Five foot tall fantasy style castle

fosterbengoshi · Post by **fosterbengoshi** » Sun May 16, 2004 2:58 am

In reply to Sirs Smittance and Terrance, the blue guy doesn't seem to exist anymore. I looked for him tonight, but (not surprisingly) it seems he has been recylced into something else. My girls have been playing with these minifigs and interchanging parts and accessories. So whatever he once was is now no longer recognizable. He did have a strange helmet it seems after studying my pictures more closely. Reminds me of the helmet Rick Moranis wore in that Mel Brooks Star Wars spoof movie (forgot the name).

Teh Stud · Post by **Teh Stud** » Sun May 16, 2004 6:30 am

fosterbengoshi wrote:In reply to Sirs Smittance and Terrance, the blue guy doesn't seem to exist anymore. I looked for him tonight, but (not surprisingly) it seems he has been recylced into something else. My girls have been playing with these minifigs and interchanging parts and accessories. So whatever he once was is now no longer recognizable. He did have a strange helmet it seems after studying my pictures more closely. Reminds me of the helmet Rick Moranis wore in that Mel Brooks Star Wars spoof movie (forgot the name).

I'm pretty sure that the helmet he was wearing was one of the divers helmets:

Sir Terrance · Post by **Sir Terrance** » Sun May 16, 2004 10:22 pm

Yes, the one on the horse is the fig I was talking about. I looks like a KK2 helm, but it can't be, or can it

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Rubberchickenknight · Post by **Rubberchickenknight** » Mon May 17, 2004 7:03 am

In reply to Sirs Smittance and Terrance, the blue guy doesn't seem to exist anymore. I looked for him tonight, but (not surprisingly) it seems he has been recylced into something else. My girls have been playing with these minifigs and interchanging parts and accessories. So whatever he once was is now no longer recognizable. He did have a strange helmet it seems after studying my pictures more closely. Reminds me of the helmet Rick Moranis wore in that Mel Brooks Star Wars spoof movie (forgot the name).

You mean Spaceballs

Post by **Bruce N H** » Mon May 17, 2004 8:08 pm

Foster,

This is a really amazing castle. Yes, the girly colors are a bit jarring, but it was for little girls in the first place. It does look a little Neuschwanstein-esque. The whole thing is great, but my favorite details are:
--the landscaping, especially around the dock area
--the tiled floors, especially in that big red and white courtyard
--the places on the outer walls where you have light blue sections set back a stud behind white arches (this pic: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=757089 ) That just looks really striking to me.

Heresy alert - I actually like the use of clone blocks in the landscaping--the variety of greens gives it a more natural look than having all one shade.

Bruce

Chancellor Erik · Post by **Chancellor Erik** » Mon May 17, 2004 11:33 pm

Must...kill...megabloks :evil: !!!

The Blue Knight · Post by **The Blue Knight** » Tue May 18, 2004 7:30 am

WOW! The scale is stunning. You have two lucky little girls. Don't get rattled by the anti-MB rhetoric here foster. Don't ever let your imagination be stymied. You can always go back and Lego back-engineer later. Great work.

forester3291 · Post by **forester3291** » Tue May 18, 2004 2:05 pm

This is great. And as Bruce said about the pink colors...well,it was built for s. Some of you really jumped on the fact that he used MB. But hey it looks great. The only thing that gets me is that timmy. Timmy is evil.

fosterbengoshi · Post by **fosterbengoshi** » Wed May 19, 2004 4:38 pm

Thanks Bruce. Those details took a lot of planning and trial and error. BTW, at the bottom of the picture you linked there is a small sea cave in the landscaping. Can't see it too well in that link. Here's a better one http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=757083

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Five foot tall fantasy style castle

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