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Re: Is the tower piece new?
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:04:30 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
> Nephilim wrote:
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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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> 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 tops.
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> Some of the elements in the set, though, just make me go "Why? What
> the heck were they thinking?" Like that weird three-lobed yellow thing.
Personally, I think it's intended to be used in schools-- and probably for
younger grades (K-4, roughly...) And so Dacta wanted to use large pieces that
are tougher to break and harder to loose. And I'd note that this set is
comprised of mainly large bricks, not scores of small 1x1's and 2x1's etc. like
other castle sets... Hence, if they wanted to include towers, the easiest
pieces to use to make a tower were the 1/2 octagon pieces, rather than 2
separate corner walls. On that note, the 1/2 tower tops work really well
also... No clue why they used the 3 lobed piece though... There's also that 3
arched red 'fence'-ish piece too... no clue on that either...
DaveE
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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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