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(...) matter of time. Those are incredibly crucial sizes, especially when making the parapets on my classic castle walls! Kevin (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) ? I'm not saying I'm forced into buying them or anything-- I'm not even against them offering the piece... Like you said, I just wouldn't buy it. It wouldn't be a terrific suprise for *me*. I mean, I'm not ordering blue train windows by the (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Do we really have bulk bricks? I haven't seen any 1x1 or 1x3 bricks yet. How can you make really cool stuff without the 'odd' size brick!?! We need to finish off the bulk brick line. But, I must say, I love them castle walls too. So, all those (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) You know what I really love about the Bulk Brick packs from Lego? You don't have to buy something if you don't want to! Imagine that! Finally, the pieces are being made available to the people who want them, in the amounts they want! Isn't (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yeah, same here. I don't ignore them completely, but I certainly don't have a need for more than, say, 50 of them, which I already have by a long shot. (...) Hear hear! Although I have to say I need more doors-- especially the "old" doors like (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I do!!! Give me walls! Castle walls! In beautiful light grey, dark grey and tan!!! (REAL Crusader [as in Holy Lands] castles) Give them printing! Rock patterns and tudor style! I love them castle walls! I love 'classic castle' and I love my (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mookie" <Mookie1@telocity.com> (...) <snip> I couldn't have said it better myself. I can't stand the castle wall pieces, myself. If the "surprise" is bulk castle wall pieces, then at least *I* won't be buying any. (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Adding my voice to the fray... The last thing I need is more castle walls to dump in a rubbermaid tub and ignore. Bricks, plates, slopes & arches in a variety of colors (preferably "muted" colors like grey, dk grey, tan & brown) are what will (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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NOOO...OOOooo not castle walls, who builds with them anyway? I've got 3 shoebox size containers full of them and I never use them. BRICKS... and more BRICKS... that's all I need, cool bricks, corner slopes 33, 45, 66? (extreme) in all colors, 2x2 (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) You can order directly from Shop at Home UK, the restriction is only that you have to have the stuff shipped to an address there. Make the order and pay on-line - you just need to make an arrangement with someone in the UK to forward the stuff (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Does this mean that you ordered directly from Shop at Home UK/Europe? -Marc Nelson Jr. (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi guys, hope I'm not waisting Lugnet Castle space but I just fine-tuned my shield design for my 383/6078 Knight's Procession guy and wanted to show you how it turned out. Its pretty cool lookin I think. (URL) Pederson, early castle fanatic (URL) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) That would be cool! I could really get into the old armor in dark grey, light grey, and black. Especially Black for me, but I could be happy with the old dark grey. Hmmm...I guess I am referring to the old "articulated" armor while you might (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Kbkids.com has all four for $4.99 each. $1.00 off their normal price but still the same as S@H if you can't them elsewhere in the US. John #388 (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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To: Loyal Subjects of Ikros From: Sir Haleron of Ikros, Commander of the Lion Crest Knights Re: Ikrosian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Konigsland Today marks the great step in the history of our country. One of our Templar have wandered far from (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I just checked my credit card bill and I've been charged $604.22 for whatever I ordered. I'm hoping this means they have everything I've been charged for. Jimmy (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) It could be just the fact that there is/was new castle sets released this year... That's my guess anyways, a number of store around me have either NO castle or just the leftovers.... Mike (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) There is no customs duty on LEGO being shipped into the US, I think what needs to be done is for the description put Construction Toys, LEGO in that box on the form. Ask in Lugnet.shipping to be sure (I don't do a lot of shipping either way). (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, I'm not sure that this means that it's only the S@H dept. that's doing this, although it could be. My guess is that it's one of three things: - Accessory pack w/ Kinghts' Kingdom equipment - Bulk ordering for castle parts - Something (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) One method to make shorter looking mini-figs may be seen at this link: (URL) look a basic 1x2 black brick (or you can use 2 1x2 black plates for even shorter people) and painted one small gray/white line to make it look like legs and then 2 (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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Just been to the Entertainer and TRU in Cardiff and they both say they are no longer stocking Castle Lego the guy at TRU said it was due to product line refocusing. Now I know the sort of people who work in toy shops - I worked in one for a few (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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My packs arrived last night so I'd imagine the orders placed on Friday will arrive within the next day or so. I'll keep people uptodate on their packages. Is there any problems with customs sending packages to the states from the UK. Ive had (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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"James Stacey" <James@minifig.co.uk> wrote in message news:GD26q2.Aw0@lugnet.com... (...) anyhow) (...) see thread in lugnet.loc.uk Woolies regards lawrence (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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What UK stores have the Chrome sets. I haven't seen amy about. btw. TRU in Peterborough (who incidentally seem to have the best selection of Lego anywhere Ive seen -better than the Cardiff store which sucks anyhow) has a fair few Fright Knight sets (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Ok, I know this thread has been beaten into the ground, but I have to say this one thing. According to Jimmy, he says that there will be something added to the S@H catalog. Some long requested wishes will soon be granted. Well, I don't know (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) The shield was certainly a disappointment. Even the Lion shield would be better. I was surprised that they gave the "bad guys" the silver shield... I also didn't like the dragon set. Expensive given that I really don't need anymore dragons (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I wholeheartedly agree. I hoped that lego would be forced to make a smaller minifigure when they purchased the rights to SW Episode I. It was pretty disappointing when Anakin turned out to be normal sized. Then I hoped that Lego would buy the (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) In Canada, King Leo's Castle goes for about $86.00 Canadian! (Thats about $60.00 USD) I still think that Canada has the best Lego prices in the world...Sure, we don't have the bogo 50% off sales, or those Aims 75% off super sales, but overall (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Gee, here in Australia the Castle sells for $199 Aud.. thats around $100US....!!!!!!! Kev...: ) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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Todd I checked out your creations. Very nice. The black riders look very menacing. Great job. Hard to make the hobbits look shorter though. It would be nice if Lego would go more fantasy and come out with a hobbit, dwarf, or even child size minifig. (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Glad someone else feels that set isn't worth $80.00. I want the black hat too, but not for that price. All the other rare elements (flags, banners) I picked up on Brickbay dirt cheap (less then a buck for all the flags and 'sail' back castle (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) As I posted in the shopping section of the marketplace newsgroup yesterday, my local Kaybee Toys store here in Virginia just got in a fresh shipment of the Chrome Knights after previously selling out of them last month. So it seems like (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) In the U.S. these items are supposedly readily available from Shop@Home at full retail price plus shipping. I bought several boxes worth, enough to make 4 complete chrome warriors at a KB Toy Liquidators for BOGO 50%. Then I went back the next (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi all, I was just looking through the 80s catologs, trying to see if there was any other accessory pack sets I hadn't looked up the numbers for, and I didnt see any that had the 016 castle figure set offered. I thought maybe a lot of you haven't (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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A whole batch of the Chrome Knights 4816,7,8,9) has just suddenly appeared in some UK stores. Are there now unavailable elsewhere? Is there still demand, or has everyone stocked up when they could? regards lawrence (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Sauron was Morgoth's lieutenant in the Bad Ol' Days. Morgoth was the original Dark Lord, sort of a fallen-angel figure that had a great hand in the making of Middle-earth. He was originally known as Melkor, and was on the first rung of power (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I have a first draft of my LOTR figures that I took pictures of last night. Maybe you can use some of the ideas. The 9 walkers in Hollin, with Legolas looking ahead with his keen elf eyes, and Gandalf and Aragorn leading Frodo, Sam and Bill. (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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*Phew* Shouldn't have posted before going away for the weekend I guess. 50 odd emails this morning If you have ordered to my address and havent sent me an email letting me know please do, or I'll have to keep your lego :) If you havent heard from me (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) The samples are fabulous. I'm quite the latecomer to the Yahoo group with nothing much to contribute except my opinion. I'm not much of a graphic designer but I'll be a great customer. JSA -- Green Bay Lacrosse-- Play hard; play often. (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hello Bill, Funny you should mention it. I was tinkering with some LOTR figures about two weeks ago. I've posted them for you to check out. (URL) think that I've taken them about as far as I'm going to. If you like any of my design elements (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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