it resembles Dinotopia pretty much. (I have the book "Dinotopia", that is one of my sources of inspiration for this) The link martin gave me shows pretty much what I had in mind -though my minifigs would look more like the forestmen. --Tobias (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle)
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| I've always thought the dinosaur sets were crap, big dinosaurs and nothing more. But now, I see that you can fit bricks on their backs, which gave me an idea. You coud use the dinosaurs and castle bricks, to build a fantasy medieval world, where (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle)
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