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Re: New Castle Visor? (Heads Up Castle-Heads!)
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Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:15:08 GMT
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Here is an interesting point. It appears that the helmet has the 3 holes
for the plumes like the modren visor. yet there are no plumes in it[1].
Why take the time to make a custom piece, just for a lego movie, and add
features that you are not going to use? just a thought
John
[1] the one on the top looks a little big but. . . well I'm hoping here.
In lugnet.castle, James Stacey writes:
> It's certainly very well made if its not Lego
> Could it be a prototype for a never released set ??
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> the batlord helmets (sans wings) looked well done too, OK they could have
> been sprayed, but didn't look it
> It's odd if the visor was scratch built as the same care and attention
> wasn't given to the torso stickers, some of which are quite rough
> --
> James Stacey
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> www.minifig.co.uk
> #925
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> "Pawel Nazarewicz" <verneer@utk.edu> wrote in message
> news:GMuMu1.9B7@lugnet.com...
> > In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
> > > I would lay very strong odds on it being a one-off custom that Lego • didn't
> > > even do. This post:
> > > http://news.lugnet.com/castle/?n=10706
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> > > has some info on how the movie happened, and there's a strong implication
> > > that the figs existed independant of LEGO before the movie.
> >
> > I think what they are talking about is this:
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> > http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood/9060/holy.html
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> > ... but as we see here, this visor is just a regular lego visor. Maybe • when
> > lego decided to make the short film, they went the extra step.
> >
> > Maybe.
> >
> > -- Pawel
> >
> > http://web.utk.edu/~pnazarew/new/
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| (...) I thought the exact same thing. Plus, one has to consider that this is VERY unlike the DIY sculpey helmets we have seen from others -- this thing has to snap onto an existing helmet form and stay in place using two teeny protrusions to do the (...) (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| It's certainly very well made if its not Lego Could it be a prototype for a never released set ?? the batlord helmets (sans wings) looked well done too, OK they could have been sprayed, but didn't look it It's odd if the visor was scratch built as (...) (23 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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