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Re: Official KK and HP 2004 pictures
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Date: 
Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:52:10 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, David Laswell wrote:
In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
And no castle has ever been anything except primarily gray or black since.

Which, when you think about it, isn't very realistic.  How many European castles
are white?  How many LEGO castles are?  Besides, as long as both greys are still
perma-changed, I'm not sure how popular grey castles would be with AFOLs right
now.

Gray is lot more realistic than bright yellow!  :-)

I wouldn't mind a castle in one of the "sand" colors.  Or even a properly done
white-washed castle.


I do not condemn the revival of the theme - I fault their execution of such
in regards to what Castle fans have asked for.

Like I said, though, give it time to breathe and see what develops in the next
few years.

As we said in the computer gaming industry: MOTS (More Of The Same).  I already
have the spray paint and Rub'N'Buff ready to modify the Barbie Blue Knight, and
I'm sure we'll have a new shield template for making stickers as soon as
possible.


-->Bruce<--



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  Re: Official KK and HP 2004 pictures
 
(...) Somewhat, I guess. A lot of castles were built with sandstone, and while tan is the closest match, it wasn't introduced until 1997, IIRC, which would put it just a bit too late to be used in any of the European-style Castle sets. Yellow was (...) (21 years ago, 10-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)

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  Re: Official KK and HP 2004 pictures
 
(...) Which, when you think about it, isn't very realistic. How many European castles are white? How many LEGO castles are? Besides, as long as both greys are still perma-changed, I'm not sure how popular grey castles would be with AFOLs right now. (...) (21 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)

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