 | | Re: The Black Sword
|
| I've got one. My evil villian carries it. I've also got two pitchforks and the black hawk which I believe are also fairly rare. This makes me wonder: what are considered to be the rarest castle pieces? Steve (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: The Black Sword
|
| (...) Hi Steve As far as I see it, since ~1990 (more or less), our LEGOMania got out of hands and even TLC only produced a singal LEGO piece of some sort, we bought at least a dozen. But before that I think that beside "The Black Sword", in my (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: The Black Sword
|
| As far as I see it, since ~1990 (more or less), our LEGOMania got out of (...) Well I'm still missing that one... (...) And missing this one too... (...) I do have this one though, and I've also got the black bird, and the blue dress piece from the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: The Black Sword
|
| Hello! (...) Definitely rare and unique are the knights' torsos and shields in #383: (URL) the visors of this time periode are quite rare because many of them have probably become victims of the vacuum cleaner, or the kids have bitten in their plume (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: The Black Sword
|
| The black halberds are really cool. I have a hard time finding them on Bricklink, but have been able to buy several of the roborider sets off of ebay in order to get them. Josh (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: The Black Sword
|
| (...) Easily the rarest Castle part of ALL. _The Red Ghost_ I don’t know the actual background to this minifig, but I do know that I want one badly! Oh, and I'd like to offer a big WhOpS… I don’t actually have ‘32’ black swords… Upon inspection, I (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: The Black Sword
|
| (...) Oh my, just in time, too!! ;) Alan (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: The Black Sword
|
| You know...I forgot about the red ghost. I have 35 of them, just kidding. :) I don't have any. Does anyone know anything about it? I have seen a picture but can't seem to find out what set it came with. No one on Bricklink has one and Peeron doesn't (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: The Black Sword
|
| (...) The Red Ghost is realy one of the rarest...and best of it - I've got one !!! I've got that Ghost in a bunch of 8kg Lego at Ebay about 1 year ago :) See the picture at: (URL) thnx for starting this discussion about a rare peace of lego :) -- (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| Hello! (...) The Red Ghost has never been an 'official' LEGO element. Rumours say they were produced just for testing purpose, maybe for adjusting the molds of the actual gloom-in-the-dark ghosts. One factory that produces test molds for LEGO is or (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| Hi, I've made a page to collect the pictures of the red ghost's at: (URL) else have seen this amazing minifig in his lego-boxes? Kai --- (URL) ( german page ) *** JOIN the Medieval Lego Webring at: (URL) *** --- -- (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| ~WoW…fascinating! ¯¯¯...¯¯¯ Thanks for the background info. (your post should be highlighted into the “details-section.” Because you’re the 1st person to have provided insight into this fantastically rear element!) (...) (URL) this indeed proves to (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.market.appraisal)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| (...) I think the most rare LEGO pieces are the 'swirl' bricks. Long ago, with the old injection machines, when changing from one color to another, they'd get a few swirled color pieces. With each one being unique, I'd bet the swirled bricks would (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| They are the most rare in the sense that each is unique, but in general terms, I bet there are more flame-colored bricks than red ghosts. Also, Flame-Colored bricks, as they are officially called, are still being found in new sets today! You know (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| Nice red paint... -Rob (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| (...) Nah, it looks like the real thing to me. If you look carefully at the bottoms, there is a slight difference between the two red ghosts. This seems to prove that they are prototype pieces. Jojo, you are one lucky guy (or maybe just smart enough (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| (...) (URL) so the timing wasn’t great I'll admit. Being April Fools an’ all… But if you were to do a background search on this subject you’ll see it has been around for a long time…seriously…check into it! Um, there’s this Japanese site of every (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| (...) Considering it was a while since they produced the ghosts it's not impossible there are som mottled (swirled) red/glow in the dark ghosts out there... Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| Hello! (...) Hehehe! Sometimes the best April Fools are those that ain't hoaxes but true, but everybody takes them for April Fools... (...) Indeed. My Red Ghosts are really existing and authentic. I could show you them if you come to a German LEGO (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| (...) yup, and my faked ghost made this discussion more April Fool than it might be :) But what about the BLUE Ghost ?...no, no...sorry I could'n resist. ;) (...) Just let me know where and when the ghost's are trying to meet other horrible (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| Hi Lenny, (...) so what about swirl bricks that, even in normal appearance, are available in rare sets only...? I got one with my 1237 Asimo Robot: (URL) took LEGO about 3 months to send me a replacement, but the managed to find one even though this (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| Hey, i don't know if this is real, but I have a bunch of the old Cellulose Acetate bricks from the 50s-60s, and some of them are white with little swirls and bits of red in them. Is it possible that they could be swirls? If they are, are they worth (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
| | | | | Re: The Red Ghost
|
| They sound like the swirl bricks people have talked about. I don't know what they would be worth, but they sound kinda cool! Josh (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
| |
