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Re: Is the tower piece new?
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 08:05:52 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Jeff Thompson writes:
> 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.
> > > >
> > > > 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
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> It wouldn't surprise me to see the big Fright Knight castle wall
> elements in a later set.
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> --
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> jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
What, I say, what is DACTA?
Aaron>maniac@vol.com
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