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"Aaron Dalan" <adalan24@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GK0wuq.1IL@lugnet.com... (...) I have used some of them for that. I found a bunch of them (like about 80) at an outlet store (actually across two stores from an outlet chain) a couple of (...) (23 years ago, 24-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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What did you get? KEith (...) ___...___ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at (URL) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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(...) What, for the tree parts on big train layouts??? (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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(...) My secretary gave me her son's Lego collection last week. I probably could have sold it for $80-$100 (on ebay) but I had already mentally added them to my ranks, and you don't sell out your own! Plus, she gave those to me because I like Lego, (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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(...) A number of people have mentioned the triangular piece now - and I socked away at least 10 of the Speeder Bike packs (they are $5 at KB) so I have some available. The Light Sabre blade (unstarred wand, plain round stick, whatever) as a handle (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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Bruce, That sounds like a great idea, I'm going to have to give it a try. I'll tell you another cool shield you can make. First you have to buy the Star Wars Speeder bikes. With that set you get a 4 peg long "wand" that is grey but looks like the (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) castle creation. Bards anyone? John (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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"Keith Kirchoff" <legosarefun@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:F70rU6WbuRenU6N...ail.com... (...) You won't believe how many kite and round shield handles I've snapped after stomping around my Lego with my size 11 feet. I've got about as much (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I used a 2x2 round radar dish an half a white horn, to get a wild forest feel to my druid character. (URL) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yeah, those cars are pretty nice! I decided to make my castle open up and be as modular as possible after various problems associated with transporting my last (much smaller) castle to Brickfest. Unfortunately we didn't get any pics of the (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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Looks good Anthony :) Really gives you an idea of just what went into the making of the Dragons, of course the pages do make it seem easier than I know it had to be! Not giving a step by step leaves us to improve upon or just use it as a learning (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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After the minifigs, I got busy taking pictures of all of the neat elements that came in the Harry Potter sets. They can be found here: (URL) before, we do not have the Sorting Hat or Hogwarts Castle yet. Also, I haven't taken pictures of the parts (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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"Keith Kirchoff" <legosarefun@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:F225PBjxPGsKsJb...ail.com... (...) at (...) see (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I have posted signs in coffee shops and at the YMCA little success. I have found a couple of deals at yard (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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"Aaron Dalan" <adalan24@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GJzH27.DtI@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) a (...) Castles (...) missing (...) to (...) Actually I was going to offer $5 for the bucket (it had a $10 sticker on it) but instead simply (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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Same here. I can never resell legos. the become like children... KEith (...) ___...___ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at (URL) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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OH MY GOSH!!!!!!! You are so insanely lucky. I've never found any legos at yard sales near me. I've thought about posting signs around campus and see if anyone has old legos they want to get rid of. How long ago was it that you found the castle? (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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(...) The quality is perfect and the back-drops are a nice touch. (Which also enables us to discern the exact shades of each color!) Was I the only one surprised (surprised in a good way) that dumbledore’s hair is long! (URL) the ghost’s body is (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Fascinating. I like the odd playmobile or clone item, armor bit, or weapon because it seems to add spice to things. Sometimes it is fun to just make your own out of common household objects (I have a regiment of soliders who carry the tiny (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Bummer! Sounds like you got the sitch back under control with a strategic dab of super glue. In the future, you might try sliding the sword vertically down the minifig hand for a low tension coupling. Just a thought. Aaron (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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(...) $2??? What, didn't you try to haggle? Bet you could have got them down to $1.50 :) Seriously, when you find something like that, it must be tempting to turn it around into pure profit on ebay. I myself could never do something so mercenary. I (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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really bizarre I made a similar shield about 2 days ago, but used a LEGO screwdriver to provide the handgrip. The pint of the screwdriver is a little lower than the shield point, but it looks cool. the other ting I considered doing was using the (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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"Aaron Dalan" <adalan24@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GJz039.CqM@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) sound. (...) and (...) I was holding on to the blade as I tried to clip it into a minifig's hand. I didn't press that hard....that's why I was kinda (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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I think I've got a few of those "trashcan" round shields spare (about 8-10) from a HUGE collection I bought of some dude. I'm still trying to get rid of a lot of what I don't want (about 10 six gallon storage boxes worth) so I can make some money (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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[snip] (...) I came up with the same design. it's kinda dark but check out the cloaked fig in (URL) . The women's soccer team comes with two similar peices but they are round not triangular. I also think they are smaller. I bet you could use them to (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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"Aaron Dalan" <adalan24@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GJz039.CqM@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) at (...) sales (...) [ ... snipped ... ] It entirely possible that this could happen because it happened to me! Below is a link to some (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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I've take pictures of the Minifigs from the Harry Potter sets we have here, and they have been posted to brickshelf here: (URL) do not yet have the Hogwarts Castle, So we are missing those figs. Most are the same as in other sets though. Troy Troy's (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle) !!
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(...) I have had dreams that I found a Yellow castle or its minifig complement at a yard sale, but it never happened for true! Lucky, lucky. The yard sales in my area are not exactly heavily laden with Lego. (...) Hee hee! Quite a few of my yellow (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I haven't released a picture yet, but I've created a weapon/shield combo. Given to minifigs with my custom gladiator torso sticker, it looks really functional. What it is, is a spear, held about on third up from the blunt end, with the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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I was looking at a pile of 20 2x2 round plates with the archer's target design on them wondering what earthly good they are. Since the only official round shield looks like a trash can lid and is rare (rare = expensive), I decided to use the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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Well, it's certainly been a while, but I finally wrote up a dinky page for the making of Vildegraas, the green dragon. Simply go to the page with the four dragon links on it, and the link to the page is there. Honestly the page probably doesn't (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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If you could be more specific :) The set of vehicles representing a mobile still and assorted rum-running types which Roy has photographed individually are from Aaron Sneary (who can speak for himself, of course). I am responsible for the cars in (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build)
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That sucks, man. I've snapped a sword myself, but not recently. It is my number one pet peave in legos: broken weapons! KEith (...) ___...___ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at (URL) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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"Johannes Koehler" <chutspe@nexgo.de> wrote in message news:GJx3M6.Cvr@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) I don't think that's a bad idea actually. By chance I found a whole load of really old Castle accessories in a yard sale lot I bought. Many old armour (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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"Magnus Lauglo" <thunder_road@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GJx3IF.CJs@lugnet.com... (...) castle (...) Nice idea to have everything swing open. BTW, whoever built those old style cars deserves a cigar....very good stuff!!! Stoof (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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Hello! (...) That might be correct. BTW: Where do you find the part number of the swords? Is this official? The number isn't printed on the part. Bye Jojo (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi all, Thanks to a fellow Wamaluger Roy, I finally have some great pics of my castle on the net. They can be found at (URL) on the icon for Wamalug sep01, the castle pics are at the bottom. I had been working on this for the last month or so, and (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle)
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(...) still have the same part numbers. Jeff (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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(...) LEGO: You want an army of 10 light grey Gryffndor Knights? That will be $1,000.00, please. ME: AAAAAAAGHHHHH!!!!! (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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Hello! (...) Yes, there were light gray swords etc. but *this* light gray sword in the Harry Potter set will be different: I bet it is made out of the flabby material the Pirates' sabres are made of. And the light gray axes in 375, 383 and 677 are (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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In lugnet.harrypotter, Brian Kasprzyk writes: is the first time they have introduced the armor and the classic sword (...) Armor, yes, sword, no. The Yellow Castle-era sets had light gray swords, helmets, and axes. Jeff (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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