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(...) Well - just ordered one from S@H Canada. $70 CAD which is quite a bit better (after conversion) than the 50 Euro price I heard from the initial information Supposedly shipping by June 30, but my experience is usually they ship sooner. Cheers. (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jun-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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Hi all, I present Cliffton Castle: (URL) (pic=link to gallery) deeplinks at bottom of post : ) Cliffton Castle, known locally as the 'Castle of Three Trees' (all right, there are six trees if you want to be picky...), is an outpost of the great (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jun-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.us.in, FTX) !!
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| | Announcing the C-C.com CheckMate Chess Contest!
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In honor of the new LEGO chess set, I am pleased to announce the Classic-Castle.com CheckMate Chess Contest! (URL) What is the Classic-Castle... ugh... C6 Contest? I'm glad you asked! Category 1: Chess Piece Create a single chess piece, any medieval (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jun-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) (19 years ago, 11-Jun-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) This is wonderful news. Thank you LEGO! :) -- Nathan Wells (19 years ago, 10-Jun-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) website is: The chess board is glued; the minifigs are not. Also, Jake says the Chess set will be available here in North America. Ken (19 years ago, 10-Jun-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, holy horsehead, Batman. Surely they couldn't do something that stupid? Assembling and gluing (or baking) the minifigs together would surely make production MORE expensive, as well as making the set far less attractive. One-piece minifigs (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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LEGO, your products have been looking great for 2005. Improved Knight's Kingdom II sets. Viking sets. Designer sets. And now this wonderful chess set*. Don't kill it with glue. Everything about glue goes agaisnt what LEGO is about: building and (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general) !
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(...) There's a huge discussion about this set over at Classic-Castle: (URL) is much worry that the figures are glued. :( -- Nathan Wells (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Awesome! It's like some sort of minifig pack with huge amounts of Shadow Knights! And, is that a WHITE baseplate under there? Looks like it in the super-zoom. I don't think they've ever offered a white 32x32! Wish I could see the faces for the (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) If you go to the "zoom" pic you can see that it's 4x4 plates stacked on top of a 32x32 baseplate in either white or light blay. Bruce (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Beautiful! I want one! Some of the piece choices are a little different than I would have done, but hey, it's LEGO -- if I don't like it, I'll just change it. The board is especially cool -- is that a new plate? Or assembled from a pile of 4x4 (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) GAH! I want that!! Blue soldiers and crossbows!! But it doesn't appear to be available in the US! ;_; Jeff (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.castle)
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(URL) chess set. (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.castle) !
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| | More on BrickFest 2005 Castle Room
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Hi all, OK, a little more on Castle Room awards, and a lot more on what should be the centre of attention in the Castle Room. I am of course talking about the CCC display: While Micro and Vig competitions are trans-theme, there will be an award (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce) !
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Warlords of the Realm, hail! (squeaky trumpet sound) I hereby do announce that BrickFest 2005 Castle Room will be hosting the EVIL ENGINES catapult competition! All elligible catapults will of course work (they will launch a lego projectile of your (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.technic) !!
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(...) As a visitor I can testify it was a good show : ) . Especially the castle layout! God Bless, Nathan (19 years ago, 17-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
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Here's a few overall pics from our appearance at the Indy 500 Festival Kid's Day. It's a fast and furious show since we only have a few hours to get in and only one hour to get out. The show was open from noon to 4pm and they had over 30,000 people (...) (19 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
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(URL) Presenting the (URL) Knights of the Round Table Vignettes>! Four 8 x 8 vignettes that when assembled form a large 16x16 vignette depicting the Round Table of Arthurian Legend. These vignettes were made using minifigs and shields representing (...) (19 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.castle, FTX) !!
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Hi all, Quick update on BrickFest stuff: I'm very grateful to Edward Kohl, who has kindly volunteered to help out with the Castle Room. If there are others who want to be involved, please don't be shy about getting in touch with me personally - just (...) (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks for bringing this to .castle Christina, I would have missed it. The first thing that I see is that you could use this when building Tudor structures which is RL often have beams at an angle. So far I haven't been impressed with any (...) (19 years ago, 8-May-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) That’s a great article. Now, I just need to find the time. I want to play with the idea and figure out how I'm going to incorporate it into a classic-castle structure. Christina (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Lost Castles?
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Hey all, seeing this in Lugnet .space : (URL) me wonder whether anyone has ever collected all the lego MOC castles of large dimensions into one place... I can remember a few from Lugnet lore but I'm sure there were more before I got online in the (...) (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | BrickFest™ Registration now online
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BrickFest™ Registration is now available via the website. BrickFest 2005 August 12-14th Washington, DC (URL) first step is to set up your Account. Or you may have one already from last year. The account allows access to resources as well as your (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.org, lugnet.people, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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Hi all, Micah Berger has made some great creatures from Greek myths. He discusses them in (URL) this thread on Classic-Castle>. Sphinx: (URL) Antman: (URL) Minotaur: (URL) Cyclops: (URL) Bruce (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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(...) Hello, I just want to say real quick, I think that is a smashing idea and will definitely boost the audience's appreciation of the detail and work put in, as well as their paying attention to such things. This idea sounds positive and has real (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hey, he still does three shows a night on my LEGO shelf. Now that's a professional for you. Bruce (19 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! I've been wanting to do a sushi bar for a while. Actually, I think I'll probably recreate this one as a vignette and keep it around for a while. Bruce (19 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Bruce! Looks like he is in need of a trip to the southern hemisphere though... And more importantly, all important actually, a trip to Ireland! God Bless, Nathan (19 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Ed, Thanks for your thoughts and comments. It seems that the idea of making the CCC dispaly smaller and more compact is a popular one, and if there is space i also like your idea of having more pace ofr an outside the walls type display. To be (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-05, to lugnet.castle)
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Nice little travelogue, Bruce. Glad to see Mr. Dangerfield back from the dead to perform, and still not getting any respect. -Brendan (19 years ago, 1-May-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Hey Nathan, So far he's been to see 11 people in Germany, Canada, Israel and the US. For accounts of his various visits (URL) see this classic-castle thread>. Bruce (19 years ago, 1-May-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) To be more realistic I would think that a walled City would be packed with buildings as merchants would want the protection. So with that in mind I think the area inside the outer wall was much too big for the number of buildings that we had (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hi Bruce, Nice!! Fun to revisit your MOCs and see them all connected together. I hadn't noticed the square cups/glasses in the sushi bar before, they're great. As is everything. Thanks for sharing! Cyndi (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Great! Where else has he been? It was good to see some of your non LOTR work Bruce... God Bless, Nathan (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) All your stuff is great, but this is especially pleasing to the eye! The curved tan pieces that cover a 2x2 area right at the centre of your fountain, are they the standard 'well' pieces in tan? From some SW set you picked up for parts for (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Hi all, Henry is a travelling mascot of classic-castle.com. He's spent the last couple of weeks with me. (URL) Here's an account of his visit>. (URL) PLMKWYT, Bruce (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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(...) Mmmmm ... cram. I'm in the "cram=twinkies" camp from my rec.arts.books.tolkien days, btw. Thanks for the compliment. Maybe I should do some LotR vignettes. I could surely turn those out more quickly than full chapters. Bruce (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(URL) AC (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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