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| | | Is it just me? I just cant seem to get excited over the imminent Harry Potter line. O.k I have only read 50 pages of the first book, but it all seemed to be based in a modern day town environment with characters who wouldn't translate well into (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —Jennifer Clark
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| | | | | (...) I suspect that minifig proportions are actually correct for Hobbits and wrong for most others! Jennifer Clark (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —Wessel Burgers
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| | | | | (...) Oh well I'd have to see what they came up with first... (...) The enviroment will shift to a magical castle enviroment once you read on... (...) That would indeed be a very cool product line, lots of possibilities. I have my doubts about the (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | (...) That's because you're only read 50 pages. (...) Well, they could definitely do it with, say, minifigs for the hobbits and creator-scale figs for everyone else... eric (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —James Stacey
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| | | | | (...) I dont think lego are bothered with minifig size. look at the Star Wars anakin v's chewbacca, about 3 foot difference - both the same size minifig. The minifig has been around 20 odd years and hasnt changed. I do agree that the Harry Potter (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —Jeff Johnston
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| | | | | | | (...) Well, there ought to be a lot of cool "wizardy" stuff...I expect potions, cauldrons, owls (hopefully they won't use the same bird piece they use for falcons and parrots), maybe a rat (is Scabbers in the first book?), castle walls, probably (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Yes. (...) As long as it's not anything like "Fellowship of the Ring" by Iron Crown Enterprises. "So, the Fellowship player wins if he makes it to here by turn 11, but if he hasn't been to Rivendell by Turn 6 he has to make it over here to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Yea, what a game... What I'd like to see is ICE re-release Riddle of the Ring. It was a nice game, and one of the few games I have ever seen which played well for 3 players (too many 3 player games consist of 2 of the players ganging up and (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —James Stacey
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| | | | | | | | (...) Err bad news.. from what I read quote The Lord of the Rings game will follow along the lines of the popular(sic) warhammer fantasy battle series unquote (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | | | (...) Fellowship of the Ring - Christmas 2001 The Two Towers - Christmas 2002 Return of the King - Christmas 2003 *sigh* Have to wait 3 years to see them all. ARGH! In any case, I'm sure we'll see plenty of merchandise, but LEGO sets would be darn (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —James Brown
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| | | | | (...) Actually, the first of three LotR movies is out Decemeber 14, 2001. About 309 days from now, give or take a few hours. Not that I'm counting, or anything. :) I think that sets based on LotR would be super-cool, and I'd probably buy all of (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | (...) I seem to be having trouble accessing the official site, and you seem like the person to ask, given your understated anticipation of the film! Is there a mirror site available? The last time I went on it I couldn't get much info without (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —James Brown
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| | | | | | | (...) The official site is very pretty and generally quite neat, but also pretty darn useless unless your browser has good Real* support. Newline has an agreement with RealMedia, it seems. :( The good news is that they have updated the site to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | | | (...) There's gobs of info here: (URL) "Muffin Head" Sandlin (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | Ack! Don't suggest it! You know why? To get the right scale, they'd end up using minifigs for the Hobbits, and the new Midifigs for humans. Ick! (...) -- | Tom Stangl, iPlanet Web Server Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | iPlanet (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | (...) Midifigs? Is this the new music stuff from Lego? Cheers, - jsproat (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | (...) (URL) wouldn't necessarily be so bad. I wish the Creator-scale figs were a bit more articulated, but I don't see what everyone's big problem with them is. Yeah, I'd be upset if they completely replaced Minifigs, but I don't think that's going (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —Dylan Reardon
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| | | | | David Gowing <davidgowing@lineone.net> wrote in message news:G8FH27.AE8@lugnet.com... (...) are (...) more (...) could (...) more (...) I have actually read the first, well, less than 3 pages of the first book, BUT my girlfriend has read them all. (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: 2002 Lord of the Rings Lego line? —James Brown
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| | | | (...) This isn't going to happen, it seems. Quoted from a Toy Fair report(1): "Lord of the Rings will be a major part of this year's Playmates line. Building upon the interactive voice chip technology used in their very successful Simpsons line, (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle)
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