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Re: The NEW Castle World!
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lugnet.castle.org.cw
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Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:00:58 GMT
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In lugnet.castle.org.cw, Richard Marchetti wrote:
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I declare this subject now open to discussion. Please post all of your
thoughts on the subject here in this newsgroup. Noise or not, this is our
home. Nothing is sacred, everything is permitted.
I propose:
1. That we maintain the former Castle World as a linked archive off the new
CW’s main page (i.e. the index page).
2. That in furtherance of point #1
that I finish archiving TIOM and create an extra page documenting some of
what was supposed to happen with TIOM but did not come to fruition. Slightly
adjacent to this last bit, might be the recreation of C. Hamilton’s webpages
as Craigo was a major mover behind CW along with Pawel. For that matter I
have at least some of Pawel’s stuff archived also. Permanently honoring the
two creators of CW would not be too far amiss, I think.
3. That we otherwise
start afresh with the single exception of the following “branded” CW
logo/button (the same button that currently appears in our CW newsgroup
sidebar, and that also appears in the current “castle” newsgroup sidebar):
For those that do not know -- this image is based on a CW logo created by C.
Hamilton. Besides being a founding member of CW, Craigo is a reknowned
artist working in the field of comic books -- notably for DC Comics.
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Sweet! I really like DC comics & I should have guessed by all those heroes he
has on his site. The Flash rules!
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Frankly, we could do a lot worse than this logo. Please take note that the
logo plays off of two official Lego designs -- the Dragon Masters standard,
and the Time Twisters logo (please note the following visual references):
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Definitely keep the logo. Aside from castle time cruisers/twisters is my
favorite theme.
Above all lets not forget what CW was made for. Castle World should be a place
were newcomers to can go to and find a whole slew of lego/castle related
stories. That’s what castle world was meant for. And I think we can still draw
inspiration from the past so don’t get rid of the old sites.
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I don’t know if people know this, but the Time Twisters 4x4 radar dish was
supposed to be a vortex on the CW map, a place of magickal possibilities --
the concept was an integral part of TIOM. There’s history here in this
image, people! I am being pretty assertive about the continued use of
Craigo’s design but we can discuss it if people strongly object to it for
some reason.
My suggestion to start the discussion going is to try to define what was good
about CW before such that we’d like to see more of it. In other words: What
do we already have in CW with which we can begin again?
From there we might consider the impact of possibly competing projects on
“castle” overall and try to devise ways of minimizing division and instead
fostering unification. I would personally like to CW working cooperatively
with other castle projects.
Lastly, we can consider the administration of the NEW CW, although this may
seem a bit abstract in advance of having more firmly established goals.
Wait for it...
Go!
-- Hop-Frog
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| I declare this subject now open to discussion. Please post all of your thoughts on the subject here in this newsgroup. Noise or not, this is our home. Nothing is sacred, everything is permitted. I propose: 1. That we maintain the former Castle World (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.castle.org.cw, FTX)
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