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My name is Sun and I TOO am a Lego Ninja theme fan. Like many other compatriots on this board, I was brought out of my dark ages thanks in part to this theme. My current involvement with the theme is fairly limited because of other Lego projects etc (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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I didn't even notice this news group until today. It's great that there is a place now where I can be sure to see stuff on ninja and nothing else to water things down :) So I was just wondering, how big are everyone's ninja armies? I asked this (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Maybe not as ambitious as you think. I was only going to build one of the main donjon but it would span 4 large grey baseplates - am guessing 84n x 84 studs wide at the base of the donjon. Will report once I have done a nawabari ("laying down (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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I spent last night sorting my ninjas and was wondering how you guys categorized them. There are black, grey, white, red, and green ninjas. So does each ninja class perform different jobs in your worlds? (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) You'll need some black hulls! (...) I think there's a minor difference between full-blown junks and sampans (sorry, I learned the spelling used by the US Navy during WWII--as maru traffic vanished, US subs began spending torpedoes on (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Yes...when the Ninja theme came out, I immediately thought cool! Shogun with Lego! If you ever read or saw James Clavell's "shogun" you'll see that the Portuguese were very active in Japan. I realize this novel takes great liberties with (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) To the best of my knowledge, junks (later called san-pans) were Chinese/Korean in origin. I was under the impression that a majority of Japanese ships were coastal vessels, small fishing boats or galleys, designed for short journeys and (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) That's a great scene! You can build some neat small ships out of non-pirate pieces - then you could do a Commodore Perry scene. Well, you have definitely inspired me - I already have my pirate crew assembled, and I'm going to start working on (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) You and me both =8^) (...) The reason why I built my "Gatehouse" in such large scale was to get a feel for how large a structure would need to be to accomodate many of the rooms you mention. A personal goal is to build a structure that can (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Answered offline (...) www.bricksmiths.com (...) Count me as interested, depending on price point, and I don't even "do" castle. :-) Larry Pieniazek Bricksmith www.miltontrainworks.com (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) No pirate ships. I don't have any and they are WAY too expensive in Japan. Two pics from that MoC are here (URL) plan to rebuild and overhaul this idea later since very few of the photos came out well. Chris (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Well, there were a lot of Japanese pirates. They used to make life very unpleasant for the Koreans and Chinese. The Koreans called em "Wako". Chris Barker chris@superfami.com (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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4 48x48 plates? Are you sure that will be big enough ?_? I went there years ago and all I remember is that the rooms were small and the floors were dark brown wood... Have you looked at (URL) ? lots of pics and it has a good English section for (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Guild of Bricksmiths (URL) Finally, I like the white+ blue combo for castles e.g. Himeji which was (...) Very ambitious! Are you thinking of dealing with the fact that each structure is built from a different base altitute? Chris (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Hmm, a Ninja island for the Pirate Game... I'll have to think about how that might work into the game... Of course there's lots of opportunity for piracy and whatnot in the oriental world. In fact, that corner of the world is one area where (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Definitely! Especially the Imperial Armada troops like in set 6280. I've even considered adding a William Adams/Blackthorne character to my Samurai ranks. Christopher Pisciotti Loch Forest, CA (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Actually, I was just thinking about that whole concept. There is a big Pirate Game get-together that is supposed to be happening in June, and I was thinking about the possibility of building an island inhabited by Ninja types. I would love to (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Also the usual range of rooms you'll find at any military-type structure... kitchens, training rooms (dojo, in the case of ninja stuff), barracks, servants quarters... probably more stuff, but these are the first things that pop to mind with (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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Here's my open question for the group which will help me out when I am planning my interiors. I am planning a very large (4 gray baseplate) Himeji castle and would like to have some ideas on what people have read or think are legitimate Japanese (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Chris, Now you got me intrigued. Who are the GoB folks ? Do they have a website ? I might explore the possibility of a custom castle if people are interested but I don't even know how to gauge interest ? Also, to make the custom set reasonably (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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