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(...) Yes, it is very cool. Too bad they're impossible to make in real life. :( Oh, an BTW, I think I have around fourty green flames not currently in use. ;) Jeff, "Thallid Lord" ICQ #66153738 (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) The flame wave effect is awesome! The perfect way for a baddie to announce his entrance! it would look cool in green if someone actually had that many green flames. I have 4 :( They look cool if you place them horizontally in a fig's hands (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Actually, I was reminiscing with a friend(1) of mine about my "Thallid(2) Shooter" Deck. :) It was fun to really pump out those Saprolings! :) I actually haven't played in about three years, but someone just challenged me. :) (...) Well, I (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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[I did *WHAT*?!?!? *EVERY* URL?!? AARRRGGGHHHH!!!...!!!] (...) "(URL) (...) ("(URL) (...) "(URL) (...) "(URL) (...) Thanks, Franklin the Fumble-Fingered :-P ~~~ (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi! :-D I've posted some visual instructions for making "flame" markers/counters at: "(URL) idea of using 1x1 cones with flames is one that I got from Steve Jackson when I helped him run his Lego Pirate Game ("(URL) came up with the variation of (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) I probably won't be having any Frosty Dwarves, but I would like to get my hands on some of those blue "Ice Spears". My pyromancers have plenty of fire pieces to use as Flame Swords, but my poor hydromancers don't have any cool weapon of their (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I've seen King Leo's Castle in Targets and TRUs all over the San Dimas/Pomona/Ontario area. Possibly Wal-Mart too, but I'm not sure. I've only seen the 2000 polybags in small independent toy stores, though. None of the chains seem to have them (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Basically what comes in a polybagged set in the US (maybe the Americas, only know about the US) usually comes in boxes elsewhere in the world. An example of this is: (URL) the area where the "other" misc data appears it specifically mentions (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) i think my favorite theme is "when themes collide" or when i'm able to build something that's not really a theme. i like them all, but if i had to pick a fave it would be castle. i have a couple of town theme projects and space theme (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I meant *this* URL instead: "(URL) the Fumble-Fingered :-P ~~~ (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yup... "(URL) :-) (...) ^^^^^^^ Oh, do you play "that @$^$# card game", too? ;-) Check out "(URL) you're interested. I have not yet posted a copy of the rejection letter WOTC sent me, but I've been meaning to. (Please direct any comments on (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) That could explain why he hasn't gotten back to me yet either :) (...) totally agreed!!! Though ours aren't till next week... We must have started a week later than Pawel, One nice thing is they gave us tomorrow and friday off before they (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yes, and it is quite normal. I tend to shift themes about 3-4 times a year. :) I will start making Town stuff, then head over to Castle, then take a brief dip in the Space pool, etc. :) Jeff, "Thallid Lord" ICQ #66153738 (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Those are Teal, IIRC. (...) No, unfortunately, they are regular Dark Gray Halberds. :( (...) Well, I now own four Green Wizard Hats, all from Freestyle sets. :) 'Course, I like town, also, so I can use the pieces. :) Jeff, "Thallid Lord" ICQ (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks - Thpught they might have been LDrawn- POVed. (...) URL? Alex (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Yes to some extent. I think my progression went something like this. Basic-town-Classic Space-Technic-Star Wars-Castle Early to Mid 70's was just Basic and some Town. Then I went hard core into Classic Space and stayed with it from when it (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) OH MY GOD-so Does my sig fig helix wolf-the space guy just ditches his UFOStyle armour and dons one of those firemen's airtanks with his fedora(Space Helix wolf is an indy fan but thats another story)to go to space ravi (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) It's a shame those spears are only coming in the Roboriders sets... Those sets are just weird and the most non-LEGO, LEGO products I've ever seen. Set 8509 (Swamp) has some green Katana swords which look kinda cool. Set 8510 (Lava) looks like (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Brad Hamilton wrote in message ... (...) Yeah. Castle & Town started me off. In 1988 (I think?) When the first four pirate sets came out, I went nuts - got them all - doubles, triples, and quadruples of all but "Black Sea Baracuda" (The number (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Start with the minifig ... go with the theme;) Verneer has both a space and a castle version, and whatever is necessary for him becomes "in" for the time. (Castle or Space). I am too much of a minifig person though, so I am very biased;) -- pn (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Heh heh, I guess I must have been reading too fast, sorry. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'm currently going through it... i guess i'm in the castle->train->town->i'm lost phase... I want to pick a theme now to concentrate on, but I'm coming up with nothing... (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) The villain (named Kefka) from the video game Final Fantasy VI (III here in the US) always laughed like that. My neighbor and I noticed that other videogame villains began to laugh like that, too, so we started calling it the KEfka Komplex. :) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yep. I was an all-around lego lover at ages 5-12, no favorite theme. But I felt I should migrate to technic after 12 for some reason... we had a lego- logo class using dacta stuff and I loved it. So after one small techie set I bought a really (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Scarlet's (...) Thanks for the link! I was just looking for Eric's site today, twice in fact (for two different reasons...) but couldn't find it anywhere... (Geez, does everybody here have psychic powers but me? ;-) I love Eric's creations and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Back when I was about 12-14, I was highly into the castle stuff. I still like castle (and read this group), but I primarily like town stuff these days. In my current LEGO city, only about 15% is castle (actually just one big castle) and 85% town (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Umm... Ditto! :) (...) Also known as Not-quite Pure Hell Week.(1) :) (...) As would most of us. you can always post your pics to the Brickshelf Gallery (URL). Jeff, "Thallid Lord" ICQ #66153738 (URL) - That is reserved for Finals Week. :) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Scarlet's (...) Hmm... good idea, I don't have arctuic areas planned either so I guess that's what I'll do... (...) ;-) (...) Yep, he has some on his site IIRC. (...) Well, I didn't, so an explanation would be nice... :-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) ... Final Fantasy III? ;) -- pn (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well ... the best Ice related castle creation must be Eric Brok's Frost Castle: (URL) doubt that it has dwarves though... -- pn (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'll probably use most copies of the spears I get for spells. Some of my important characters will have these as magical weapons, but I don't have any arctic areas so none will have them as standard equipment. Monsters are another story. >:) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Way back when the year 2000 catalogs were released (was that just half a year ago?!) there was a mention of the trans. blue spears that are supposed to appear in 8511, a yet-to-be-released set. After that, there was a flood of very cool ideas about (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | New groups lugnet.castle.org & lugnet.castle.org.cw
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New group/lists lugnet.castle.org and lugnet.castle.org.cw have just been created for the discussion of Castle organizations and, in particular, the recently emerging Castle World site. The .castle.org group is probably not likely to get much (if (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org, lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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OK, audience is > 0 for a web page about catapults. I spent some time at a recent exhibit on Da Vinci and Brunelleschi and other artist-engineers. There were many catapult designs there! Actually, the model that was under development was the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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The pumpkin graphics used in the contest site were made with Photoshop trickery. No minifig head were painted to make the contest graphics. I think Brian Nelson's entry had a pumpkin he made that was fairly elegant. Two side notes..... One: I built (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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Hi Wilson, Welcome to lugnet! (...) If you mean Pawel - well, I know for a fact he has Midterms right now... :-) I'm sure he'll post the stuff whenever he has time, don't worry. (...) I'd love to hear them! -Shiri (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hello, I am new to this site and this is my first post. Anyways, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I join Castle World? I am working on a castle right now and have some pretty good ideas. I e-mailed a picture of my signature character to (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) the (...) rate, (...) manual (...) knowing of (...) anyone (...) one (...) The boxed version I got my hands on was marked 4801. Also available (limited availability I believe) are similarly sized sets 4806 and 4807. Of these only 4806 is (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) The long threads about how to organize it, what the map should be like, the debates and almost-unpleasantness that came up over that stuff. At a guess. Also, it could be argued (and in fact, I did, in another post) that the fiction and story (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.castle)
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(...) The administration and organizational details, which I hope would be the only things that get moved. The Castle World creations and storylines and stuff - anything that's actually Castle-related, that is - would still remain here. While you (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.castle)
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