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Re: Ultimate castle theme..
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Thu, 28 Dec 2000 04:28:17 GMT
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On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 22:45:10 GMT, "Bones Dragon"
<necrobones.nospam@ihatespam.necrobones.com> wrote:
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> Hey there everyone! I was just curious as to what everyone's thoughts
> are as to what they think would make for the ultimate castle theme. I've
> got some opinions on it myself, and a lot of it stems from the frustrations
> of starting out only with the current theme, and having the older stuff only
> available on ebay, rather than already having stuff from collecting it
> all along...
I haven't done the ebay thing but have picked up some older sets,
watch buy.sell.trade group here, I have gotten stuff at decent prices
from there.
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> I think for me, what I'd consider to be a fantastic lego castle theme
> would be one that takes some of the best ideas from each of the
> castle lines we've seen so far. I love Knight's Kingdom for the detail
> and some of the styling. The siege engines are neat, the minifigs
> look good, and there's a wonderful abundance of weapons and
> accessories. What I don't like about this theme is that simple things
> like standard fantasy stuff are missing (such as decent-looking
> dragons and wizards and the like.. I mean really... a dragon with
> transparent red wings that's only available in a hard-to-find
> promotional set?? Auuugh!),
It just depends upon WHEN you got (back)into Castle :^) Some of us
have a bucket full of dragons (mixture, both green and black) from
earlier sets, I know that I have more of the black ones than green
ones though, 6008 Bat Lord has one and was hard to resist on clearance
:^)
> and it's hard to put together a
> good castle. Basic castle walls aren't even in the current sets, for
> instance (except maybe king leo's castle, but it's expensive to
> get multiples of, and right now is hard to find, and besides how
> many of those green bases etc do you need??)... And heck, they're
> not even offering accessory service packs, or minifig packs for
> this theme yet.
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> I looked back at some of the older sets and saw some neat things
> and got some interesting ideas. Some of the sets from the 80's
> had a "simple but functional" sort of look. Nice small fortresses with
> those castle wall pieces, and hinged in some cases (such as 6073,
> 6075, 6080) and there used to be a drawbridge/gatehouse set
> once upon a time (6078).
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> I think one thing that's been lacking all along though is modularity
> and scalability. So here's what I think would be really awesome:
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> 1) Sets that consist of maybe a section of castle wall and a tower
> that snap together with pin/socket joints. Each one could come with
> a catapult or some other siege engine, some good guys, and some
> bad guys. This would allow you to build a castle or fortress as large
> or small as you want, depending on how many of the sets you buy.
Some of the Ninja sets were *MUCH* better at being modular than other
lines, specifically the Flying Ninja Fortress and the Stone Tower
Bridge (the STB is especially nice with multiple middle sections).
This would be kind a nice, but its geared VERY HEAVILY towards the
more 'extreme' level of enthusiast. The problem I see with it would
it sell enough?
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> 2) One or two different gatehouse sets, with portculleses and
> drawbridges. Also modular.
This sounds good.
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> 3) Seperate fantasy packs that have dragons, wizards,
> skeletons, ghosts, the like. That way you can add as much or
> as little of a fantasy element as you want.
Choice is good, but you can get too much of a good thing.
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> 4) Peasant/village sets, so you can build an outlying village around
> your castle (or in it) if you want.
Something like this has been on wish lists since castle was
introduced.
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> 5) Service/expansion packs with soldiers or peasants (extra
> minifigs), or dungeon trappings, or packs of weapons and
> armor and horse trappings, etc.
I would have to say the only way I see any significant amount of this
happening is through Shop at Home/Bulk packs style of delivery.
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> Thoughts? Ideas? Comments?
Have been given, its not that I don't like the ideas, i just don't
think its going to happen, or if it does, not soon.
Mike
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All other themes are just spare parts for Castle! :^)
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| (...) Well, I think he's discussing not only modularity within a set, but having multiple sets link together easily to form one bigger set - sort of the way you can put together the 3 different grandstands and the main Soccer set to form a stadium. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| Hey there everyone! I was just curious as to what everyone's thoughts are as to what they think would make for the ultimate castle theme. I've got some opinions on it myself, and a lot of it stems from the frustrations of starting out only with the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.castle)
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