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(...) Yes. they are totally useless. Send them to me. Seriously, I think grey with red trim looks great, it's the color scheme of my never finished megatrainstation. These are great little windows. I use them a lot. (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi everyone, I don't know if anyone of you have noticed, but while looking at the new 2000 castle, I noticed something that looked like a girl in the window. Now, I wasn't sure, but when I re-looked at the catalog (Kevin Loch's database) I noticed (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) hi, shiri ~ the close up scans showed here up a month or two ago, and the tex avery wolf behavior sky-rocketed in some fun and funny posts... too lazy to search for them now...but worth finding for a chuckle. one of the funnier observations (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Heresy! And what -- take off the black castle maiden hat! No, no, no! You just leave my Black Queen alone, okay? Sheeesh! First the moo-men, now this... -- Richard (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I've got good news/bad news. The good news is that the Yellow Castle WAS available in the USA in 1981. 6075 was the USA set number, while 375 was the European set number. Check the LUGNET database: (URL) bad news is that I cornered the market (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) But did you notice the female guard of the castle? No closeups, just a glimpse of red lips in the big castle photo. It might be the same face as the maiden fair, but it's hard to tell for sure from the photo. Steve (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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Guys please help me identify this brick and may I know where can I get them Thanks Leroy ___...___ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: (URL) MIME ATTACHMENTS DISCARDED: 1. Content-Type: (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Leroy, do you have a website somewhere that you can put up a picture? The reason being that Lugnet is a news-only news server - ie, no pictures. If you don't, you're welcome to e-mail me the gif (as a file attachment, please), and I'll take a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) <snipped stuff> (...) Leroy took me up on that, and e-mailed me the gif, my reply is below: Ah. What you are looking for is frequently called a "1x4/2x2 hinge brick". They're not exactly rare, but they aren't very common anymore, either. Your (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) ? (...) 6075 (...) LUGNET (...) KMART (...) Heh. Yes, I realize that the yellow castle WAS eventually released in the US. But it was released in Europe in 1978, so there was a period 2-3 years during which castle sets were available in Europe (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) glimpse (...) It *may* be a new face, it is hard to tell. Looking at my catalog, she appears to have lips similar to the old Pirate babe ("Full"? "Pouty"? Can anyone think of a good word? I'm pretty sure they're different from the Princess's (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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Craig, your minifig ideas (as usual) sound great. I've been hankering after the pirate with the white shirt and tan vest for this very use, in order to build the final scene from "The Highwayman"; but he's rather rare, only from 6277 and 6286. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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I am rushing home to build my swashbuckler. Black adventurer hat with white plume like Scaramouche/Cyrano, black cape, cutlass, dagger and maybe a pirate pistol (flintlock) I'll use the smirking smug adventurer head. Thanks for the tips Craig. Last (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'd dearly love one of those as well. Would that be the Noyes poem "The Highwayman" (set to music by Loreena McKennit, among others?) A great poem (and song), but a little...er...*dark* for LEGO 'figs, no? Especially that final scene? (...) If (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) jeff ~ would you belive that the lorena mc-kennit song is what inspired me to make this fig!? poor forest babe got bound! i love building "dark" things from lego. the juxtaposition is interesting.(~ & funny; especially when mini-figs are (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Sure. That song was the first one of hers I ever heard, playing in a record store. I stood there and listened to it and wound up buying the CD after it was done. BTW, the other option for the Highwayman hat would be the tricorns from the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Actually (resizing and enhancing the scanned image), it almost looks like the female head from Adventurers... Hey! I just realized that her torso has a print for 'feminine armor'! :):) Well, ok, I'm not 100% sure (it's a tiny picture!). And (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well if you're gonna have a female wearing armor, you've got to take those features into account! (Female fencers in the real world do). Kevin (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Any armorer in... 1) A Frazetta painting 2) A Dungeons & Dragons illustration 3) An Operad-sd 4) A Fantasy Movie etc, etc, etc. Armor with... ahem... feminine features is a pretty common thing in fictional sword-and-sorcery settings, which (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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Anybody seen Xena Warrior Princess lately?????? -Nick Steve Bliss wrote in message <8thPOAILDokZwCUfsfS...ax.com>... (...) <snip> (...) idea -- (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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