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New Castle? Huzzah!
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Tue, 9 Nov 1999 13:23:36 GMT
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So I've gone and looked (as I'm sur eall of you have) at the new catalog
scans on brickshelf. What can I say? It looks like Castle is on the
upswing after FK. (In deference to Mike, I'm not including Ninja as part of
Castle. 8) )
Of course my final judgement will need to wait until I see prices, but...
I'm excited.
* The movable-visor is back! (OK, it was on *one* fig in *one* set in RK,
and in the Dacta castle set - it's still good to see it for those of us
that were in our Dark Ages when it was common.)
* I *like* the new wide-brimmed helmets. They're a little bit unusual,
and it'll help me out when I'm amassing my armies, to give certain units
a different 'flavor' than other ones.
* The crest is a modified Royal Knight's crest. Hmm, more political fuel.
My LEGOverse past is already full of political intrigue, I wonder how this
will affect it?
* These demon-bull guys are pretty cool. More faces for my Wolfpack or
some *real* Legions of Terror to folow a Dark Emperor. Sorry, the Fright
Knight guys just aren't that scary or even evil-looking.
* Speaking of that, what's the deal with demon-bull-dude-leader's eye? Is
that supposed to be an eyepatch or a bloated indicator of demonic possession
or some other brand of Evil(tm)?
* Mmmm, seige equipment. LOTS of seige equipment. They haven't had much
of this for a while (Bat Lord's Catapult notwithstanding) It's good to
see it come back.
Specific Set comments:
4806 - If this one's cheap enough, t'll be the backbone of many armies.
Even if you don't build the cart, that's a *well* armed minifig.
6026 - I'm probably least excited about this. Two figs, a horse, and a
BURPwall. Look slike this one will be the equivalent of the Royal King or
the Bat Lord. I can tell I'm going to have a *lot* of King figures.
6032 - A catapult that throws something bigger than 1x1 rounds! Watch out,
these guys are way ahead in the arms race!
6091 - Plenty of wall sections. Is that a new CRAPP, or is it an old one
redone? The castle looks a lot sturdier and more defensible than the Royal
Knight's Castle.
6094 - I see brown torches. Nice. It *almost* looks like those towers
are designed to be modular, but I don't see the pegs, so probably not.
Too bad. I would have liked to see that come back.
What *are* those off-white inverse-slope pieces? They're on the
castle, too. It almost looks like a lion-head carving. Interesting, but
not one of the most useful pieces I've ever seen. Still, it looks like
they've been put to good use. I wonder if that odd whitish color means
they're glow-in-the-dark?
6095 - a quintain! How awesome! OK, maybe it's nostalgia for the old
"Knight's Tournament"-type sets, but it's pretty cool to see this. I
imagine I'll replace the axes, though...no sense killing the knights at a
friendly competition...
6096 - Beseiging bonanza! It'll probably be pricy, but a seige tower/
battering ram, a...er...catapult/cannon thing, a regular catapult, and
whatever that other thing is supposed to be. Some sort of practice
target?
Is the seige tower also a prison? It *looks* like there's a fig
'locked up' inside there.
OK, time to start saving my pennies...
J
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| Any WWF fans out there? Is it just me, or do these new bad guys emblem remind you of the People's Champions Brahma Bull? Very cool... (...) Saving pennies??? Time to start parting out sets, and selling pieces I don't need. Need to build funds, and (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: New Castle? Huzzah!
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| (...) Its the same dual hill baseplate which premiered in 5986 Amazon Ancient Ruins. It looks like they made good use of it. (...) Those lion lintels look like they might be cream colored. Those towers are in the same 16x16 modular tower vein used (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: New Castle? Huzzah!
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| Did you notice the decorated turning-wall pieces in some 2000 castle sets. I'm holding my fingers crossed, since it may very well be a transparent piece with printed decoration: a colored glass window. Eric Brok (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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