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Re: Best SW set for Castle purposes?
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lugnet.castle
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Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:59:12 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
> A lot of people use the SW sets to augment their Castle stuff - and I, of
> course, do the same. I was curious what people thought the *best* SW set was,
> not as a SW set, but as a purchase for your Castle stuff. "Best" could be
> defined however you want it to be - personally, I think of it as 'best price
> for the most useful parts'.
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> With that in mind, I'll present my vote:
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> 7104 Desert Skiff
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> This has recently supplanted the Lightsaber Duel in my mind as the best "SW
> Castle" set. Useful parts include:
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> 2 minifigs - Luke can be used to give variation to your Darth Maul monks, and
> Han makes an even better townsman than QuiGon does! Plus, both heads can
> easily be used in Castle settings (Darth Maul is a bit more difficult.) And
> more hair is always good! And there's even a black spear.
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> Plates! 4x8 dk. grey, 2x4 in brown and tan, 2x10 in tan - if you can't think
> of a way to use these you need some help. 8)
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> Half-octagon brown plates - these fit beautifully with the quarter-octagon
> "tree trunk" pieces, so there's *got* to be some use there. I'll report back
> when I've found some good ones.
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> 1x8 dk grey tile
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> 2 dk grey macaroni bricks
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> Throw in a couple of 1x2 grey bricks and few useful inverse slopes and you can
> see why I think this set delivers some serious value. The only thing I
> *really* miss about the Lightsaber Duel are the capes, but this set has a
> higher percentage of useful pieces for the same price.
Thanks for posting this - I was not aware of the tree trunk piece. They
finally ran out of the Dark Forest Fortress locally, and I can always use some
peasant-types.
Bruce
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| (...) Just to clarify: there's *not* a 'tree trunk' piece in the Desert Skiff. The piece I was referring to is a brown 6x3 half-octagon plate. Two of them together form an octagon the same size as the octagons formed by four of the quarter-octagon (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| A lot of people use the SW sets to augment their Castle stuff - and I, of course, do the same. I was curious what people thought the *best* SW set was, not as a SW set, but as a purchase for your Castle stuff. "Best" could be defined however you (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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