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July 2007
Weekly Set Re-Review: Camouflaged Outpost
Ben E. 29 VII 07

Join the weekly Classic Castle set review discussion. Please post your opinions on the set play ability, piece selection, design, etc. Which sets stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!

This week’s set is 6066 Camouflaged Outpost.

Camouflaged Outpost, released in 1987, was the first Forestmen set. This tree and rock outpost opens in three ways including a secret door. The set has six men, treasure, and accessories.


Weekly Set Re-Review: King's Carriage
Ben E. 22 VII 07

Join the weekly Classic Castle set review discussion. Please post your opinions on the set play ability, piece selection, design, etc. Which sets stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!

This week’s set is 6044 King’s Carriage.

King’s Carriage, released in 1995, is for the Royal Knight’s King. The set includes two horses, the carriage, a king, three soldiers, a treasure chest, and accessories.


Brickshelf NOT Shutting Down
Bruce N. H. 20 VII 07

Things have changed once again. The following message appears on the front page of Brickshelf:

"Notice: Brickshelf will not be shutting down! We will be offering "featured" accounts for $5/month shortly. We have received hundreds of supportive emails in the past few days including many who said they would like to contribute financially but did not know how. This has had us rethink the practicality of charging for enhanced features. We plan to do this without reducing current functionality for free users. Thank you for your enormous show of support. IMPORTANT: do NOT try to download the entire site, it causes major problems, slows things down for normal users and you will be permanently blocked."

Kevin says more about this in this Lugnet post. Let's please respect Kevin's request and stop trying to download massive folders while we see how this shakes out, though I do still highly recommend that everyone maintain full backups of their own images (you should have been doing that anyway). Please discuss these further developments in this thread.


Brickshelf Shutting Down
Ben E. 17 VII 07

As many of you know, Brickshelf will be closing at the end of July 2007. Please take time to back up all of your photos to a computer. Try out the Brickshelf Backup Utility written by Bob Kojima. This handy tool will download and save all of your files in a short amount of time.

We are also saving folders of our favorite builders and fans who may not be active in the community at this time. Check out these efforts headed up by Bruce here.

A wide range of community leaders are discussing creating a centralized site to replace brickshelf. You can comment on maintaining one centralized site here.


Weekly Set Re-Review: Knight's Catapult
Ben E. 15 VII 07

Join the weekly Classic Castle set review discussion. Please post your opinions on the set play ability, piece selection, design, etc. Which sets stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!

This week’s set is 4816 Knight’s Catapult.

Knight’s Catapult, released in 2000, was the only siege weapon for King Leo's Knight's Kingdom. This mobile catapult comes with one knight, an archer, stone shot, and various accessories.


Village Joust
Bruce N. H. 11 VII 07

Dan Garcia, RuthleSs_PaLadin in our forum, is an AFOL from Las Vegas. As a kid he got hooked on the great castle and pirate sets of the late 80s/early 90s. Then around 2003, he picked up a Legend rerelease set and got hooked all over again. Finding castle MOCs on the net encouraged him to try his own hand at these, and the results can be found in his Brickshelf gallery or on his MOCpage.

His Village Joust started out to be a larger castle, but he decided by limiting himself to one baseplate he could include much more detail. He'd seen several other great joust scenes, but wanted to combine this with more elaborate structures. This MOC sits on a 48x48 footprint and uses between 2200 and 2500 elements.


Weekly Set Review: Vladek's Siege Engine
Ben E. 8 VII 07

Join the weekly Classic Castle set review discussion. Please post your opinions on the set play ability, piece selection, design, etc. Which sets stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!

This week’s set is 8800 Vladek's Siege Engine.

Vladek's Siege Engine was released in 2004 for Knight's Kingdom II. This siege tower has a swinging battering ram with a dragon head. The tower's drawbridge can be lower to scale castle walls. Vladek, a Shadow Knight, and various accessories are included.


Winter Home of the Happy Sunshine People
Bruce N. H. 5 VII 07

Attendees of BrickFest 2005, and those of us who checked out photos on-line, were amazed to see Steve DeCraemer's POV3, which won best in show. At BrickWorld 2007 he presented another masterwork, the Winter Home of the Happy Sunshine People. Unfortunately he doesn't have a Brickshelf, Flickr, or other gallery for this MOC, so you'll have to check it out in various other people's BrickWorld galleries. (BTW, photo credit for the above picture goes to Orion Pobursky. Thanks, Orion.)

Steve has been building since he came out of his dark ages 14 years ago. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he's starting up a new club, TwinLug. His own site is Cow in a Can.


Dragon
Bruce N. H. 2 VII 07

Bryce McGlone, new member "Cajun" in our forums, is an AFOL from Southern California. He's long been known for his mecha and giant monsters, often with very unique part usage, and he was a pioneer in using Bionicle elements. He has long admired Anthony's dragons and wanted to make a foray into more castle-y creatures. When he saw McFarlane's Dragons: Eternal Dragon, a paintable sculpture, he decided he needed to make a LEGO version. The result was his Dragon Forest Diorama, which was recently displayed at BrickWorld 2007.

In addition to membership in Lugnet, LUGOLA, and now CC, Byrce is the founder of Mecha Hub, the source for all your LEGO mecha needs. Bryce's creactions can be found in his Brickshelf gallery or on his personal site, Plasmic Bricks.



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