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Re: Sorta-OT: Harry Potter
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Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:21:19 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
> So, I finally went and watched the Harry Potter film tonight and it finally
> made sense: Months of Lugnet posts about HP sets, the various names (Room
> of the Winged Keys, Diagon Alley) of the sets, I finally understood all of them.
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> My sister, friends, relatives, have all watched and/or read the HP books.
> So I was really out in the cold. When buying a gift for my friend Nadine, I
> had no idea what the Room of the Winged Keys was, I bought it purely out of
> the fact it had two figures, and lots of arches.
Well I don't feel like saying "I told you so" but I had read all the books
since the beginning of the year, with exception to the last 2 which I
bought at the end of March. I really thought the movie was great, but due
to the length of the movie, a lot of the early conflicts with Dudley were
left out, as well as pieces of the story here and there....but they did a
great job of keeping to the plot of the story.... (and only added Ron
getting clubbed by his broom for slap-stick humor).
> Anyways, now that I've seen it, I realize how perfect the HP franchise
> is-there are just so many possibilities for making toys based on this film,
> due to the sheer number of sets/scenes. And a lot of those scenes/setpieces
> really suit themselves to a) Lego construction and b) role play. I had this
> impression thoroughout the film it was like "Hey, here's a new room. We'll
> put in one line of dialogue. Okay, next scene!"
Oh yeah!! I was surprised that Lego continued with their soccer theme for
2002. I was hoping for a Quidditch Playfield.....(maybe for the next
movie release sets (HP Chamber of Secrets), which will (hopefully) be released
in November 2002.
And I also disappointed with the Gringotts Bank set.....it was a nice attempt
at trying to recreate some of the detail from the scene....
If you ask me, they should have done the bank in 3 parts....
External Scene, as seen from outside Diagon Alley, traditional bank looking-
type building.
Internal Scene I, the large customer-service room with several of the
goblins working as bank tellers....
Internal Scene II, a small section of track, 9V, maybe one or two straight
pieces with a (gradual) down-sloping piece, and an up-sloping piece, like they
have in the monorail series, to allow you to have different heights of
track....hmmm
Oh and they really need to come up with a 4 Privet Drive Set......though
the scale they are using, and the building techniques they are doing with
the HP series, it would be hard to come up with something nice...
...and a Hogwarts Express Expansion set, would be very nice as well!!
> I'm also really eager to build some stuff with arches, since the HP sets
> have them in abundance-- Check this set out:
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> http://guide.lugnet.com/set/4712
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> I'm going to guess this is going to be a rather poor selling set (it's a
> frickin bathroom with an ugly troll in it). Yet, look at that beautiful
> grey arch and all for $15 CAD! HP ain't so bad after all.
The troll isn't the only ugly thing in the set....the fawcett is a tad bit
on the ugly side as well!!! :)
Benjamin Medinets
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| (...) Well Soccer has done really well for them so I don't see them axing it anytime soon, though I have no idea why they put out a new soccer field that is not really any different than the old field. As for Quidditch, I could see a lot of (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| So, I finally went and watched the Harry Potter film tonight and it finally made sense: Months of Lugnet posts about HP sets, the various names (Room of the Winged Keys, Diagon Alley) of the sets, I finally understood all of them. My sister, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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