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Re: Is the tower piece new?
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 07:06:27 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> > Jeff Johnston wrote:
> > > The dark grey 3x6x6 half-octagon with window showed up in the Night Lord's
> > > Castle
> > > and the DACTA Castle set and that's it.
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> > > J
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> > O.K. Thanks for the information. That supports the theory that the dacta
> > castle set
> > was just a way to "use up" the molds for pieces they were discontinuing.
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> Nice theory.
> How'd you come up with it?
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> -Shiri
I don't buy it. Why would they want to "use up" a mold? Particularly
a "brand new" element that might be still protected by patent?
The Space Dacta set, for example, had special elements (octagonal
corridor elements, in particular) that wound up being used time and time
again in later Space sets. Obviously using them in the Dacta set didn't
"use up" the mold for the special corridor elements.
I think they wanted a Castle Dacta set, so they made one, drawing from
whatever parts were in production at the time. Thus the Fright Knight
elements.
It wouldn't surprise me to see the big Fright Knight castle wall
elements in a later set.
--
jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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| (...) I don't know about 'using up' a mold, unless he means that they had a bunch of extra said pieces made that weren't put into sets. I might believe it, though, seeing as how the Castle Dacta set also had things like the Dragon Masters tower (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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