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(...) part (...) I think I have to agree with Eric. I am more into MOC than putting together a set. The figs are the actors in my little plays and the sets give me parts for the props and stage. I can't imagine collecting all of the sets. My wife (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Welcome back!! Please tell me you forgot the dead fish... :) (...) Ditto... Mine has a beard and uses the Ninja Master head, plus he has a wicked-cool staff... ;) (...) Yup, I've got a scanner... (...) Yup, I have every forestman fig... (...) (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Welcome back! Nice to see you again! (...) <donning flame suit> ;-) Guess that proves who you all need 'round here... me! </flame suit> (just kidding, just kidding!!! :-) (...) Thanks! I decided to leave the stairs small because there isn't (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Well, i'm back, and i still have all my figs:) Banff is great! My only prob is that I came home with a windburn. I know this isn't .castle realted, but I picked up the Y-wing/TIE set, and the B-wing. They're pretty cool. Anyways, it looks like you (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Basically four constant subthemes. :) Jeff (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Do you mean four constant sub-themes...? Or maybe four different "nations"/"armies" (eg Bulls, KK, Falcons, WP)? -Shiri (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, I personally want good sets and consistency. Idealy, Lego would stick with around 4 teams, and each year they'd come out with a $15.00 set for three of the teams, and the fourth team would have the rest of the price range. Each year it (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) For me its all about the figs even the better sets are not as good as anyone here can do one their own. Sure some give inspiration or have a cool rare part here and there but for me all I look for are fig's and generic parts I really don't (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hmmmm... sounds like your Shadow-Blade and my Black Blade may have been created by the same wizard! I suppose that it is a common theme for black swords. (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well... like Jeff, I'd vote for both. (...) A 6090, no. (I love the RK figs). The others... maybe, and maybe not - but that's simply because I already have all the KK figs and although they are really cool, they don't offer much variety. If I (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yes. Well, for me it's both, anyway. J (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Actually the first sign of Insanity is me showing up. :-) (...) "Gaurds seize them!" "Uh... m'lord there is only the one." Don't worry, so far no humans have been harmed by my mini-fig army. :-) -Lord Insanity My Lego Page (URL) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Is it the minifigs people want from long ago or is it just the better set quality? Would poeple buy a 6080 or a 6073 or a 6090 with knights kingdom figs? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) This could be rather cool. Thanks for the offer! :-) (...) Possibly. He has traveled various other planes/dimensions/re...es/[etc.]. (...) Mostly a sorceror, but also a very skilled swordsman. Most of the time, he uses a "shadow-blade" (a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) oohh, and they look sooo cool! the eyes positively glow from behind the red cowl! 'lil Mephisto keeps a pair wit him at all times as personal bodygaurds (the lapis royal family is always out to get 'im!) later ~ craig~ (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hmm, perhaps this _is_ your character, I've not named the charcter or given him much definition in the story I'm writing, Depending on a lot of things could we share? James from Oz (or is it Nihon?) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I've been experimenting with white and purple screens, but neither seem to work terribly well.. I'm not sure if its the colour of screen, or my image processing package (GIMP), lighting, or my cheap fuzzy camera. Most probably it is a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.publish)
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(...) ^^^^^^^ Ahh sounds like urban sprawl! Your town's planning commission must have fallen asleep some time back! (yea! more castle! :^) (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Chris! (...) Welcome! Good to have you back! (Well, in a way :) (...) LOL! (...) Looks great! I like the way you use "old" looking scaffoldings and peasants working on the castle. I tried that but didn't go very far...: (URL) project is pretty (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) He may be referring to the equipped Crusader figs from a recent Auczilla :^) (which are new condition from a certain Mr. Lehman) I've am just reaching the point where the prices I'll pay for them is starting to fall off, I needed to reach a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I like the Knights Kingdom overall, there always seems to parts of things that every person doesn't like, but that's personal taste mostly. Some things are bad, stupid or just unpopular (i.e. timmy). I think the figs are very good in this (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Howdy all, I just came ot of the Dark Ages after the New Year, having been away for about 10 years (more like 15 if if you only count "serious" Lego endeavors. I've had to start anew since my parents still have all of my old Legos (and intend to (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Unfortunately, the Target here in Champaign-Urbana (Midwest) still has it listed at $4.99. It must either be a regional thing or a computer error where you're at. Now I'm jealous... Chris -- Remove the nospam machine name in my email address (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) my main character I'm doing for CastleWorld!!! >:-( DAMN the budget, I MUST get a digital camera NOW!!! Without one, all my glorious plans for total worldwide domination will UTTERLY FAIL!!! CURSES!!! FOILED AGAIN!!!! [THWACK!] Thanks. I'm (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I created a "demon ninja" several months ago, using a red ninja, using a Darth Maul head, and replacing the yellow hands with black ones. You can see two of these assisting Craig's Mephisto, riding atop someone's Linux penguin, while attacking one (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Great minds think alike = ) I only have 1 zombie Ninja... created a character for my Samurai named "Pharo-moto" pictured on my webpage...I had originally used the gray head as a Kabuki-style samurai death mask like on my Maulanaga fig, but I (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) headband... (...) Hey now, no stealing my ideas! =) Okay, so you have one zombie ninja...I have about 20 of them as one of my CW armies...have an Oriental necromancer with an army of zombie ninja crossbowmen, and a big zombie horseman to lead (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Eric, I don't have much time but I'll join in on the comments with a few of my own: -I love the look of the stables in general and the compatability with the Inn. -The way the roof's sloping degree changes gives it a really great, rounded look (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Food, we don't need no stinking food. It just eats away at the LEGO budget. Seriously though this is the dining room table. The kitchen table is unaffected (So Far). Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) My Creations at: (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks, Just remember the dacta sets are only low slopes which I only use on the top few courses on the stable. The rest are regular slopes you can get from S@H if you live in North America. Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Go right ahead! :) Personally, I like my Heralds more, using the Torso and a peasant's cowl, and holding a bugle. ;) (...) Y'know, they say that the first sign of insanity is talking to oneself... :) But I do it all the time, and I'm not (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Er...actually, we do...I dunno about Boston specifically, but they have them in Danvers, MA, and in beautiful tax-free Salem & Nashua NH. The Target website says there's ones in Taunton and North Attleboro too, but I have no idea where those (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Very nice! But you've yet to answer the really big question I have about your buildings.... if they've taken over the dinner table, where do you eat? :D eric (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Bobbed hair? Is this what those stripes are meant to represent on all the Ninja minifigs? I thought it was sideburns. Or are we saying "on the men it's sideburns and on the women it's bobbed hair"? :D eric (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Ooops! I was GOING to say (when my line of thought was rudely cut off by the king) that I really like Jeff S.'s use of the king's minifig as a page-boy... and that I might "borrow" the idea once I have more than two of these (because, as I (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) That's my problem... my weapons collection. If I use all my grey swords for the knights, the footmen (nonmounted swordsmen?) won't have enough left. (...) Triple negatives are in no way not my favorites. :-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yah, most people do. In fact, I do too. But I decided to try those out, 'cause I realized I had as much swords as 4811 figs... I also have a non-mounted swordsmen unit, using the grey swords. (...) Thanks! The swords, I think, give them an (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) knights (1) (...) it (...) the (...) I prefer the grey swords too. I'm setting aside all the silver swords and crowns from the King Leo set for my treasure room, but I keep buying additional polybag sets for the figure and replacing the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I know what you mean. My problem is that I prefer the grey swords. BTW, it looks like you have a great start on your army. I've always thought of the 4811 figs as foot troops, but they look good as mounted knights. I have been using my extra (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) If you have way too many silver swords, send them over to me :-) What with 4811s at easy reach, I'll be runnin' outta swords for my knights (1) soon... So how many did you buy, anyway? At that price, it's much more worthy than 4811s at retail (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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