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Sungnyemun Gate
Bruce 14 V 12
During the medieval era, Seoul South Korea was a walled city. The Sungnyemun (Gate of Exalted Ceremonies), built in the fourteenth century, was one of the three major gateways into the city. Until the pagoda roof section atop the gate was destroyed by fire four years ago, it was the oldest wooden structure in Seoul. It is currently under reconstruction and set to reopen at the end of this year. The Sungnyemun holds pride of place as the first official National Treasure of South Korea. It is sometimes called the Namdaemun (Great Southern Gate), though some dislike the use of that name since it was associated with the Japanese occupation.
Amida is a Korean AFOL whose work can be found on his own site, as well as on Flickr and two different Brickshelf galleries. He built this Sungnyemun Gate as part of a display at the recent LEGO World Tower event, that set a record for the world's tallest LEGO structure.
Edit - In a nice coincidence of timing, just after posting this to the front page I saw the announcement that LEGO will be releasing a microscale version of Sungnyemun as the next structure in the LEGO Architecture line.
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Lands of Classic-Castle
Bruce 3 V 12
If you've visited the forum in the last several weeks, you've surely noticed an amazing new development. Several forum members started up a group project called the Lands of Classic-Castle, or LCC for short. The LCC project is a group-created world. You are invited to join one of four factions, each of which has their own characteristic terrains, populations and resources. You can also join a guild and complete challenges to increase your rank as a hero, mason, merchant or mage. Challenges have been put in place to encourage your building, such as the character introduction, the royal feast. All of the LCC discussion is taking place in the Stories forum, though most people are also posting their MOCs in the Castle MOCs forum. Join the fun today and help build up the world!
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Weekly Set Review: Snow White’s Cottage
Ben E. 1 IV 12
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 6152 Snow White’s Cottage.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?
Snow White’s Cottage was released in 2012 for the Duplo Disney Princess line.
Snow White cleans the dwarf's cottage with the help of her animal friends. She must avoid the bowl of red apples to prevent the evil queen's sleeping death.
Various elements are included such as a printed bird brick, bunny, chairs, flowers, and a fence.
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Colossal Castle Contest IX: Master Builder
CC Contest Team 28 III 12
The Master Builder prize is be awarded to the builder who entered 6 or more categories
and had the highest score when their top six creation scores are averaged.
We are proud to announce the 2012 Classic-Castle.com Master Builder: Blake Baer (Blego7).
Check out his submissions here.
The final scores were very close. Please also congratulate the runners up:
Mark of Falworth and
Shmails.
You may be wondering what prize will be awarded.
Our Master Builder receives a new copy of 7189 Village Mill Raid!
Blake Baer is also granted the title of Classic-Castle Master Builder until the conclusion of CCC X.
Discuss the Winner's here.
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LEGO Dragons winners
Bruce 9 III 12
The LEGO Dragons Contest over on Flickr has come to a close and the
winners have been announced.
Stormbringer brought in first prize with the Order of Palladio.
Check the winners announcement to see all of the runners up and special category winners,
and indeed check out all of the entries, as this contest inspired a lot of great building.
Congratulations to the winners and all of the participants, and thank you to Siercon and Coral for starting this great contest.
I hope it becomes a yearly tradition.
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Colossal Castle Contest IX - Winning Entries!
CC Contest Team 20 II 12
Congratulations to all of the winners in the Colossal Castle Contest IX!
Thank you to all entrants for your wonderful creations built for the CCC.
These creations inspire us and the entire castle community every year!
Many of the scores were very close so we provided an Honorable Mention for the top five entries in each category that did not win.
Please contact Ben Ellermann by private message or email if you won a category so we can ship out the prizes!
The Master Builder prize will be announced in a few days.
Discuss the Winner's here.
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