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Re: Hauntd Houses- What are your views?
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Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:11:01 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jim Stroot writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Alex Farlie writes:
The question I am asking is
What makes a huanted house?
I was thinking in terms of architecutral styles , interior design etc.
Posted to fun as not sure if this a 'debateable' issue.
Alex

I think this is a great idea for Town. The Addams Family mansion comes to • mind,
which I think is Victorian in style:

Sssshhhh! I'm working on devleloping it into a concept suggestion to send into
TLG, I DO NOT WORK for them though.(hence the question :-?). I would hate to
have anyone steal my ideas, or for me to steal anyone elses without crediting!.

Is anyone else working on Haunted Houses at the moment?
(I know of JMG (URL?) ,Cragio lego and the HLDC)

Also Read My Posting (Farlie-A in DearLego and follow ups by myself.)


http://www.addamsfamily.com/addams/house01.jpg

Licencing problems?

There could be plenty of ghosts and skeleton minifigs, secret doors and
passages, and a graveyard in the back. Plus Timmy and his girlfriend, who
decide to spend the night there after getting caught out in the rain...

I had the names Brad and Janet in mind (Long Explanation!)


It wouldn't be a haunted house without a few traps too. Personally, I'm • getting
tired of the glut of booby traps that have appeared in the Adventurers theme
(and Ninja, though I don't own any). It's getting to the point where a honest
fig can't walk into a building without getting his head chopped off by a • flying
axe.

Agreed, But the traps have to be in context with the house. i.e the roatting
bookcase and dodgy stairs. Have to have secret rooms!

Chopping off heads! isn't that against Lego policy? ( which I  will be happy to
debate at a later time.)

But what's a haunted house without a Norman Bates or poltergiest causing
bodily harm to their unwanted visitors?


Again , Bodily harm is probably against lego policy. Although the do have the
Ninja Range..... I personally think haunted houses can be haunted without
Norman Bates e.g the Haunted House at Alton Towers.

As to Poltergiest's these may be too extreme.

They could even recycle old Captain Redbeard and put that hook to good use...
hunting down unsuspecting teenage figs out on make-out point...

My ideas were sort of  more Phantom Manor than Slasher film.
Spooky and mysterious but now scary, violent or frightning.
Please don't take this as a crticism your ideas are nice.

Remember that I was trying to devlop this into a possible concept to send to
TLG,(Let the 'futility' comments commence.)

I posted here as the  style issues wern't specifcally  Lego(R) related!



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(...) crediting!. (...) The Haunted House doesn't have to be completely identical to the Addams Family's, but it can include some of the architectural elements or be a composite of buildings in that style. (...) I don't think we're going to see a (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) I think this is a great idea for Town. The Addams Family mansion comes to mind, which I think is Victorian in style: (URL) could be plenty of ghosts and skeleton minifigs, secret doors and passages, and a graveyard in the back. Plus Timmy and (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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