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Re: Castle = yes
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Thu, 9 Oct 2003 06:31:48 GMT
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Don Cox wrote:
> In Classic Castle, we never had enough Black Falcons, Crusaders, Crossed
> Axes, etc, etc, to man the walls.
> Bulk horses, cows, steers and Bufalo for the Western theme. Bulk arms,
> legs, hips. Bulk swords, muskests, rifles, yes and even pitchforks.
> Blank shields in the different shapes.
Although I am sympathetic to the idea of having more generic 'figs in
sets, I don't really agree that "we never had enough Black Falcons . . .
to man the walls". Looking back, Castle sets over the years have a very
high ratio of 'figs and accessories to bricks. The large TLC castles of
yore were dripping with 'figs---try finding bunk and stable room inside
6080 for it's twelve 'figs and four horses.
Of course, Town and Space were (are) similarly 'fig-to-brick heavy, but
people in those themes could go out and buy buckets of appropriately
colored brick. In Castle, unless you bought set 805[0], you could only
buy LEGOLAND sets brimming with 'figs to get the parts to build those
walls.
Minifigs are very nice, though. . .which might be why I *still* go out and
buy Black Falcons instead of getting the gray bricks I need to make use of
them.
I've never really understood why there are castle accessory packs---I've
always had more than enough weapons and helmets for my 'figs[1], and
thanks to TLC's predilection for horse carts there is an ahistorically
large population of Lego horses (and wheels). Consider a set like
http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/6022-1
which has two 'figs and a horse, and weapons for two more 'figs. You
could build an army with that set, and most of the contemporary sets were
similarly heavy on the accessories.
> It seems the trend for TLC is large many hundreds of pieces sets with
> $100.00 plus in cost. Make these sets in smaller sections to add to a
> bigger set.
Wasn't this the idea of the Jabba the Hutt and Hogwarts sets? Not as
transparent as the peg-and-hole system of the '80s, but present.
--
TWS Garrison
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~tgarriso/
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[0] It never occurred to me to do this when I was in the Demographic.
[1] Of course, I can see having extra equipment if you want to have all
your Castle 'figs similarly equipped[2], want to draft non-Castle 'figs
into Castle, or have lots of soldiers that are wearing crowns.
[2] Like I do. . .
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| (...) The problem LOTR, Braveheart and other films is that they are not suitable for Lego, and I don't mean the Lego Company, I'm talking about us. TLC can make Orcs, Cavalry (Riders of Rohan) troops (Gondor, Irish, Scots, English men-at-arms), etc. (...) (21 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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