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Re: Castle sets are in what Era
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:09:29 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Brian Kasprzyk writes:
> > What era do you think most of the castle sets are built to represent?
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> > BK>
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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 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.
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> 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.
Thanks! That was a great history lesson. (I really mean it).
Brian K>
> Bruce
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.castle)
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