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(...) I have to agree with that. When I was young, Robin Hood and his crew always had this gigantic "hidden" fortress that was generally made to look like a short stump of an Ewok tree (which was enough that noone could ever find it), while the evil (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thank you. I had originally planned to make this a sailing ship for the 'Bulls' theme, but as time went on I realized the colors didn't fit too well with the Bulls. I'm pleased with how it turned out, but I'm still unsure of which lego castle (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Yet that's exactly the mix I preferred when I was 10. You have to let kids apply their own logic here, and they are not yet interested in "realism". However I don't think you could go wrong by making the castle look stronger. (21 years ago, 20-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hi Joshua, thanks for sharing your personal views on the theme. There is a lot to complain about with the theme. However, there was a chrome set in the theme with a dragon ... Dragon Rider (URL) not flashy, but definitely affordable. I thought (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) On a large enough scale it should be possible to make all-plate wings that can actually fold up, but the structure required to do so probably wouldn't be able to support the weight. Alternatively, you could go the non-articulated route, and (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Hey guys, I just wanted to rant about knights kingdom. First of all,there are no dragons or ghosts anymore. Also,the new helmet looks like the minifig is wearing a plate on their head! The catapult piece also sucks. I think lego should have stuck (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Black Falcon won June 2003's poll to be this month's Minifig Hall of Fame inductee. Black Falcon always did good in the previous polls, but with Blacktron 1 and others out of the way, no one could stop him from winning. Only Futuron and King Kahuna (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town, lugnet.western, lugnet.underground, FTX) !
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(...) Hey Steve, It is great,although it might look better if it wasn't all grey. Later, Joshua (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Reed, Your creation is fantastic! I like the use of minifig arms as claws. Very Nice! Ben (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Good spotting on the wings. I've been trying to develop a larger version of dragon wings using plates and such, but I haven't had any success yet. I'd love to try an eastern dragon as well, but I can never get the head just right.. Ah well. (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Aye, black is a pain to photograph. I had to delete half the pictures I took, due to blurring and suchlike. Thanks for the kind words! Reed Anderson (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Thankee much, good sir. Thou art ever too kind. :) Reed Anderson (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava wrote: . (...) Hehe... I wish. Endless bricks would make building so much easier.. (I'm currently under 50,000 part-wise...) (...) Thanks so much for the compliments! The folder is currently moderated, with a total of (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Heh. When I looked at the first image, I was trying to figure out what you'd used for wing membranes, and I suddenly had the idea that you might be able to pinch minifig capes between the plates on the fingers. Then I looked a little closer at (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Incredible. It's simply magnificent. I only wish that black creations were easier to photograph so that we could get a better understanding of how you created it. ;) -Ben Harris (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) 8O All I have to say is this: You rock man. Cheers! Dean (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Greetings Ben! (...) Glad to have you -- like everybody's said, it does us good to have more and more variety in the contributions we see! (...) That's just plain cryptic. I can picture it coming out of the mist... : ) Very nice use of the grey Time (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Reed... Man... do you work for LEGO or something? This is FANTASTIC. This has got to be the best dragon/drake at this scale I have ever seen. I must know how you made it! At this moment in time, your gallery hasn't been moderated, so I don't (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Nine he gave to Mortal Men, proud and great, and so ensnared them. Long ago they fell under the dominion of the One, and they became Ringwraiths, shadows under his great Shadow, his most terrible servants. (URL) With 29 points of articulation*, this (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX) !!
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(...) Thanks. :) I really like your stuff. There was a thread a little while back about why pirate doesn't get built as (...) Thank you! Your compliments have actually made my day. I'm glad I could live up to said quality. I really like when people (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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Hello Ben, as a fellow lurker I say welcome! I really like your stuff. There was a thread a little while back about why pirate doesn't get built as often, I think everyone said it was that pirate needed a higher quality than the other themes. I say (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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Ok, as soon as I posted my wild boar I had a flash of inspiration. So I uploaded new pictures that over wrote the old pictures (not by accident ;). However, for those of you who saw the old design, or for those of you who are curious as to the old (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Hi Jason, (...) Thanks a lot. (...) That's the idea, glad you can recognize as such. (...) I respectfully disagree :-) I've been tinkering around with it, adding crosses, more angels or simply circles and rectangles only to decide that it's a (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Ok, so they're not all winners. But I figured I'd share my quasi-failure with you all, at least to prove I'm not some LEGO demi-god (not that anyone thinks that, nor do I actually believe anyone thinks that). With the success, or at least slight (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hi Yaron, "the black sword" wrote (...) Thanks indeed. (...) If you like them, please feel free to use these. Even better, improve on them ;-) (...) That's true, I don't have the white for it. And even though that would be a nice color, I certainly (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Johannes, "Johannes 'Jojo' Koehler" wrote (...) Well, thank you. (...) That was the idea. In fact I have been visiting roman churches in the neighbourhood from which I borrowed details for this MOC, but I'm glad it's recognizable as roman style. (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi David, (...) Thank you. I think using plates for the roofs gives me an increased versatility. But against a few drawbacks, like difficulty making a pointy top. Nevertheless I'm looking forward to owning more of these new 2x3 and 2x4 wings for (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) What about this accessory kit? (URL) available for $5 from S@H. Bruce (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Actually, I've been really frustrated with black. It's nearly impossible to photograph just like you said. Still, it looks very good in person and so I'll probably continue to use it in creations. (...) Thank you. Actually, my reasoning for (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) I think it would be cool to see some custome Harry Potter type Castles. Or at least some castles that utilize a lot of the newer Harry Potter pieces. I miss my days of building castles and such. Now I seem to put all effort towards trains and (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Hi! always great to add someone to the community, especially the .pirate community! (...) this is a nice small medieval style ship, with high fore and stern castles to fight from. also, the color scheme is nice, the only problem with black is (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(Please (...) Actually, I know that from my perspective, I'd rather have the re-release of something small and cheap like [LEGOSet 1463] or possibly [LEGOSet 6009]. I say this for primarily selfish reasons seeing as how I am out right now (and ever (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) I don't want to leave anybody out who is a fan of Lego Castles, but here is a tentative list by registered attenders... Jeff Byrd (cool midieval weapons designer) Frank Filz (brought the midieval wharf last year...really nice) Jim and Malee (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) like the candles, since I've been working myself on a church for a while (but much smaller then yours), I've been looking for a way of doing candles for a while. I also like very much the colorfull windows, and I don't know why people says the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Well, I'd have to beg to digress in terms of not having a Royal Knight's Fortress re-release. Personally, I found that the model came with an almost unmatched assortment of parts for a particularly large fortress. (the only problem is the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Lol, well, I've been active on many online communities in my time with most of them being oh so much less friendly than Lugnet. However, posting on Lugnet was the first time I ever consented to give my full legal name away online. I know that (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Actually, I debated for some time whether or not to retain the foresail. In end I opted to do so simply because it gave the ship a bit of length and added a bit of 'structure' to the front the the vessel without me needing to expand the front (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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Hello! (...) Welcome, this courage is always appreciated! And I don't know if much courage is needed to poste here. Nobody will rip off your head if he doesn't like your creations. And nobody has to be ashamed still playing with LEGO: We all do that (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Looks like you got it worked out and posted on the BIP just fine! Good work! Jake -- Jake McKee Webmaster - BIP (URL) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.inst)
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Hello! Nice, very nice, really! That's a Roman church. Dot. I like the cute and simple look of the hole building. Don't get my wrong, I know it is NOT a simple building. It just looks as chaste as a Roman church has to. The interior also is very (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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