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Biggest issue I see with clone brands is poor quality. I got a few in a moment of weakness for my kids and even in the same set the colors were off and some of the parts under more stress fractured rather easily. I think Megablocks is better than other lego-likes but suffers from some issues such as...

I loved this set. The figures were by far one of the major draws but the mountain setting I loved as it had a massive cave/pit for the dragon to live in and upper areas for the men there. I did redo the tower some to make it a bit larger and I added a barbican. Pretty neat complex after that. Until ...

Perhaps. The numbers for this battle are not so simple. Most of the really high, 50% plus numbers are from sources highly critical of the ruler at the time. Considering the Empire was in a civil war much of the 11th century this could easily be seen as propaganda to show just how pathetic the man wa...

Not sure about some of your points. Spain was not a kingdom until near the end of the medieval period when Ferdinanrd and Isabel get married. I agree it was a major cultural center though and vital to various developments but this does not put England behind in a lesser place because they develop di...

RAT is the place for Roman Historical stuff online. http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat.html?func=view&catid=20&id=135891&view=entrypage I'd add only a little, better to overbuild than under. Be aware that in some places having such items is actually illegal. I have lived in many states and...

cool project. we built a small one in 1998. It was rather neat and could shoot tennis balls two hundred plus feet. have you seen this? http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=video&cd=5&ved=0CEoQtwIwBA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3...

Tria, Are you saying people had more rights in the Roman and Greek classical era? If so, I think you may have something wrong. both groups had slavery as a major part of their civilization, up to 1/4 or 1/3 in Rome's greatest use of them. During the medieval period the end of slavery in Europe (at l...

Yes the Byzantine Empire was for much of the period amazing. Even after the mid 12th century when things are not going so well they are amazing at moving forward. Have to give it to them for lasting as long as they did in such a hostile place, 1453 is a long haul. The Komenus family had a great run ...

Yeah video games love that set up. In the real world that is not how they were used most often. Any one who likes should look up De Re Militari by Vegetius. He includes a great deal of this. If you do not like manuals on military activity Anne Komnena's Alexiad includes formation information for mos...

Selling these at our Walmart now. Got three sets and so far really liking the design and some of the figures are awesome. My kids have not put them down all day. My Son did think the eyes on Shelob attack Frodo were odd. I thought he was supposed to look asleep. Think for army builders the Uruk-Hai ...

Very cool set. Just saw it in person and have to say this thing built up is bigger than I thought it would be. I mostly just build and such for my son now but he sure had a ball playing with it, and I have to admit it had some cool features. Why didn't TLC do these instead of the ninja line or KK wh...

So far Target and TRU has them online as well.

Selling out fast though. Within a day or so 50% of the LotR lego on the Target website were sold out.

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Yeah I just saw this. What an odd and of course dishonest system. I worked at TRU and these corp. stores spend a great deal of time on loss prevention. You'd think these gents, being as smart as they are would know corporations double check their incoming and outgoing costs to products. Sad in all a...

Just like many places Poland waxes and wanes.

Up till early 14th not doing so well often but when merged with Lithuania later the century, talk about a game changer.

My local TRU in Layton has them all. At least did. They sold out last batch rather fast.

Target is still looking like a few more weeks

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