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Re: Knights Kingdom, Steel in short supply?
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Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:20:12 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Jon Furman writes:
> Why is anyone guarding the "guarded treasury", the only treasure there is
> the silver sword, and Cedric already has it! He comes with it in the Bulls
> attack! Not only does he have it, but his idiot catapult friend has one
> too! In fact the things are so worthless, they leave them hanging outside
> the walls of King Leo's Breezeway er.. uh, I mean castle.
Maybe the Bulls are counterfeiting them, and the guard has to make sure future
generations will be able to know which silver sword is the original. I mean,
the Bulls are bad guys, they are probably up to something.
> Has anyone else noticed the pronounced lack of regular swords available in
> the Knights Kingdom sets? And that "hard to find" silver King's Sword Hah,
> it's everywhere. If you purchased every Knights Kingdom set available for
> retail sale in the U.S., you would only have 5, count 'em, 5 regular gray
> swords. However, you would also have 8 "special" silver swords. Not very
> special anymore in my estimation.
Yes, I noticed that. Small sword are more practical. What would one of those
silver things weight?
> If you purchased all four Chrome sets, you're not doing any better, you get
> one more of each. Now maybe focus groups say that kids don't want to have
> small swords, but do we have to flood the market with silver ones? And
> those stupid ,2x the size of a real axe, halberds? Crossbows are now
> included with every set too!
I thought halberds were stupid when they first appeared in Dragon Masters.
They just look to big to use. I like crossbows.
> So why am I mad, well just a little ticked, They are ruining the castle
> theme , just like they ruined the pirates. I can't believe it didn't get
> cancelled after the fright knight disaster.
> Jon
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| Now this is a good explanation! A whole counterfeit racket! I am glad you came up with that, because I was getting ready to write the whole 2000 series off (even though I bought them all, thus enabling my co dependent relationship with Lego) (...) (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| Why is anyone guarding the "guarded treasury", the only treasure there is the silver sword, and Cedric already has it! He comes with it in the Bulls attack! Not only does he have it, but his idiot catapult friend has one too! In fact the things are (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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