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Re: Help!
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lugnet.castle
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Thu, 2 Dec 1999 17:32:33 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Jeff Thompson writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Tammy Goddard writes:
> > > I just recently purchased a 10 gallon bucket full of lego sets at a garage
> > > sale (for only $12.00!) for my two young children. Problem is-no • instructions
> > > to tell me what I have. It looks like I have two castles, two boats with
> > > hulls and motor capability and much of the "City" type sets. The castles
> > > could possibly be the Dark Lords or Black Knight set-ups. I tried calling
> > > Lego to get instructions, however they don't have them both. The sheilds for
> > > the figures have either lions or dragons on them. Can anyone help me help my
> > > kids?? Thanks
> >
> > The shields with the lions would be the the Royal Knight sets, I think.
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> Either that or Crusaders/Lionhearts!
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> > The shields with dragons on them either go back to the Black Knight
> > sets or the Dragon Master sets, most likely. On the bigger shields, are the
> > dragons blue, or green?
> >
> > The easiest way to narrow them down would be if you can describe the
> > big green baseplates that the castles are made to sit upon.
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> Well... we're kind of assuming that there are actually large castles in the
> collection if we say that :) .And, if there AREN'T any baseplates, they could
> be old-style castles... There are actually a bunch of ways of narrowing them
> down though, but I think we'd need a lot more info to do so...
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> If there are baseplates, then yes, it's pretty easy to figure out what castle
> it is... after all, only Black Knight's Castle, King's Mountain Fortress, • Royal
> Knight's castle, and the Fire Breathing Fortress came on large baseplates; and
> each was different (except for Black Knight's Castle and King's Mountain
> Fortress)...
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> Another clue is the color of the castle wall sections. If they're light grey,
> it's probably an old castle set... black would indicate a fairly newer one...
> and dark grey would indicate Fright Knights! The other castle clue would be • the
> number of "decorated" castle wall elements, and the color of any roofing that
> might be included... of course, any slopes could be from things like the boats
> and town themes as well... so that might be less likely to provide clues...
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> Anyway, as Eric said, the best solution is to head on over to
> http://www.brickshelf.com and start browsing the 6000's for castle sets, and
> see what looks like it matches...
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> Happy hunting!
> DaveE
If you have large green dragon shields and red conical tower roof pieces keep
in mind set 1906 was a promo set and outside the 6000 range (one of my
favorites). Browse throug the catalog scans on www.brickshelf.com.
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| (...) Either that or Crusaders/Lionhearts! (...) Well... we're kind of assuming that there are actually large castles in the collection if we say that :) .And, if there AREN'T any baseplates, they could be old-style castles... There are actually a (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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