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(...) 2 years ago I started my Samurai/Ronin/Ninja w/ a minifig pack and a 6093 FNF.... Through great trade deals and a 2 dozen "surprises" in a recent eBay lot...I hit 350 troops today divided into 6 seperate armies of varying size...over 50 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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In lugnet.castle, Rob Drechsel writes: <snip> (...) Well that is a good question. Space is becoming a bit of an issue although I just got 36 16x32 Tan Baseplates and 4 16x32 Tan Baseplates in trades so that is pretty big. I like everything in my (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) Sounds like you've got a great army! (...) I'm trying to make lots of these too these days. I just created (today) about 11 generic peasants... you'll see them hanging around my tavern - though not buying much, being too poor to... ;-) (...) (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Maybe they'll do one for Knight's Kingdom in 2001? It's too bad they never did one for Royal Knights/Dark Forest, I would have *loved* that. If they go the usual route, it will probably have the following 'figs: * King Leo w/crown, silver (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I agree... but I think he meant a reunion castle minifig pack sorta thing... A la "When Harry met Sally": "When Yellow Castle met Dark Forest" or "When Forestmen met Black Falcons", or the best thing possible (IMO :) "When Royal Knights met (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hey guys, I'd put this on my website put yahoo is reee...eeeally sloooooow tonight... Check these out: (URL) a fourth installment of the inn updates: (URL) I started to put the updates in reverse order. Does that work better or not? Should I move (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Have you thought about getting a Brickshelf Gallery account? You can host pictures for free there. :) (URL) Jeff P.S. I'm heading over to check out your pics, I'll let you know what I think in a couple of minutes. :) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yahoo (geocities) is for free too. AND I only have to upload pics once. ;-) I have thought of getting one, but seeing I don't need one... I decided against it. (...) Great! -Shiri (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) tonight... (...) Anyway, you've got a very nice assortment of peasants there. :) Now all they need are tools and houses. ;) (...) Anyway, I like your troops. :) Nicely customized Spearmen and Swordsmen (and You've got more RK archers than I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) You can link to the images located on Brickshelf, though. In fact, Kevin encourages it. So you'd only have to upload 'em once. Kevin's server is also very fast. An added bonus is that you can upload a zip file and the images will be unzipped (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) LOL! I'm always ready to have pun... ;-) (...) Tanks, tanks... (replies to this section should be FUT .pun ;-) (...) Well, it's the only way I could get these high enough to take a level picture. My cam battery was running low, so I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I have some more coming in, too. :) Plus a whole bunch of other stuff... (...) If something is "stock", it means it is unchanged from the factories specifications. IOW, if you build minifigs according to the directions, they are "stock" (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) No way, gotta have Black Knights in there for the best - love that armor! 8) (...) Actually, as I was helping Mel the NLNLF put together the 'figs from the Dacta Community Workers set I got her, I was *really* pining for a similar Castle set. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Oh, wait, no. Sorry. My bad. It's not severed. It just looked like it in that first 'pic. Whew. 8) I thought maybe your inn was a really *tough* joint. I think the word you're looking for is 'innkeeper', BTW, although since she has a tavern (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I don't recognize the mini-fig head on the far left of this picture: (URL) has a mustache. Where set is he from? Or is he modified? Thanks, Elliot Hyde (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes: I think you need an opinion from someone other than a "Jeff". ;-) (...) but it is a hard thing to do. Its a good thing the Star Wars sets have good parts. My only comment is I don't like Silver Swords. To me no (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) That's the "Mechanic" head from the Amazon Adventurers sets. Jeff, "Thallid Lord" Save the Whales! I may get hungry later... :) ICQ #66153738 (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Why? :) (...) Tell me about it. I think my peasants are outnumbered 10 to 1 by soldiers. The margin would be a lot closer if I decided to count my wolfpack and forestmen as peasants, though. ;) (...) I don't like Silver Swords, either, but for (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hello guys I have some of the Lego stuff that currencly Singapore is selling and all of them is in seal condition C10.This is a Korean market version and its content is 100% exactly the same as those released in UK and USA. All the Lego pieces (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.castle)
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(...) tonight... (...) rulers and magicks in a kingom. If it weren't for the Adventures and Star Wars line there would not be very many ordinary people. The way you've given each type of soldier their own uniform and helm, is a great touch. (...) -L (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) to put grey Technic pegs into some of the holes. They would then look like the (...) found in Rain Dance Ridge and Ninja Surprise (two sets I bought while I was keeping track!) -Yeah. I wanted to do something about all the holes in the tree (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) -They don't really figure into the story, but they are mentioned a few times as one of a bunch of eastern barbarian peoples who invade Gondor. They aren't really described in detail, but the name sounded cool. They may have been in one of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) He's an Eric, don't ya see? He'll take any opportunity to run you Jeffs down to earth. ;-) (...) Thanks! Right now I have just a little bit more soldiers than peasants... not that I have enough of each anyhow... (...) The reason(s) I put in WP (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Heh... we've all got this problem. (...) Well, the "proper" height of a claymore is "from the ground to the chin", including hilt, so the sliver swords are a teeny bit long for minifigs, but then again, compared to the wrenches and oilcans (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) as (...) -here is a link with more explanation of the wainriders: (URL) a search on 'wainriders'. -Marc (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Mind you I have come up trumps a few times... 231 Hospital, boxed, no plans £5 6987 Blacktron Base boxed, no plans £9 8480 Space shuttle, MISB £30 I am collecting only boxed sets as I can't store too many made up ones. Michael Pratt (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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thanks for posting the pics! Short and Sweet: Your house will look much better if the upper and lower windows line up vertically. Build On! John Matthews (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.arch)
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I just can't get enough (I bet you can, though ;). I'm finally on a roll, so I did everything I could. Now I have to wait for those S@H slopes. The Bloodstone Inn (1) is now furnished and accomodated (at least the tavern is). Check it out: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Wow, not even a roof, and already it has a lot of patrons. :) Keep up the good work! :) Jeff (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I (...) Thanks! Most of these patrons, however, are too poor to buy anything... notice only one of them has a plate with food (red meat :-) ... The plate idea was shamelessly stolen from Erin W. :-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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The new lego knights kingdom sub-theme (rather sub-themes, we have the knights and the bull raiders) is absolute crap. Of all the good guy minifigs, we have exactly one mounted non-king, minifig. The big $100 castle has only 8 minifigs. Where are (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Nan, (...) ^^^^^^^^ I wouldn't neccessarily agree. There are some things I dislike about it, but others that I do like. (...) Actually there's another one. A brown mustached knight appears in the two biggest sets. (...) Loooong gone... 6090 had (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well my friend i have a solution-DON'T BUILD SETS AS TEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE BUILT-it was this realisation which really stopped juniorisation from gettionnfto me Ravi (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Ravi, (...) Indeed. I have bought a few small ones of the new castle, but parted them out. The last range I built fully is the SW sets, but they will be destroyed soon as well! Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) like 'em. (...) Actually i got a guy with a 9by4 sword-i guess its just me (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Huh wrong group my friend-i hope you haven't wiped out robinsons :-) You from singapore? So am i and i was wondering WHERE ARE ALL THE SINGAPORIANS ravi (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.castle)
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(...) A what?! -Shiri (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Cool place Shiri! I really dig the name too! =) Can't wait for the second floor! ~Nathan (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks! (...) Great! I'm not 100% sure about it, but 99.9%... <grin> (...) Me either... I have to wait 5-10 business days till the plates get here. Till then I hafta wait just like you ;-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well...I disagree with "any old peasant can shoot a bow". The rest is pretty accurate, but as for the first, well, there's an old English saying: "If you want to train an archer, start with his grandfather." During some periods in English (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) If you want plates, get ahold of a Sith Infiltrator set, that's pretty much a grey plate service pack. =) ~Nathan (aware that this isn't castle related now, my bad) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) That's cool... let me add my fact: I'm taking archery in Phys Ed right now. It hurts. 'Nuff said. <grin> I've been pitying those archers'o'mine... that's why I only made four... (j/k) -Shiri (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Ahh... but I want RED plates. (...) You can get a *little* off-topic... especially if it has *something* to do with the group (eg talking about SW peasants in .castle)... it's just (mainly) when the discussion is so totally unrelated to the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Was there going to be a stable behind the Inn at one point, are you still planning on adding one? Do you have an idea how you're going to do the roof? Black slopes, Red slopes, no slopes? =) ~Nathan (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yep! No specific plans yet tho'. (...) Red slopes... I have the most, and I'll need the weird inverse corners for the T-shaped building. -Shiri (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Bzzz Wrong Answer. go to brickshelf and get the instructions for the blacksmiths shop. i believe that it also has an alternare model. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) to (...) IIRC (...) There are lots of sets that have *complete* instructions for alternate models... This one, OTOH, has just a few pics that in regular TLC instructions would take about ten steps if not twenty... sorta like the 'adult kits' (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) And so does the 4.5v train that I have. And no, I'm not going to dig up the set number cause the honda website is eating enough resources as it is. Stupid honda website. (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, MR Ravi as far as I know my sale here is for castle and others stuff didn't you read my title clearly. Sorry I did not know you are from Singaporean too, maybe it is a good idea to wipe all of whole Robinsons yourself as far as I know (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'm sorry if i offended youi-just trying to be helpful i mean sorry meh i vely buisibody one tlying to help lor I'm gonna as soon as i got the time-hold your horses it is the holidays!!!I GOT TIME I CAN GO AND CHECK IT OUT (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.castle)
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(...) part 2413 with a 4070 on the first row of tubes middle tube and that 7 long bar with a rim abt 1 peg from one end fitted into the hole of the headlight WHOOO a little confusing but thats the BFS for ya (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) You can always just box up your c*** and send it to me. (I pay all the shipping and avoid an extra garbage bag on the curb in front of your house) I am thankful that Lego still does castle. You we probably too young to remember, but Lego (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) What Ravi (first name Ravi, Last name Mohan :-) meant to say (I think) was that: Buy-sell-trade offers are best placed in lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade *only*. People who are interested in buying/selling their lego will go there. People who are (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Ooops... taht wasn't Ravi's point! :-) But it was mine. Leroy, just so you know - you didn't do anything wrong or unacceptable. It's just that a lot of people come here (lugnet, or specifically lugnet.castle) to be in the discussion. They (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Archery and Swimming were the only PE sections I could ever get above a C in, at least until I hit college and got to do other interesting things (like yoga, horseback riding, tai chi, fencing, ballroom dance, juggling, rock climbing...) I (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) But it was mine. Leroy, just so you know - you didn't do anything wrong or unacceptable. It's just that a lot of people come here (lugnet, or specifically lugnet.castle) to be in the discussion. They prefer not to see market posts involved (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.castle)
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(...) You know I had thought about that but after thinking about if for a while I decided I liked the randomness that it gave the home. I might try lineing them up anyway but I am still happy with the way it looks. Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) After Shiri explain, I have understand your mail, sorry for misunderstand you. Leroy (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.castle)
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(...) number of patrons you have been able to fit comforably in your tavern. I would have never guess that so many could have fit in there so well. Also I notice you said you have to wait 5-10 business days for the plates. I would think it would be (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Very true. In fact, Yew trees were planted on Church grounds so that the villagers always had the wood required to create longbows if they were called upon to defend the land. (...) Another fun fact: these weapons are the one of the few types (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I (...) I don't know that I'd call it comfortable, but its perfect for a tavern! :) (...) The same goes for the Washington DC area, as well. :) Jeff, "Thallid Lord" Save the Whales! I may get hungry later... :) ICQ #66153738 (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well like some of the others have mentioned I don't really care about the sets. I don't think I have a single 2000 set still built. I do build all Star Wars and Castle sets at least once before I dismantal them and sort them in my parts bins. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Nice :) Your barmaid has the "Letterman effect" on her patrons...being elevated as she is. Have you thought about adding something to the underside of the 1x2x3 gray inverse slopes that frame your window? I don't know if curtains were common (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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well MR Leroy, Your sale posting doesn't belong in this group no matter what you're selling. Sale postings can ONLY go in market.buy-sell-trade. It doesn't belong at all in .castle, so don't jump on Ravi he was right in the first place. Read the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.admin.general)
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Mr Mookie sorry I had post the wrong message. Leroy (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.admin.general)
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I think trade posts _are_ OK(ish). It is only auction posts which are a no-no (?). Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.admin.general)
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As I remember it.. if the Group charter agreed to allow some type of trading then it was ok.. I don't believe we have that understanding in .Castle, though I wouldn't mind if we did.. (Correct me on this if I'm wrong!) Though this isn't trade, this (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The LUGNET Terms of Use Agreement, (URL) no requirement one way or the other regarding the place of regular sales postings. Only auctions are verboten by the LTUA. However, it's generally considered good netiquette not to spam theme groups (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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(...) Nah... grey plates are castle related. Trust me. <grin> James (URL) getting paid for this --> alladvantage.com Sign up via me, the reference $$ go to fund Lugnet. (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) --snip-- (...) i'm going to agree and disagree with this. the whole negative thing toward jr. is that the parts LIMIT the builder's possibilities. take five 1x6x1 bricks versus one 1x6x5 wall element. between the two which will provide you (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Oh well, if you want them to shoot *well*, then yeah. :) But battle archery was very different from target archery. In battle archery, there was no aiming, there is 'point in the air' and shoot. The only real reason combat archery was (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I've just recently come out of my Dark Age which was mercifully short (8 years or so) so excuse the lack of familiarity. If we don't count the Ninjas when was the previous castle theme produced? Chris (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Indeed, I picked up a bunch of the Sith Infiltrators just for the plates and Darthy when they went on clearance at my Wal-Mart. I also just placed an order with S@H for some 6417s and 1747s. I have been building up my horsemen army and my dragon (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I guess that'd be "Fright Knights"... but here's a *general* list of when themes were alive: 2000 - ???? Knight's Kingdom (Bulls & Leo's Knights) 1999 - ???? Emperor Ninjas 1998 - ???? Robber and 'good' ninjas 1997 - 1998 Fright Knights 1996 - (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I remember, thats one reason I went into my short "Dark Ages" (...) I think it is obvious that the new sets are aimed for smaller kids. My favorite set, the 6085 Black Monarchs Castle, came with twelve minifgs and no special pieces except for (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Yup, makes me remember someone's tag line... All sets are spare parts for castle creations or something on that line. (sorry don't remember who.. and sorry for butchering it!) there always seem to be some sets that have great castle parts, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) <Grin>... It's Mike Timm, IIRC, and the line is "All themes are spare parts for Castle!" (...) Yep! I just got a 6441 just for spare parts and now I'm going to try and find uses for all the pieces... Now there's a challange ;-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(FUT .o-t.fun) (...) Hmm.. I'm really awful at all sports but I always managed a B- minimum... why, you ask? Cause I had asthma... So if I did *anything* at all, my teachers would classify it as 'tried hard, nice efforts'... <grin> ... and here in (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) And wall pieces. Everybody always forgets about them when talking about POOPs, but really...why not just bricks and arches? J (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well... this is no excuse for them, (I don't like them) but they *can't* be made out of other pieces, unlike the definition of POOP (Piece [that could/should be made] Of Other Pieces). OTOH, the wall pieces are DEFINITELY SPUDs (Single Purpose (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hello all. I have a pitiful minifig army and I am willing to buy some castle minifigs from whoever is willing to sell them. Here is what I would pay for them and thier accesories: Black Falcon minifig 1.50 Lion emblem on front of torso (crusader?) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Actually mookie is female(her psudonym seems to be a basketball referance) ravi (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ahh mookie-its just the way the average Ah Beng (Genus AHBENGUS SINGAPORENCIS SCAPIAN)sounds its a little joke when people who are capable of perfectly polite speech rather than Flowery speech use the lousy english usually sprinkled with (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Jonathan! I have a suggestion for you: post this in lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade. This, for a few reasons: a. Castle fans are very likely to want to keep their castle minifigs, not sell them. b. People who read .market.b-s-t are likely to be (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(You're prolly thinking: what the hell is she doing? Xposting to .castle, .belville, .western AND .build.minifigs? Well, there's a reason... patience... :) Today I got a 6676 (my first Native American set) on sale, let me tell you the model was (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.western, lugnet.belville, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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And to add a few points to Shiri's very fine ones below.. You'll never get them at that price.. most of the figs you want go for more than 7.00 EACH if.. and that's a big IF.. you can get anyone to sell them.. much less abundant helmets for about (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Well, I sure didn't see any :)'s after anything.. though if you take those words the way they are.. they are not nice.. Though as long as you are ok with it, that's fine with me :) Tamy (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) i (...) holidays!!!I (...) SINGAPORENCIS (...) Well i sure hope he was meaning it the way i thought he was-the smiles would have cleared up a lot of trouble for all of us-i really did this cause i made a similar error quite recently with my (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I think he was... (...) Don't worry, just try to word your posts so that people understand WHY the post doesn't fit or is inappropriate to that place. Otherwise they might feel accused and get hurt (I discovered that way too quickly). (...) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Eric Kingsley wrote in message ... (...) for (...) You know, I'm really a townie, but after viewing your pics I'm really, really tempted to build more castle. Excellent job. I keep wandering back to your site with every update, so please, keep us (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.arch)
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Hi Brian, (...) Check out this message and the replies to it... Eric explains his method in detail, plus some other methods are suggested. (URL)You know, I'm really a townie, but after viewing your pics I'm really, (...) C'mon, join us! The magnet (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) I agree, I like the updates, when I start my next thing I might do it the same as Shiri is doing.. post pictures along the way to get feedback. That way something I can't think of someone else will and I'm sure the end product would be better! (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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In lugnet.castle, Tamyra Teed writes: <snip> (...) I also like what Shiri is doing. I wish I could get myself to do the same. My problem is when I get going on something I kind of get into a zone and just can't stop building to take a few shots and (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Definitely correct! Black Falcon figs for a buck fifty? I wish! (...) Really? As of late I've been paying between $3 and $4 per fig... there have been plenty of these lots going on ebay-- although some I have noticed getting to ridculous (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Although I have not seen any brown bows recently <set:4811> does have a brown arrow. Chris (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I can't remember for sure either but I think there is a bow in the castle set at least and maybe bulls attack too. <set:6091> That does not make them easy to get though. Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) My Creations at: (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I'm just coming out of my dark age so I was wondering if I could get a bit of advice from those of you who have also experienced a dark age. What's the best way to get back into castle? Buy the new sets despite juniorization or buy parts and old (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Chris, I had about a 13 year dark age myself and never collected castle as a kid (space was my game). For me getting into castle was a little tough and as you can see from my creations I use very few specialized castle pieces. I really don't (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) My advice - pick up two 6097s at kbkids.com. Pick up some star wars sets for villagers, and go from there... If you want to, get some service packs from S@H. -- pn (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) buy (...) It really kind of depends on what you want to do: make one humongous castle, a whole village, various factions bases, have massive armies, whatever. Having gone through this with the pirates line just as it expired and now with (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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