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Re: Castle Fun
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Fri, 23 May 2003 04:55:23 GMT
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This was a good idea Lenny.

What is your name?
Stephen Wroble

How old are you?
50 - older even than Alan Findlay, but playing with LEGO keeps me young.

What does real life mean for you?
I'm a college professor, I teach computer graphics and multimedia production.
That's why there's so much Flash stuff on my website, I use it for
demonstration in my classes.

I also love medieval history, I minored in it as an undergrad and even started
to learn Anglo-Saxon at one point.

Do you have a sig Fig (post a pic, if you can)?
Nope. But my favorite minifig is the Dragon Master knight (with the dragon
crested helmet) and if I had a sig Fig it would one of them.

Favorite Castle set?
Black Knight's Castle - 6086. In my opinion, the last "good" castle LEGO made.

Favorite Personal MOC?
Whatever I'm working on at the moment is always my favorite, right now it's a
smith's forge. I think my Wizard's Tower is good though.

http://swroble.home.att.net/Projects/Things/Wizard/Wizard.html

Favorite Other MOC?
I agree with Lenny "How can I pick just one?" It seems like I see something
every day or so that makes me say "Wow. What a great idea!" There are some that
stand out, but this list is by no means complete.

Robert Carney's work inspired me a lot when I was just getting started.
http://www.carneycastle.com/

Kevin Hall's Androstavia site inspired me to make my own website.
http://www.ozbricks.com/andrastavia/

Johannes Koehler's Falckenstein inspired me to start thinking BIGGER.
http://www.chutspe.de/steinwerk/falckenstein/

James Stacy's Castle With Keep is pretty cool.
http://www.minifig.co.uk/models/castle3.htm

And Jeremiah VanderMark's Bowman Field's Cottage is pretty cool too.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=31022

There are a lot more, but I have to finish this post.

What is a project you'd like to do but just don't have the bricks?
I would like to be able to build a castle AND a town at the same time.

What would you like TLG to do with the castle line?
I think the 80's had the best castles. A lot of them were modular and you could
connect the different sets to make bigger castles. I'm glad TLC is re-releasing
some of them as LEGO Legends, it would be great if they continued that and
re-released them all.

AND go back to making castles with a little more historical accuracy. For
instance, they could make castles that actually HAVE WALLS IN THEM! (Sorry, I
had to get that off my chest.)

AND TLC should stop the whole "good guy, bad guy" thing and let us decide who
is who.



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(...) Yup. (...) What? Castles had walls in real life? Where did you get this crazy idea? I thought they all consisted of pre-shaped ground, trap-doors, and ghosts. (...) Agreed. I think Lego® inspires a lot of creativity building-wise, but the (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.castle)

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Hey all, it seems lugnet.castle has been kinda quiet lately, and since I don't have anything new to post, I thought it might be fun to do a little survey kinda thing. Just reply to this message and fill in the answers with your own. What is your (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.castle)  

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