 | | Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted —Thomas Garrison
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| | | (...) ISENGARD CAVERNS!!!???!!!! I guess I'll save myself the cost of a ticket. . . TWS Garrison (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted —Aaron Dalan
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| | | | (...) I believe Tolkien conceived of caverns under the tower of Isengard, remember when Gandalf instructed Treebeard to let in water to fill up all the caves and caverns underneath the tower so Saruman could not escape? Regardless, the sets look (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) I'm not so sure. The Prancing Pony set seems to include more actual bricks than all the Potter sets combined. When was the last time LEGO released an actual structure made of actual bricks, rather than a handful of 1x2x5's, or the equivalent? (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted —Aaron Dalan
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| | | | (...) Well, that is a good point. It is pretty sad when one set of Intellibox or whatever for $30.00 has more bricks than the $189.00 combined Harry Potter universe on S@H. My favorite thing about Lego is the minifigs, and those sculpted (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) Yeah, from what I've heard, they're just about as awful as they could be. The only mitigating factor might be merchandising rights; what company owns the minifig licensing? If it's not Playmates, then I can see why Intelli-Blox can't make (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted —Aaron Dalan
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| | | | (...) A clone zealot, are you? Do you have the Tyco castles from the 80's? (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) A bunch of bits and pieces, but no whole sets. I have a Coko castle that looks like an ice cream parlor. Does that count? Dave! (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted —Aaron Dalan
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| | | | (...) How menacing. It must intimidate potential invading armies:) I have the black Tyco castle, but missing some parts. It has pink window frames, but other than that is pretty menacing. The boss minifig has only one eye (or maybe it is a helmet (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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