LEGO SYSTEM Castle : 5758


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Subject:	Re: Massive Website Makeover and Update
Newsgroups:	lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw
Date:	Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:06:41 GMT
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Sava" <ajs0093@pop.tamu.edu> > To be painfully honest, the balista and catapult are straight out of lego. > The balista is a modified version of set 6012. The catapult is > unchanged out of set 6059. However the Trebuchet is all of my own design. > > I suppose I should go and build my own catapult, certainly i could make a > better model than this one, which has a range of 6 inches. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Anthony Sava" <ajs0093@pop.tamu.edu> > > > http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html Ah. Sorry about that. I am a castle fan, but both of those sets happened during my dark age, so I had never seen them before. I didn't realize that Lego had made a catapult with a counterweight. All of the current ones that I've seen have just a lever that you can "slam" on to make it work. Thanks for clearing that up. ( Now that I'm embarrassed... ) I *do* still like your trebuchet though, and I will probably use it as a basis when I go to build my own. -Andy Lynch

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		Re: Massive Website Makeover and Update
(...) Don't be, the catapult wasn't the main feature of its set, and I didn't know about the balista being a set until 3 years after my friend Pat built one for me. (...) Thank you much, I really enjoyed building and testing it. It's a fun weapon. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw)

		Re: Massive Website Makeover and Update
(...) If you want to get an idea of what LEGO has done in castle before, take some time and search the Lugnet/Pause Database for "Castle" it'll take a bit of time to load but should return all the different known sets... errrmmm actually for the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)

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		Re: Massive Website Makeover and Update
(...) To be painfully honest, the balista and catapult are straight out of lego. The balista is a modified version of set 6012. The catapult is unchanged out of set 6059. However the Trebuchet is all of my own design. I suppose I should go and build (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw)

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