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Re: knight's kingdom
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.harrypotter
Date: 
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:27:49 GMT
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Being cynical could the fact they release the sets with trolls and goblins
in January have something to do with LotR being released at the end of
December ??

The ewoks are a bit of a disappointment, a brown minifig head with the old
style peasant hood would have looked better.

And how many catapults do we really need ??? If you work out the percentage
of LEGO sets that are catapults its gonna be quite disproportionately high.
We need more Catapults like we need more falling Axes :)

There was a conversation about it elsewhere, but didn't the Star Wars deal
prevent LEGO releasing _flying_ spaceships, hence the LOM explorer ship
crashing into the ground, and the Ogel ship being on a launchpad.

not sure about the goblins from the HP sets yet, I'll need to see a more
detailed piccy before deciding if they are any good, the troll is a bit of a
dissapointment though. The BURPMAN from RR sets is a better troll.

--
James Stacey
---------
www.minifig.co.uk
#925

"James Howse" <jehowse@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:GM1wpt.5D0@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.castle, Keith Kirchoff writes:
Yeah, I would much rather have a LotR theme, but there are descent enough
castle elements in HP.  speaking of which, I'm trying to build a Hagrid • army
if anyone wants to help!

Have you seen the Goblins in 4714?

So what do people think of the new 2002 sets?  Personally, I think the • new
Alpha Team sets look terrible.  Why in the world did they put them
underwater?  Last I checked, Aquazone wasn't the biggest hit.

Umm, I think you'll find that it was a very good seller. Almost all of the
sets, (and this goes double for the orignal Aquanauts and the larger sets)
rate 65 or more on the LugnetDB. In my experience, I never saw a leftover
set from that seires sitting on the shelves, unlike other sets from those
years (*cough* Wild West *cough*)

Any other opinions?

I wonder why they delayed three of the HP sets for next year, I mean, • three
sets? why bother?. AlphTeam is underwater because it's futuristicly
sciencefictiony without being Spacey. Even though theres no agreement with
Lucasarts about producing (or not producing) spacecraft while holding the • SW
licence, they won't undercut their own sales by producing a competing • space
theme. However they will go close (Life on Mars, Alpha Team) and try to
capture more sales by catering to those don't like SW.

James (who wants equality of distrubution, same sets everywhere at the • same
time)

P.S. Keith, You really ought sort out the problem you're having with your
messages not threading properly. Send an Email to Suz, it should be easy
enough to fix up.



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----- Original Message ----- From: "James Stacey" <james@minifig.co.uk> To: <lugnet.castle@lugnet.com>; <lugnet.harrypotter@lugnet.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 4:27 AM Subject: Re: knight's kingdom (...) goblins (...) old (...) Oh yeah! I (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.harrypotter)
  Re: knight's kingdom
 
(...) I always figured that one as Mr. Hanky on steroids. JSA -- Green Bay Lacrosse-- Play hard; play often. (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.harrypotter)
  Re: knight's kingdom
 
(...) You would have thought they could at least devise one that works with rubber bands instead of py (human) hand, and seems a little more realistic. I'm sure kids would like them more. Does anyone else remember that old game "Castles and (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.harrypotter)

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(...) Have you seen the Goblins in 4714? (...) Umm, I think you'll find that it was a very good seller. Almost all of the sets, (and this goes double for the orignal Aquanauts and the larger sets) rate 65 or more on the LugnetDB. In my experience, I (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.harrypotter)

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