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J.D. Forinash <foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message news:8f9nuj$72q$1@cc...ome.com... (...) current (...) I also have built castles with the "lift off" design. I prefer them to ones that hinge (although some of the hinged creations I have seen (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yup, I know, but he asked if any were in current production. Other sets include 725, 4020, 6276, 6277, and undoubtedly a few more... (...) Yes, they did, I have some. :) I just thought there where more than there actually are. ;) (see below) (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Same here; I'm hard at work for my first chapter, which combines some very early efforts (search for the "disappearing act" thread for more details ;-) as well as some things I've been working on with Matthew Wikins (The Cheese)... and some (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) There are; but they're not currently in production. Like in <set:6265 this set>. But I doubt you could get them cheaply... (...) Nu-uh. BV had only spiral staircases, IIRC. OTOH, there are at least two types of straight staircases; one came (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I've found the best way is layers of bricks or plates on top and bottom strengthen it enough. This is one of the reasons I don't really use it; it gobbles up plates, and bricks make it too tall... :) (I had forgotten about this use of those (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) While I don't woosh castles, I do manipulate them-- for example, my current version has levels that one can lift off one another. I find that when one goes with a design like that, it looks a lot better, much, much better. But some fool (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) ??? I often throw them into the middle of walls, and they seem to work fine. I try to make sure they are well braced from the top and the bottom, and not line too many of them up, but I have had little problem with them as a structral element. (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) What?? You mean I've been doing the wrong thing for the past fifteen years?!?! ;) (...) These parts are really only structurally sound when used as pillars. They work well supporting walkways in castle walls. :) (...) Brasso will remove dirt, (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I suspect I'm the only one who hadn't figured this out yet: Castles aren't starships. I figured this out last night. See, I'm building a largely white inner keep for the current revision of the Never Completed Castle. Since it's largely white, I get (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Wow, those are really cool torture devices! I really liked that Iron Maiden. ;) The castles are great, too. I hope you can get some more, bigger, pictures of them. It looks like you all had a lot of fun! :) I also looked at some of the older (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I remember it, and every day, I'm just itchin' for another update. It could turn out to be a really cool site, if it were updated more often. Wilson (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hey, does anybody out there remember Castle World? I think that everybody had big plans for it, but now it just sits there, all alone. <<KM>> (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Correct, I guess I mentioned this in the other post I put up. I go t them at the LEGO Imagineation Center at the Mall Of America in Bloomington, MN. Mike I have found things that are normally only found overseas or at S@H before, although this (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Check (URL) to see my haunted house. The current bats do hang upside if you use a small grey technic pin inserted into the base of the roof brick. (...) ...Allan (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle)
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An amazing time was had by all at the recent Vancouver Lego Club meeting. More details later, but for now, enjoy the pictures... (URL) Gallery, then May 5, 2000 gallery. Xandria please follow-up to lugnet.org.ca.vlc (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.castle)
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(...) At the mall of America. (Minnesota?) -Shiri (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Where did you find the sets? -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Star Wars www.filmforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Film News Mike Timm <mtimm@usinternet.com> wrote in message news:8efchsompu641b4...4ax.com... (...) (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hi David! I think that for now these are just rumors, so there's not much you can do to get them... sorry! -Shiri fut .SW (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle)
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(...) haunted houses would be cool... lego needs more ideas that are for older lego users like them... and they need bats that can hang off the ceilings... (...) a duckula minifig would be so cool... and they could make models with collapsible (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well pictures are nowhere in the short range plans as the camera has a fresh roll of film and I take pictures rather infrequently. I overall prefer the black Halberds to the "Ice blue" spears, but then again I LIKE halberds anyways. SO much so (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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