Castle 2007 Consolodation thread

Spongey · Post by **Spongey** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:01 pm

This set was discussed briefly over on the Eurobricks Pirate Forum (with that kind of name, for obvious reasons) and the consensus seems to be that it's a Viking set. Although, you never know...

ericgizmo · Post by **ericgizmo** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:14 am

i cant wait till castle comes out

ottoatm · Post by **ottoatm** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:42 pm

In a bit of annoyance, I found that for some reason the picture doesn't show on my computer right now... I'll have to go back tomorrow and see if I can find it.

That said, I did notice one really nice line...

"This product will be in stock on Wednesday 01 August, 2007."

zac_schmitt · Post by **zac_schmitt** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:09 pm

anyone happen to have the photo of the "skeleton ship" on their computers or on some other source? the picture won't show for me, either, and i'm dying to see what it looks like.

wunztwice · Post by **wunztwice** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:57 pm

Hmm, that is odd. I also thought that the viking line was supposed to be done with the last series of sets...

It would make since, though, if it were to be some sort of a "crossover" set. Skeletons (ie new castle line) but as a ship and listed under vikings. Makes a good transition, yeah?

But as to the reality of this set...I'm not sure. (do any of our illustrious ambasadors have info they can share?)

sam89 · Post by **sam89** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:09 pm

For those looking for pics, there are none at the moment. And I'm pretty sure this set has nothing to do with Vikings. That site has several sets listed in the wrong categories.

Tekbot · Post by **Tekbot** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:59 pm

It's now official. I will lay my hands on at least one of each new Castle set. The only one I'm a bit concered about is 7093, the Skeleton Tower.

I like the clean look on the new Castle sets, but 7093 isn't that cool if you ask me. But hey, I'm 28, not 8. And I guess there were more of the latter group in the Castle focus group.

Emperor James · Post by **Emperor James** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:56 am

The new big castle look awesome. The rest look okay. What really looks good about the new sets are the figs, and accesories- they finally perfected the fully armored mounted knight, and everything looks great. I just wish there were more regular figs, the skeletons are okay I guess but I prefer regular guys.

Knight David · Post by **Knight David** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:20 pm

my favourte set would have to be the joust. Anyone how to see that ship???

David

Count Blacktron · Post by **Count Blacktron** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:53 pm

Knight David wrote:my favourte set would have to be the joust. Anyone how to see that ship???

David

No photos yet from TLC means it's probably against policy to leak pics yet. I am hoping it is a Castle boat, of some type, with traditional cloth sails and perhaps a few (4-6) oars. An update to this weeks Sea Serpent in the weekly reviews would be nice. Unfortunately being a Skeleton Ship Attack in name, it means we'll probably get a haunted pirate-ish evil boat.

Emp.Justinian · Post by **Emp.Justinian** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:18 pm

Don't mean to be a party-pooper but I think that the ship probably is a Viking craft. In Norse mythology a "ship of fingernails" will arrive at ragnorock carrying Loki and his army of dead. This is probably the Lego version of the ship of fingernails. Alas Lego doesn't seam to be that interested in medieval ships.

God speed

Emp.Justinian

Old_School_Fan · Post by **Old_School_Fan** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:26 pm

I really don't believe this ship set even exists. Its only on one site, and without a picture? Too suspicious to me.

On the other hand, I might be falling for false hope in a different fashion, as Wikipedia now lists Castle 2007 as coming out in June. Keep in mind that Wikipedia is based on viewer imput, and not always fact.

Baned · Post by **Baned** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:08 pm

Emp.Justinian wrote:Don't mean to be a party-pooper but I think that the ship probably is a Viking craft. In Norse mythology a "ship of fingernails" will arrive at ragnorock carrying Loki and his army of dead. This is probably the Lego version of the ship of fingernails. Alas Lego doesn't seam to be that interested in medieval ships.

God speed

Emp.Justinian

That would be amazing. I love Norse mythology, and Lego doing not just the creatures of the myths, but now one of the gods? This is all kinds of awesome. Though I don't want to get my hopes up quite yet.

And to whoever said they hope this ship is a recreation of the Sea Serpent, words escape me. (in a positive manner)

zac_schmitt · Post by **zac_schmitt** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:59 pm

even if the ship was part of the vikings line, i think it has enormous crossover potential (not to mention how cool it being "based" on the afforementioned ship of fingernails and including a "god" figure would be - so cool, in fact, that i'm skeptical simply because of how great it would be). has there ever been another line so utterly compatible with castle? granted, vikings might not make a lot of historical sense depending on what "age" your own mocs and themes are based on (or are direct recreations of), but, overall, especially from a fantastical and more general point of view, vikings fit perfectly with any castle line, almost as part of castle itself, only a different faction. heck, when i was a kid i had no qualms about pirates visiting my castles.

the viking ships, moreover, are perfectly made for what they are (the big ship was always just a little too big and outlandish for my tastes, but it's still well done, and the smaller ship is absolutely perfect), and so i would welcome any viking ship with open arms, perhaps even more enthsuiastically than i would a straight castle ship (although the last ship lego released, dracus's clipper type ship, was quite cool)

Emp.Justinian · Post by **Emp.Justinian** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:00 pm

At first I thought that it would be much better to have a lego castle ship than a viking ship of fingernails, but now that the possibilities have been pointed out...

God speed

Emp.Justinian