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Re: Castle sets are in what Era
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Date: 
Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:15:26 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:

> The castles themselves or all the sets?  They seem to borrow from the entire
> range of the middle ages.  The early castles have a 1100-1300 look to them.
> Plate armor and visored helms means we are straying into the 1300-1500
> period.  Nasals on helmets are pre-1100.  Robin Hood/Forestmen if they are
> supposed to be contemporary with Richard Coeur de Lion would be very late
> 1100s.  The Kettle helm appeared around 1300.
> 
> The Fright Knight's sets are firmly set in the Hollywood Era, and the current
> Knight's Kingdom are in the smaller Hollywood Era known as the Disneyland
> Offramp.  Ninja is the 1600's more or less in Japan: kind of the Tokagawa
> Shogunate meets the Kurosawa Shogunate.  The Bulls are definitely the Post-
> Jordan Era.

LOL!

Jude



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(...) The castles themselves or all the sets? They seem to borrow from the entire range of the middle ages. The early castles have a 1100-1300 look to them. Plate armor and visored helms means we are straying into the 1300-1500 period. Nasals on (...) (26 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.castle)

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