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Re: banner year for castle
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:45:52 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Benjamin Medinets wrote:
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My first impression on the castle sets is that the minifigs look cute in
their new armor...so the heros are designed properly. The “villians” have a
little to be desired.
Another initial thought was, “Why rehash “Knights Kingdom”? Maybe they
didn’t think they had enough of a story line when they brought it out the
first time.
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In other words, it wasn’t good in the first time, why are TLC waste their time
with it again instead of trying something new
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8781 “Leo’s Castle, version II?” - looks like a nice slight improvement on
the original. The front looks better, but the rest of it still looks
horrific.
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I’m not very much fond of the original “Leo’s Castle”, but alot of non-LEGO
people told me they think it’s pretty. So aside the useless bricks in that set,
if we compare the outlook of both of the castle’s IMO “Leo’s Castle” the
original is better.
Which brings me back to: Why lions again????
We had the lionhearts, classic lions, the royal lions and the knight’s kingdom
lions. Doesn’t TLC knows that there are other animals?
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8780 “Wizards Tower?” - as in the fright nights, has A LOT to be desired
as far as structure design goes. Playability is high, why not make the
building look good at the same time... OI!!
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Exectly my thoughts, alot of potential, looks awful
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8779 “Knights Joist, version II?” - generally looks fine, except for the
“wheeled horses”.... just use regular horses!!!!!!!!!!” insert SCREAM here
The decorations look fine, but slightly detract from the rest of the set.
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Again why making again something that wasn’t that good in the first time?
Comparing between 6060 (from 1989), 6095 (from 1999), 8779 (from 2004)
we can all see how the same original great idea becomes worse and worse.
As you said, horses are much much better and a nice booth for the king and his
royal family, and extra cheering knights would have been much better. The
shields there are a good idea and also it’s about time that TLC will create
various colors of horse head covers, but again more knights.
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8778 “Gorag’s Crossing???” - looks like a rehash/expansion of the Oriental
Expedition Tigur’s Roar set http://guide.lugnet.com/set/7411. Elements
within the set, are quite good, IMO, for those who buy sets for piece
selection. I also absolutely love the new “Executioner” minifig!!!
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Really not abad set. The “Executioner” minifig is also available on the castle.
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8777 “Final Slaughter???” - looks like the cheapest set in the line, and
has a nice cool barding for a horse with that scorpion. The catapult is
a bit generic, but the set in general doesn’t look too pricey.
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Yeah well a useless catapult which we’ve seen 10,000 times before. However cause
it’s probably the cheapest set, we all buy several of it just for the barding.
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My final objective view of these sets are that they are Wonderful for
kids (8-12), my guess their target audience, but for the rest of us,
fall far short of (at least my) expections.
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Playable for kids - well maybe, it still doesn’t change the fact that all of
them looks horrible. I’m probably gonna buy one of each at least (for spare
parts:-) and the minifigs), but it not likely that I’ll build anyone of them as
is
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