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Reflections on my Lego past
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Sun, 6 May 2001 16:14:16 GMT
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It seems to me, now that I look back, that I have grown as a lego enthusiast.
Grown, or reverted, who knows.
Now that I look back... I see that my building style has matured. When I think
about my first huge castle, built with the help of my friend Pat, I realize how
hideous the thing was. It was basically four baseplates attached in a 'T' and
each baseplate was a different style castle. The center was a large
tower-esque keep, with one tall, thin spire off set to one side. One baseplate
was a black fortress, with catapults built into the walls. One baseplate was
an empty walled fortress with a small spire in one corner. The last baseplate
was blue, and atop it was a marsh with a marooned spire and a blacksmith's hut.
Quite an eye sore castle. There were several others that followed. Each one
in the same formation, but each one more refined, the color schemes matched
better and better. Then came the day my friend Pat built his imperial fortress
for his pirate collection. That day I started work on what is now known as the
Fortress of the Mountain Pass. The rest, as they say, is history.
Now that I look back... When I first started playing with castle sets, I wasn't
opposed to painting my figures. You can the horrors that came out of that in
my one villain, Trouble. His armor is the product of me wanting golden armor
and then not wanting a set. As I tried to remove the enamel paint, the paint
thinner did nothing to the helm. But the armor began to disintgrate. I
immediately stopped trying, cried, called out to heaven why God oh why and then
repainted the armor to at least hide all of the white, stressed plastic.
Regardless of the fact that it turned out ok, looking back I never would have
painted it. If you look hard enough on Haleron, you can still see the
reminents of the silver paint I used on his helm. The silver breast plate was
lost long ago.
After that fiasco I was against modifying lego totally. I was a purist to the
highest degree. Never again would I ever damage a lego piece for the sake of
my theme. Then came my want for a cool, female knight. Now known as Rikio, I
needed a cool female head, but castle lacks cool female heads. Then I gazed
upon the Rock Raiders, and saw the female pilot. 'Well, it wouldn't be so bad
if I just scraped off a little paint...' So I did. I removed her headset, and
it turned out great. Then came my idea for a customized Lego pike. 'Nah, I
don't use these brown lances anyway...' so off I went cutting them up and
making 6 brown pikes, using the ends of the lances as the butts of the pikes,
filing down the ends of spears to they sat in the lightsabre handle better.
Then came my character for my teaser and subsiquent chapters, reproducing (and
of course making so much more cooler) armor of Joel Jacobosen's. Cutting up
six lego horns to further my goals. And now, torso stickers. I think to
myself how totally and absolutely against I was of putting stickers on
minifigs. And now, I think, look at all those figs you have. Space...
arctic... adventurers... all usless to my castle theme for one reason or
another. I could never sell them, just because I don't like getting rid of
legos... but now they're just collecting dust. So why not put stickers on
them? Why not make them useful?
Now that I look back... When I first began to be interested in Castle Lego, I
only wanted one of each set. One of each is all I need, I kept saying, why on
earth would I want duplicate pieces? And now, after buying 50 defense archers
for $1.19 each, I kick myself when I think I could have bought 2 mountain
fortresses, or black monarch's castles, or what have you. I could have bought
20 black knights or black monarch's ghost. But instead I wanted just one of
each. I look at my fellow castle heads who have armies of 300 strong, and look
at mine who before the 50 defense archers, was only up to 80 something. I
look at castles like Ed Boxer's and think of all that I could have done by
buying 20 of the hospitals he did to get the white castle corner wall pieces.
But no, all I ever bought was castle. Never would I ever buy anything but
castle. Only in the last few years have I ever bought a non castle theme for
parts. I think my first set to do that was when the Robo riders came out, and
I could have blue spears. However I think I might have bought other themes
when the Fright Knights came out... God why did I buy the $100 Fright Knights
castle... I know Star Wars helped me out a lot in getting me buying sets for
parts, Star Wars and my ever growing need for heads and hair.
Now that I look back... I've grown as a castle head. And what I'm doing must
be working, because of as of today I have 18,000 hits on my website. My
building style has matured, and though I am not old in years, I'm wise in Lego.
Now that I look forward... I hope to someday be as well known as Ed Boxer and
Robert Carney. I hope that someday I will be as talented as they are in
building outstanding castles. I hope that someday I will own as many bricks as
they do too :)
Now that I look forward... The best is yet to come. As the days go by, I get
more and more ideas for new and better MOCs to place upon my website, and
perhaps even another, new website. Perhaps in the years to come I will have
another world for people to gaze upon and enjoy, at least for a few hours of
their life.
And thats all I have to say about that.
--Anthony
http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html
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| I really honestly enjoyed your story Anthony. About your journey and maturity thought the brick. (...) How I can relate!!! The folly of youth! For if only I could go back and literally buy 100’s of the Black Knight… (URL) alas, this opportunity is (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| Sorry if this ambles a bit off the original topic, but you've stirred some random thoughts in me with this post. Interesting thoughts. I suppose if I could go back and do it all again, I would have spent a lot more money on lego as a kid, instead of (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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