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Misty shrine - Nocturnus embassy
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Our fellow AFOLs over on Eurobricks have a very interesting collaborative project, the Guilds of Historica. In brief, they have a mythical world divided into four regions, each of which has different inhabitants, geography and character. Forum members are associated with each land, and they are building MOCs to fill in the spaces of their world. The most recent building challenge is to make an embassy from your land to one of the other three lands. The Mystic Isles are a sacred region in the middle of the kingdom of Avalonia, and this is where Lisqr has decided to place an embassy from the Nocturnus, a decidedly darker people. In addition to simply being part of the Historica project, Lisqr said his MOC was inspired by some concept art that accompanied the description of the Mystic Isles. Lisqr's MOCs can be found on Brickshelf, Flickr and MOCpages.
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LEGO Dragons Contest
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Forum members Siercon and Coral are hosting a LEGO Dragons Contest over in the Flickr LEGO Dragons group. Check the rules and enter your MOC over there on Flickr - you've got a little over a month, so get building. Also be sure to post your creations in our forum, as I'm sure we'd all love to see them as well.
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Lord of the Rings figs
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We've already seen a few of these in teaser posters, but now we get to see the nine walkers who set forth from Rivendell with the Ring. This poster showing figures from the upcoming Tolkien sets was on display at the London Toy Fair. Credit for the photo goes to the blogger at Blogomatic3000, and credit for bringing it to our attention goes to forum member Dyntar. Do you love these new figs? Do you hate them? Share your thoughts in the forum.
Update! Huw Millington of Brickset was at Toy Fair, and, while he was not allowed to take photos inside the booth, he was allowed to take extensive notes. His report gives a list of all of the sets from the first wave (arriving in August) with his descriptions.
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Trojan Rabbit
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Dave and Johnny Xandegar are a father and son team of builders known collectively as briXwerX. This past fall, they were inspired by the Pythonscape display at BrickCon, and they wanted to build something of their own. The result was the famous Trojan Rabbit.
Dave and Johnny are in northern Illinois, where they are members of KLUG. They're extremely active both within the LEGO community and in the broader public eye, with ongoing exhibits at libraries and other locations, and also hosting Creativity Labs to inspire young builders. You can follow up on all of their news and learn more about them at the briXwerX Studio. Or just see photos of their prolific creations on Flickr and Brickshelf.
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Lord of the Rings official license
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Wow, this one took me by surprise this morning. After years of saying it would never happen, LEGO announced today that they will release a Tolkien-based line. Apparently these are tied to the films, not the books, since the license is through Warner Brothers. Sets will be released over "multi" years, and will cover both the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit movies. LEGO already has a placeholder website, but there's no content except for the image and 'coming, summer 2012'. Discuss this new development in the forum.
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Colossal Castle Contest IX
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The CC Team is proud to announce our ninth annual building contest: The Colossal Castle Contest IX.
It will begin on November 1st and end on December 31st, 2011.
This contest is a bit different than other contests.
We have a variety of categories each with one prize for the winner.
Some categories require small creations and others need larger ones.
Everyone, even with a limited supply of bricks, should be able to enter several categories.
We are looking for creativity, not who has the most LEGO.
Check out the prizes.
Seven Classic Castle sets including the popular Wolfpack Renegades, Black Monarch's Ghost, Twin-Arm Launcher, and Kings Castle are prizes.
There are are also hard to find misb sets, custom medieval weapons, and new castle sets.
It truly is colossal!
Thank you to Rich Stehnach "Blackrock", Josh Wedin, BrickArms, BrickForge, BrickWarriors, The Brothers Brick, and the LEGO Company for donating prizes.
The updated rules can be found here. Enjoy!
Drive the admins crazy with silly contest questions here.
Update 17 XI 11 - The "submit an entry" and "view entries" pages are now operational. Thank you to our very helpful programmer!
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Forums are Back
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The Classic-Castle.com forum was down this weekend.
We appreciate your patience these past few days as the admins worked to restore our forum.
Do not forget to work on your entries for the Micro Castle Contest VII!
The deadline for entries ends in a week.
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Experiment 521KD
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A group of necromancers gathered to raise up an unstoppable army of the undead.
But something went horribly wrong.
The undead rose up against their masters and slaughtered them, and then went forth to conquer any who would oppose them.
That's the story behind Areetsa's Experiment 521KD.
The warrior himself is based on Areetsa's previous Kleinpanzer hardsuit, but here reworked into a fantasy castle setting.
Areetsa hails from New Zealand, where he is active in the TFOL Private Club Official Forums and his creations can be found on his
MOCpage.
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Set 10223: Kingdoms Joust
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I'll put the Last March of the Ents back in a couple of days, but this news is too good to let wait.
Feast your eyes on set 10223: Kingdoms Joust, unveiled today at BrickCon and around the world on line. It looks like this will run US$119 and will include 9 figs, including a new Black Falcon armored knight.
I'm sure those in Seattle tonight will have lots of details to share with us when they get back to the forum. -Quick revision-
It was pointed out in the forum thread
that the image above seems to be a combination of two sets (from the official description).
Hopefully more information will be forthcoming soon about the details.
-Quick revision #2-
Josh was at the unveiling and said the picture above is supposed to be one set.
He will try to find out more.
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