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Re: New Castle? Huzzah!
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Tue, 9 Nov 1999 15:20:30 GMT
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Jeff Johnston wrote:
> 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.
Its the same dual hill baseplate which premiered in 5986 Amazon Ancient
Ruins. It looks like they made good use of it.
> 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?
Those lion lintels look like they might be cream colored. Those towers
are in the same 16x16 modular tower vein used in Ninja I think. Note
that the castle CRAPP has 4 corner positions for a 16x16 basebrick, so
you can probably easilyt add these to your castle.
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| (...) Didn't they first use this baseplate in the large Royal Knight Castle? Simon. LEGO: SP[cl++++(6825)ip++b...++++(6951) PI[so++++]++ CA[dm++++(6078)bf/cr...++++(6081) #++++ YB75M (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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