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Re: Bulk castle parts?
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Date: 
Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:52:25 GMT
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Jeff Johnston wrote:
> 
> In lugnet.castle, Richard Marchetti writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
> > > Heck no - I'd rather have bricks than pre-fab too.  The only kind of
> > > walls I'd really think about ordering would be the quarter-octagon ones
> > > (both large and small), because you can't do that well with bricks.  If
> > > I want a window I'll use an arch.
> > 
> > No arguments here with anyone, but I would make a small plea for printed walls
> > (i.e. tudor, pirate arch brick patterns, dark grey on grey rock patterns, grey
> > on black rock patterns, etc.) -- these are appealing for a variety of reasons
> > having nothing to do with juniorization and everything to do with decorative
> > options.
> 
> Yeah, I know what you mean there.  The 'rock pattern' walls are pretty
> nice.
> 
> I wonder...a lot of people don't like stickers because they're so
> permanent, but does anybody remember Colorforms?  They were a sort of
> thick plastic 'sticker' that you could put onto a special background and
> they would cling there - but they were easy to peel off and reusable
> (since they didn't use glue or anything - was it static electricity that
> made them work?)
> 
> Does anybody know if Colorforms stick to LEGO?  Can you get the substance
> that they're made out of anywhere?  Could you, say, run it through a
> printer?  Removable and reusable stickers...mmmm.  I'd go for that.

I think that they probably would. I had some Lego knockoff bricks (Tyco
I think) and those actually came with similar things to colorforms to
stick on the bricks.

Tim



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(...) Yeah, I know what you mean there. The 'rock pattern' walls are pretty nice. I wonder...a lot of people don't like stickers because they're so permanent, but does anybody remember Colorforms? They were a sort of thick plastic 'sticker' that you (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.castle)

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