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April 2006
Weekly Set Review: Black Knight's Castle
Ben E. 29 IV 06

Join the Classic Castle alternate model discussion. Please post your opinions of the models' play ability, creativity, design, etc. Which models stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!

This week’s set is 6086 Black Knight's Castle.

Black Knight's Castle was released in 1992. This castle has a main gate tower with a drawbridge and portcullis. There are two diagonally symmetrical corner archer towers. One has a jail. The last corner is made of yellow "tudor" wall pieces and has a side entrance. Four mounted knights, four archers, two soldiers, one wolfpack prisoner, one ghost, and various accessories are included.


Weekly Set Review: Viking Boat Against the Wyvern Dragon
Ben E. 23 IV 06

Join the Classic Castle alternate model discussion. Please post your opinions of the models' play ability, creativity, design, etc. Which models stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!

This week’s set is 7016 Viking Boat Against the Wyvern Dragon.

Viking Boat Against the Wyvern Dragon was released in 2005. Two vikings armed with swords and round shields fight a small dragon. Their ship has a single mast, oars, a tiller, jewels, and various accessories.


Weekly Set Review: Fireball Catapult
Ben E. 16 IV 06

Join the Classic Castle alternate model discussion. Please post your opinions of the models' play ability, creativity, design, etc. Which models stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!

This week’s set is 8873 Fireball Catapult.

Fireball Catapult was released in 2005 for Knight's Kingdom II. The shadow knight launches his fireballs from the rubber band powered catapult. Sir Santis is mounted on horseback and fully armed to attack.


European Fig-Masters
Bruce N. H. 13 IV 06

Minifigs are the heart and soul of many LEGO creations, but it is always a challenge to create new and unique figs. Recently, Martin Jaspers of the Netherlands (marakoeschtra in our forums) and Jens Heyer (jens in our forums) and Michael Jasper, both of Germany, have posted some really inspiring minifig creations, including Martin's hunter, Jens' Nubian and Michael's Queen Elizabeth I. I asked each of them what inspired their minifig creations and here are their responses:

Martin: "I'm inspired by other minifig builders like Dunechaser and Michael Jasper, and also by the enormous diversity of (minifig)parts, which just asks to be combined in every possible way."

Jens: "The first inspiration to create some minifigs I got while watching the gallery from Jojo. That was a few days after I discovered, that there are other people like me in the Internet (autumn 2003). Since these days I regulary buy bricks at bricklink and watches allways sales. Every few weeks I create with the new bricks some Minifigs. The shown Figs were allready created, but with the Pics from marakoeschtra I kicked myself and has uploaded the pictures. Creating Minifigs is the easiest way to build a moc, if you are short of time."

Michael: "Hard to explain; I have never reflected upon this before. But I think there are two different ways of how my minifigs come into being: 1. A specific occasion (for instance the fig of Mozart was created in honor of his 250th birthday) or 2. just an idea: "This LEGO part is useable for/looks like/could represent ..." The Queen Elizabeth fig - as well as the whole scene - is owing (the beginning of) its being just to the idea that the Helmet Visor Underwater (BL part number x41) is useable to represent such a kind of collar.

Martin and Jens are both members of our forums. Martin is also a member of Lowlug and both Jens and Michael are members of 1000steine.de. Check out Martin's creations and discuss his figs in this thread. Check out Jens' creations and discuss his figs in this thread. Check out Michael's creations and discuss his figs in this thread.


Tower
Bruce N. H. 13 IV 06

One of our newest members, Hippotam, joins us from Cracow, Poland. Twenty years ago, he loved to build in the space theme. After a long dark age, he bought some Duplo sets for his son, and rekindled his love for LEGO building. Finding sites like Lugnet, Brickshelf, Lugpol, and Classic-Castle fanned that spark into a full flame. Even though as a kid he thought "castles were dull", now as an adult he says "It seems some of us have to grow up to really enjoy the castle theme." Even though he's only just come out of his dark ages, he's already building great things, as seen in his Tower. As he described the process: "First was the roof, then I needen something that goes under it. The octagonal shape of the tower was inspired by marakoeschtra's windmill, the rest was just a pure try-and-see-if-it-looks-ok process. At the end, I have added a crane so my three year old son could play with the set. This was kind of mistake - he got so into it that I had to wait till he's off to granma's just to be able to take some pictures of the tower." Check it out and then discuss it in our forums.

In addition to CC, Hippotam is a member of Lugpol, a Polish language LEGO site. Check out his Brickshelf gallery for his King's Summer Residence and any future MOCs.


Alternate Model Review: Blacksmith Shop
Ben E. 9 IV 06

Join the Classic Castle alternate model discussion. Please post your opinions of the models' play ability, creativity, design, etc. Which models stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!

This week’s set is 6040 Blacksmith Shop.

Blacksmith Shop was released in 1984 for the lion knights. The set has four alternate models on the box including a castle wall with a tower, a medieval restaurant and crenelated cart, a castle wall with a doorway and a peasant's cart, and a castle tower with brick buttresses on the corners. Instructions for this last model are included with the set.


Tower of Judgement
Bruce N. H. 6 IV 06

Tower of Judgement is Chad Ivany's (CAI in our forums) biggest MOC yet, and he's only just begun. He originally started out inspired to do something Tolkien-esque, but ended up with a castle of his own design. This tower has four levels, and could eventually be joined by three similar structures to make a complete castle. Notable details include the various relief statues, the willow tree, and those great windows. I even spy some space pieces put to castle use. Check out all of Chad's creations in his Brickshelf gallery.


The Second Castle Legends Poll
Ben E. 2 IV 06

The future of LEGO Castle Legends could be at stake if we do not give feedback to LEGO about the issue. In my role as a third round LEGO Ambassador, I will get your thoughts back to the company. Please fill out the poll and leave your feedback. Thank you.


Weekly Set Re-Review: Siege Tower
Ben E. 2 IV 06

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 6061 Siege Tower.

Siege Tower was released in 1984 for the Lion Knights. It included a modular hinged wall section, a rolling siege tower with a drawbridge, a ladder to scale the wall, a knight, an archer, and two foot soldiers.



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