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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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In lugnet.castle, Stephen Wroble writes:
> This was a good idea Lenny.
Yup.
> 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.)
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.
> AND TLC should stop the whole "good guy, bad guy" thing and let us decide who
> is who.
Agreed. I think Lego® inspires a lot of creativity building-wise, but the
trend to promote sets through predesigned storylines restricts the true
freedom of creativity in play and storytelling. Those of us who collected
in the 1980's have been known to develop entire worlds and stories (as
indicated by one of the other questions on this quiz). It is nice to see
how each of us interpreted the BF or Crusaders or whoever differently in our
stories. If we all started with preset good and bad, we all would have
ended up with similar stories. I prefer it when it is more open to variety.
(Limitless Possibilities, the old marketing phrase, was not just about
building.)
-Hendo, who is reading this thread backwards for some reason...
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In lugnet.castle, John P. Henderson writes:
> 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.
Any true scholar can testify that at one time, castles did in fact have walls.
They were 5 studs wide and 5 bricks high and had a window cut in them. They
were either black or grey and some of them had rocks painted on them.
Before that, they were made out of plain bricks, and were yellow for some
reason.
Stephen
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There is even evidence that some black walls had dragon's painted on them
and some possibly had pillars painted on them as well. There is some
controversy over this however. The early yellow walls were actually early
grey walls that were left out in the sun too long and faded. They were left
out in the sun because it takes forever to build something out of actual
bricks. Some historians believe that this is the reason that the larger
grey walls were used in later castles.
Josh :)
In lugnet.castle, Stephen Wroble writes:
> In lugnet.castle, John P. Henderson writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Any true scholar can testify that at one time, castles did in fact have walls.
> They were 5 studs wide and 5 bricks high and had a window cut in them. They
> were either black or grey and some of them had rocks painted on them.
>
> Before that, they were made out of plain bricks, and were yellow for some
> reason.
>
> Stephen
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