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by sidewinderl
Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:38 am
Forum: Medieval Life
Topic: How come...
Replies: 39
Views: 14831

Re: How come...

... that all the Americans here have such an interest in the European Middle Ages? As there is no sign of knights or any castles in your lands , how did you became a castle fan? I'd like to know what attracted everyone to this castle theme. I'm sure we'll hear a lot of different reasons, so it's gr...
by sidewinderl
Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:26 am
Forum: LEGO Castle Sets
Topic: Castle Team: The New Role of Fan Feedback
Replies: 25
Views: 12944

You should've suggested that they sell generic soldier minifigs by the garbage sack full! :P That first knight (the one beside the wizard)...that's the one from the Skeleton Tower, right? Is that knight going to find its way to other sets? The visor knight seems to be pretty heavily used, which is f...
by sidewinderl
Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:49 am
Forum: Buy, Sell, Trade
Topic: Buy 2 get 1 free at TRU
Replies: 20
Views: 2895

Sounds believable considering their similar deal for video games right now and the fact that they overcharge lego sets. The Crossbow Attack set is a full $2 more from toysrus.com than from lego.com. Same goes for base plates...not much of a savings unless you wanna buy the big sets.
by sidewinderl
Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:24 am
Forum: Buy, Sell, Trade
Topic: BrickForge Animals Now Available
Replies: 43
Views: 15817

I could definitely see Lego pursuing a deal with brickforge to bring these to the Lego "canon"....much like how they market fan created sets like the blacksmith shop. Everybody would win. I would love to see that, but I don't think that it is realistically a possibility. Brickforge must c...
by sidewinderl
Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:39 pm
Forum: Buy, Sell, Trade
Topic: Fake Lego on Ebay
Replies: 20
Views: 3442

well a good rule of thumb is NEVER buy stuff from China xD
by sidewinderl
Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:57 am
Forum: Buy, Sell, Trade
Topic: Fake Lego on Ebay
Replies: 20
Views: 3442

On ebay, I search " lego (castle, knight) " ....if you notice on those chinese knockoffs, the word lego never shows up (which is why I have never seen those knock-offs on ebay before). So you can protect yourself a little by making sure "lego" is in your search...which you'd thin...
by sidewinderl
Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:45 am
Forum: Buy, Sell, Trade
Topic: BrickForge Animals Now Available
Replies: 43
Views: 15817

I'm a Lego purist (HATE mega bloks with a passion), and collecting kickass customs like this wouldn't change that. In the case of these farm animals, I could definitely see Lego pursuing a deal with brickforge to bring these to the Lego "canon"....much like how they market fan created sets...
by sidewinderl
Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:02 am
Forum: General LEGO
Topic: Are you guilty of LEGO injustice?
Replies: 68
Views: 11249

I hate MB's with a passion....I once recieved a MB set as a gift (from a well-intentioned parent who basically thought "a brick's a brick"), and in fairness, I put the set together to see if it was any good. It was horrible. The bricks were badly off-color and fit very poorly, and there we...
by sidewinderl
Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:37 am
Forum: General LEGO
Topic: Your LEGO Room
Replies: 42
Views: 8323

I have a small walk-in closet that i throw everything in....sets get crammed onto shelves and everything else goes into tubs. The thing I hate about leaving lego sets out in the open, is the amount of dust they collect (just look at the biplane in the first pic)...so I tacked a cloth "curtain&q...
by sidewinderl
Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:19 am
Forum: LEGO Castle Sets
Topic: Theme Review: Fright Knights
Replies: 35
Views: 10038

I wasn't aware that FK wasn't well liked...FK's are one of my favorite factions. I think the bat helm is badass...reminds me of the one Mordred wears in Merlin, for example. Don't see a pic offhand, but a random vid (around 2:30 is my favorite shot of it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PkQaHcfeNU ...
by sidewinderl
Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:39 am
Forum: LEGO Castle Sets
Topic: New Castle Sets
Replies: 58
Views: 13408

I just got the new castle (didn't know there was a new series out, because I have several hobbies and lego got shoved to the back of the list) and I'm very pleased with it. I hated KK2 (loved KK1 though) because of all the eyebleed inducing giant -duplo- prefab pieces and power ranger knights. I don...