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James,
Thanks for the kinds words on the set.
Your idea of Lego offering pre-made chess boards is a very good one.
As usual, AFOLs can come up with ideas that would probably be money
makers for TLC but some of our ideas never see the light of day.
It also makes sense because Lego needs to realize that chess sets
are a very different market - people actually like playing chess on
the sets besides being fun to look at.
Maybe its time for a "Dear Lego" post on this.
KK
In lugnet.castle.ninja, James Jackson writes:
> In lugnet.castle.ninja, Kung-Khoon Quah writes:
> > It was a fairly obvious idea but one I had to make and it was a lot of
> > fun making the set. Thank god for bulk purchases of the B&W tiles 2x2
> > from LD. And some timely purchases of blue slope 45 2x2s. LMKWYT !
> >
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3876
>
> What can I say? I love it! I might have used different Shogun minifig pieces
> for the kings in addition to flag changes, but it still looks great. It is
> obvious that you put a lot of work into this board. It would be nice if The
> LEGO would save fans the trouble by offering pre-made chess boards so that we
> could build our own themes. I would like to see in a SAHS Catalog boards made
> in the the following color combinations:
> - Black & White (Standard)
> - Tan & Brown (For that Classic look)
> - Blue & Gray (great for Civil War/Calvary battles)
> - Orange & Cool Purple, or Red & Blue (for those who prefer fun colors
> over tradition)
> - True Green and "Statue" Green (for those with a lot of soccer
> players...)
> Lastly,
> - Red & Black (It also doubles as a checkerboard!)
> These boards should include chess-related elements that would ordinarily be
> rare to LEGO sets, such as 2 horses per color (with saddles matching the board
> colors), 2 gold crowns, Board-matching "Princess" hats, 2 different wig styles
> for each of the queens, 2 different colored male wigs, broadswords for the 4
> Knights, and other minor things you can add to your own LEGO Collection.
> Not having the needed number of tiles, I can only marvel at the works of
> others. Otherwise, I could probably round myself up a nice board, especially
> with a minifig population of 50-something, including 2 Insectoid Queens (ooh...
> catfight!), all 3 Ninja Shoguns (Blue, Red, and White/Black), and a large
> general population, plus minions to the above.
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