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Subject: 
Re: Knights� Kingdom� is ugly.
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle
Date: 
Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:50:31 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Christian Treczoks <ct@braehler.com> wrote:
Additionally, one has to take into account that the market for this sets
is propably the US, where almost no-one has ever seen a real castle. Or
even worse, considers the Disneylands' Cinderella Castle to be a real
castle...

Two points:

1. Disneyland's castle is Sleeping Beauty Castle.  Walt Disney World's Magic
Kingdom's castle is Cinderella Castle.

2. Sleeping Beauty Castle is a real castle, as it was modeled after
Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany.

Jason



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  Re: Knights Kingdom is ugly.
 
(...) OK, sorry, I tend to mix them up. (...) ...which in turn is not a real castle, but a relatively modern[1] castle mockup designed by a loony monarch just before he was incapacitated. There were more stage designers than masons involved in the (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle)

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  Re: Knights� Kingdom� is ugly.
 
(...) I second that. The new KK line has nothing in common with the very idea of castles or knights - they are more like a designers-on-acid impression after looking too much television. As someone in this thread pointed out, they look remarkably (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle)

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