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Re: The Mystery of the Printed Stones
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Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:37:12 GMT
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David Eaton wrote:
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> In lugnet.castle, Heather Patey writes:
> > I was looking through an old Brick Kicks magazine from 1993 and this tower
> > caught my eye, so I thought I'd reproduce it, or something based on it.
> >
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=14703
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> > Upon closer examination, I discovered that the printing on the castle walls
> > was reversed left-to-right. I thought the photo had simply been reversed
> > before printing in the magazine, until I looked at the printed corners: on
> > them, the stones are actually upside-down! The pieces aren't upside-down,
> > since you can see the notches in the bottom on the upper ones. (You can see
> > the real piece on the bottom half of
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/6000/6074/6074-10.html).
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> How very odd... another odd point- there are two standard caslte wall sections
> w/ window and brick-pattern on them as well. One of them (seen at top of
> tower) is just reversed right-to-left. The second (seen at lower right of
> tower) is not only reversed right-to-left, but is actually MISSING a section
> of stones! The two stones usually found to the upper right hand side of the
> window, which SHOULD be on the upper left given the reversal, just aren't
> there! The other section of stones that's lower is there, and just reversed
> sideways, however.
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> > So are these special corners only available to the master builders? Were they
> > indeed released in a set? Or was the picture doctored before publishing? (And
> > if the last, why on earth would they do that?) Anyway, found it intriguing
> > and thought I'd share.
>
> My guess is that perhaps these were rejects from the assembly line, or someone
> was actually putting stickers on... (very well, I might add)
>
> DaveE
Or they could have been protoypes of the pieces.
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| (...) Highly unlikely. If you actually look at the date on the magazine, it's 1993... The 1st castle corner pieces came out in 1986 with Black Falcon's Fortress (6074) (also premiered in the Guarded Inn (6067) that year, but not in grey), which (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) w/ window and brick-pattern on them as well. One of them (seen at top of tower) is just reversed right-to-left. The second (seen at lower right of tower) is not only reversed right-to-left, but is actually MISSING a section of stones! The two (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.castle)
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