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Re: Who is bad in Castle Lego ?
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Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:53:29 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Yaron Dori writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Micheal Hassall writes:
> > I was setting up a castle battle diorama last week when I thought, "Hey, in
> > Castle Lego, who is bad?". I mean in the newest theme, the bull guys were
> > clearly bad guys. But just one theme earlyer, the fright nights had no enemy
> > as far as i remember, but seemed to be evil. considering they were on their
> > own the could have been good or evil, which one were they?!?!?!?
>
> Just another word on the subject,you can also of course see it as the TLC
> repeating way. I mean take for example LEGO City, how many Airports,
> Hospitals, Fire Departments, Police... they made during the last 20 years.
> But of course a kid who played in 1984 with his Airport, when LEGO produced
> the 1994 Airport he was no longer a kid and there were other kids to enjoy
> it the same way he did (LEGO basiclly is made for kids and not collectors
> after all). As for castle just count the number of Catapults or Chariots you
> have.
>
> In the same way of looking at it, LEGO Castle have three major themes that's
> keep on recycling itself (I wouldn't say evolve because you'll see examples
> of exactly the opposite):
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> Castles/Knights/Kings...(can be refered also as Good Guys?):
> 1984 - Crusders
> 1984 - Black Falcons
> 1988 - Black Knights
> 1995 - Royal Knights
> 2000 - Knight Kingdom
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> The basic of their structure is more or less the same. Prehaps it's hard to
> look at the Black Knights as good because their Dark Black Castle #6085 but
> basiclly it's structure is almost the same as #6080 a part from the color of
> course. I guess the Yellow Castle can also fit in this catagory.
>
> Trees and Caves/Peasants/Thieves...(can be refered also as Neutral Guys?):
> 1984 - Few minifigs like #6010
> 1988 - Robin Hood and the forestmens
> 1992 - Wolfpack
> 1996 - Forest people
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> I don't think I need to explain that part
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> Dragons/Magics...(can be refered also as Bad Guys):
> 1993 - Dragon Masters
> 1997 - Fright Knights
> 2000 - Bull Knights
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> OK, to start comparing between Dragon Masters & Fright Knights it's pretty
> easy. Everyone can see the connection between them. Using Dragons & Bats,
> Witches and Wizards, unique wired looking structures, basiclly the same.
> I'll have to add the Bull Knights into that catagory because there is a sure
> connection with the previous, but they never had even a single structure
> (something I always wondered), only war machines...
>
> Love LEGO, Love Castles
> Yaron "Webrain" Dori
I've always thougth of the Lego castle series evolving in time: starting
just after 1066 with the military Norman fortresses of England, continuing
with the more inhabitable medieval knights castles (around 1300), and ending
so far with the splendid royal show-piece castles of the late medieval
(around 1500), where the introduction of black powder (Bull's cannons) made
the older fortifications obsolete.
With the castles being from different periods, the "good vs. bad" differs as
well; the kings Norman fortresses eventually grew into being the Earls
strongpoints in the rebellions against the king. So good in one time could
be bad in a later time.
Arne, Copenhagen
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