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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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