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Re: Early Castle Wall Components Musings...
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Tue, 23 May 2000 16:22:01 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Richard W. Schamus writes:
> I just wanted to share some information that you may not have thought about
> or, have thought about and wished that TLC still did think about. I've been
> doing research for my Castle Wall Components project recently. This was
> because I had decided to do what I originally did not want to do; copy
> original sets. But, I've thought better of this, and have decided to build
> all the originals, and then twist them to my way of thinking, and make them
> part of my wall.
> Anyway, my research has led me to find that there were 8 original components
> before TLC abandoned this idea. I'll list them for you if you are not
> familiar with these sets. 6034 - Black Monarch's Ghost, 6040 - Blacksmith
> Shop, 6041 - Armor Shop, 6059 - Knight's Stronghold, 6061 - Siege Tower, 6062 -
> Battering Ram, 6067 - Guarded Inn, and finally 6074 - Black Falcon's
> Fortress. One small bit of trivia is that 6081 - Kings Mountain Fortress, has
> a connection pin in the appropriate spot for adding to the other sets, it's
> just a bit low because it's on a baseplate and not on a full plate. Arguably,
> this could be considered as a 9th, but it might be stretching it.
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> It amazes me that some of the most sought after Castle sets now, are sets from
> this system. I shake my head over King Leo's Castle and wonder why they
> couldn't go back to this wonderful system. Ok, It's not perfect, as you can
> plainly see, I've had to change mine so that they were actually usable, but
> for a youngster, these are awesome sets, and well worth continuing to make
> more components for it. You can always use another kind of Inn, or different
> wall tower, or covered bazaar/market, or more wall parts. If you put both the
> Black Falcon's Fortress and the Kings Mountain Fortress in the same category,
> then you have two fort's' to add to the wall as well. If they had made a more
> Cathedral type of castle, with flying buttress' you could have converted it
> into a church, (if you wanted to). You can't have a walled community without
> a few "town houses," for that warren type of look. A Castle type of town
> square, with a fountain would have been nice. Perhaps even a Roman built or
> inspired Bath for the minifigs.
That's fascinating! Just out of curiosity, how did you discover this? I agree
with you that this Castle system was a gem. I remember well the first time that
I saw the sets - in a Target store in 1984, I believe. My jaw just
dropped...they were the most exciting set that I had ever seen.
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| (...) 6062 - (...) agree (...) that (...) Like I said, research. Since I don't actually own quite a few of these sets, I had to look really hard and with a critical eye to see what sets actually belonged with the system, and which ones were easily (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| I just wanted to share some information that you may not have thought about or, have thought about and wished that TLC still did think about. I've been doing research for my Castle Wall Components project recently. This was because I had decided to (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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