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Re: The cold, hard reality of Lego Renaissance
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Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:22:32 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Mike Rosulek writes:
> I now have a new appreciation for the volume of bricks you guys/gals all
> have. Not that I didn't have appreciation before, but now I have a new
> one. Throughout my whole childhood, I'd always prided myself in having
> "a ton of legos." I have never met anyone in real life with more. I can
> easily come to grips with the fact that I didn't have enough to build a
> big castle the size of most I've seen around here, and that compared to
> most of you my collection is laughable. That's understandable.
I was that way, and still am. However I've learned to deal with what I have,
and besides, if I had more LEGOs, I'd have to find a bigger place :).
> Very recently I decided to start playing with my legos again. More
> specifically, the Castle stuff because we all know Castle is by far the
> coolest. I'd been lingering around here a bit, checking out auctions,
> etc.. but today, I spent a while working on a few ideas I had floating
> around for my "dream castle." It was upsetting to realize that I didn't
> really have enough grey bricks to complete just the *gatehouse* of my
> main castle wall. Yikes. This I have a little more trouble coping with.
> I may have to rethink this whole getting-back-into-LEGO thing.
I was in your shoes a while back, when I was in the building stages for my
Halcyon Castle MOC. I was obscessed in making a grey castle. But as I tore
that down and began building my Corincia city MOC, I realized how dull and drab
grey castles were. And beyond that, I recieved most of my compliments from
said MOC in regards to the city and city wall, which didn't contain a stitch of
grey. There are some *FANTASTIC* non-grey castles out there. In fact, the
castle I hold in the highest regard, Ed Boxer's Castle, for the most part is
all white. Bloodstone castle (or whatever it is called, I forget and am too
lazy too look it up) is entirely red with only grey floors. My point is that
you don't need grey to make a castle, just a lot of imagination.
> I find a few things running through my mind concerning this:
> 1) I have to buy my own bricks this time around. I can NOT put "10,000
> assorted grey legos" on my Christmas list for Grandma anymore.
> 2) LEGO is still not cheap.
> 3) I'm not what most people would call "in the money"
Simple solution. As long as you can get away from this whole grey brick
fetish, the big blue tub sells for $20 at any Wal-Mart and contains 1200
bricks. For those of you who're counting, thats more bricks than the "model
team" X-Wing fighter that sells for $100. Granted, the big blue tub is all
basic colors and basic bricks, but hey, you can do a lot of building for $20.
> 4) Why the hell did I get so into Technic for the last 10 years of my
> LEGO upbringing when Castle is where it's really at?
Don't sell yourself too short. I look upon my castles and question if I would
have been happier with space. I look at all the boundries I've set myself to,
stuck on the ground with hand to hand combat and then think of the limitless
possibilities of space. But for me, it still all comes down to the honor of
fighting mono e mono, hand to hand, sword, sweat and tears. Technic has its
strongpoints too, such as building large, fully articulated Mechs for example,
like the Dark Gundams pictured in the cool lego site of the week a month or so
ago.
> My conclusions:
> 1) I can try microfig castles for a while...
> 2) I could build a decent-sized black, red, and yellow Technic castle
> ;) ... blech!
You know, technic pieces DO have their place in castle. I mean, how else could
you have perfect holes in your battlements to fire an arrow through, or holes
in your floor to pour boiling oil down through. And my friend Pat made an
indestructible drawbridge and port cullis using Technic pieces and pins. I say
indestructible due to the lego ballista he had invented. Deemed the 'Atma
weapon', it was powered by surgical tubing stretched to unholy lengths. In the
end, the drawbridge stood fast, and his ballista bolt was a mishapen mound of
deformed bricks.
> Anyway, just a few rants. But it's true that I have a LOT more
> appreciation and respect for the scale of everyone's castles around
> here. I guess you must make this a pretty serious hobby, eh? ;)
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> You guys/gals rock! Thanks for listening ;)
>
> Mike "send me all your grey bricks" Rosulek
Thanks for the chance to rant :)
--Anthony
http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html
"For ages 8 to 12? Oh that's ok, my inner child is only 10"
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