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April 2007
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Weekly Set Review: 5138 Castle Equipment
Ben E. 29 I 07
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 5138 Castle Equipment.
5138 Castle Equipment was released in 1994.
It contains various accessories for the Wolfpack, Black Knights, and Dragon Masters.
This pack is very similar to
5059 Castle Equipment which was released in 1993.
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LEGO Castle Contest Reminders
Ben E. 29 I 07
The LEGO Castle contest will be ending Monday April 30th, 2007 at 11:59 PM US Eastern Time.
Keep these things in mind when submitting your entries:
Links - Double check links to your creations.
If we can not see your entry, it will be hard to grade it.
Image Size - The maximum image size is 800x600 pixels.
Many entries will not be approved because they have giant images.
Use image editing software or an online site to reduce your image size.
Number of Images - Do not place more than 3 images in a folder for the judges to grade.
We need an equal number of images in every folder to grade fairly and quickly.
Category Rules - A few entries do not follow specific categories rules.
One important rule for each category is to have two opposing factions.
If your entry does not meet the category requirements, it will recieve a lower grade during the judging.
If you have any questions about the rules or your entry, please post them in
this thread.
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Weekly Set Re-Review: Dark Dragon's Den
Ben E. 22 I 07
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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 6076 Dark Dragon’s Den.
Dark Dragon’s Den, released in 1993, is a rock fortress for the Dragon Masters.
The set features a large cage for the dragon, Majisto the Wizard, two knights, a soldier, and accessories.
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Weekly Set Review: Rogue Knight Battleship
Ben E. 15 IV 07
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Which sets stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!
This week’s set is 8821 Rogue Knight Battleship.
Rogue Knight Battleship was released in 2006 for Knight's Kingdom II.
Drascus and a rogue knight man their dragon sail ship for invasion.
Kentis guards his tower dock with a catapult.
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Cinderella story
Bruce N. H. 13 IV 07
Barbara Werth is an AFOL originally from Germany but now living in the Netherlands.
She came out of her dark ages in 1999 when she got a Gungan Sub.
Rummaging through the bricks brought back the old feeling and drew her back to LEGO.
She really started MOCing when she couldn't get tickets to a concert, so she decided to
build a LEGO version.
Recently she bought a Playmobile set that depicted four scenes from the Cinderella story (Brothers Grimm version).
This inspired her LEGO rendition.
Moving around the four quadrants of this MOC you see Cinderella's kitchen, her mother's grave, the royal ball,
and the iconic scene of losing her slipper.
In addition to this MOC, all of her creations can be found on her site
Steinarbeit or in her
Brickshelf gallery.
Barbara is a member of Lowlug,
1000Steine.de and Lugnet.
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Weekly Set Re-Review: [Black Knight's Guardshack]
Ben E. 9 IV 07
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Which sets stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!
This week’s set is 1888 [Black Knight's Guardshack].
Black Knight's Guardshack was released in 1992 as part of Variety Pack 1891.
This guard shack includes a Black Knight soldier, a ghost, and various accessories.
The variety pack was only sold in North America.
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The Forces of Isengard
Bruce N. H. 4 IV 07
Philip Heinrich has been playing with LEGO since he was a child.
After watching stop-motion claymation films he realized he could do the same thing with LEGO.
He says "I then lived under the illusion that I was the only one clever enough to think of such a think for several years before LEGO Studios came out and an online community developed."
Most of his LEGO building is actually for his brickfilms.
Philip has also had a long interest in 3D graphics,
and he's used LDraw to create such scenes as
White Witch's Castle,
which won the LDraw.org Scene of the Month in January 2006.
Philip has combined his graphics skills with his brickfilming in the creation of a short film,
The Two Towers: Tens of Thousands.
A scene from this film,
The Forces of Isengard,
won LDraw.org's Scene of the Month in February 2007.
He wrote an extensive article about how this scene was constructed.
Philip's films and other art can be found on his website,
Smeagol Studios.
He is a member of brickfilms.com and LDraw.org, as well as Lugnet.
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