Castle series based on Warhammer?

leaf_of_lire · Post by **leaf_of_lire** » Fri May 18, 2007 8:23 pm

I don't even know what "Warhammer" is. But the way people are saying it I guess "whats the purpose of it"?

Shadowviking · Post by **Shadowviking** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:02 pm

leaf_of_lire wrote:I don't even know what "Warhammer" is. But the way people are saying it I guess "whats the purpose of it"?

Click the link in the first post.

Lawkeeper · Post by **Lawkeeper** » Sat May 19, 2007 3:28 am

LEGOFREAK wrote:wow! great stuff!
I had seen the steam tank quite awhile ago too, but didn't realize that this is where it was from. I wasn't reading any WH books at that time.

nothing to stop a team project from working on it here you know. (and it looks like the imperials are going along pretty well)

I´ll try to do some LegoHammer figs

this weekend. I'll try to have them on Brickshelf by Monday. But I build very quick, so that'll probably be an army of new figs..

LEGOFREAK · Post by **LEGOFREAK** » Sat May 19, 2007 4:22 pm

LegoHammer.. I like that. I like that a Lot..

I am again away from my collection til the end of the month, but I would like to try my hand at some custom Chaos forces. I can design em over here, and print them over there.

yeah that's it... that's the ticket!

Zacku · Post by **Zacku** » Sat May 19, 2007 4:29 pm

I'd much prefer a LEGO theme based on Warhammer 40k. =P

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat May 19, 2007 9:43 pm

Or how about A Song of Ice and Fire LEGO? Or Lord of the Rings LEGO? Or Conan LEGO? Bran Mak Morn? Kull? Solomon Kane? Dragonlance? Forgotten Realms? Basic D&D? The Black Company? Eberron? Thundercats? He-Man? Druss? Wheel of Time? Stones of Power?

The list is virtually infinite of random licenses that could be tossed out as potential LEGO sets. But, and I mean no offense here - all that amounts to is pipe-dreams. You could name any license you happen to like and say "LEGO should make this" but in the end, it's a bad idea. Firstly, licenses are expensive. LEGO is far better off, financially, with in-house themes rather than borrowed ones that they have to pay for. Likewise, in-house themes allow the company to do what they want and produce what they think will sell, rather than appealing, with a license, to a very specific market.

Look at Avatar. What did that get -- two sets? And how well did they sell? I certainly don't own either set. Warhammer sets might offer some cool new pieces, but nothing that LEGO couldn't produce for any number of in-house themes. There's really just no reason for LEGO to invest in such an idea.

TLG would be far better served by creating a generic 'fantasy' theme that they could do whatever they want with, and not have to pay a license fee or royalties to use. The advantage of a generic fantasy theme would be that LEGO could borrow ideas from all across the board rather than having sets designed around one core design pattern that might not appeal to even half of its target audience.

No more licenses.

Emp.Justinian · Post by **Emp.Justinian** » Sat May 19, 2007 10:57 pm

I think that while specifically licensing warhammer would be a bad idea the consept isn't altogether wrong. What I think would be good would be if lego came out with a fantasy series that had some sort of official lego gaming rules. You could buy packages much as you do in warhammer and then build armies. TLG could have several factions desined for war gamming but without the tidious mucking about with lisences.

God's speed

Emp.Justinian

LEGOFREAK · Post by **LEGOFREAK** » Sun May 20, 2007 12:50 am

Damien wrote:The list is virtually infinite of random licenses that could be tossed out as potential LEGO sets. But, and I mean no offense here - all that amounts to is pipe-dreams. You could name any license you happen to like and say "LEGO should make this" but in the end, it's a bad idea.

I thought that'd been established already?

yeah.. real bad idea. limits the creativity - and it should only be a pipe dream.

(hehe, I'd also LOVE a Song of Ice and Fire theme too though)

DARKspawn · Post by **DARKspawn** » Sun May 20, 2007 2:14 am

Emp.Justinian wrote:I think that while specifically licensing warhammer would be a bad idea the consept isn't altogether wrong. What I think would be good would be if lego came out with a fantasy series that had some sort of official lego gaming rules. You could buy packages much as you do in warhammer and then build armies. TLG could have several factions desined for war gamming but without the tidious mucking about with lisences.

God's speed

Emp.Justinian

This is what I was hinting at in my post, a little awkwardly

g2 · Post by g2 » Mon May 21, 2007 12:44 am

LEGOFREAK wrote: …nothing to stop a team project from working on it here you know. (and it looks like the imperials are going along pretty well)

I am all up for a team project. I can add more of my imperial army on my Brickshelf folder very soon.

Damien wrote:… - all that amounts to is pipe-dreams.

Not pipe-dreams. Just dreams. And from dreams come creations. And there is nothing wrong with that.

Damien wrote:TLG would be far better served by creating a generic 'fantasy' theme that they could do whatever they want with, and not have to pay a license fee or royalties to use.

I would up for a generic fantasy theme. I think you may be onto a winner here.

Sir Kohran · Post by **Sir Kohran** » Mon May 21, 2007 6:29 am

The list is virtually infinite of random licenses that could be tossed out as potential LEGO sets. But, and I mean no offense here - all that amounts to is pipe-dreams.

I would agree with this. The endless 'How about this theme?' 'Good idea!' topics do get a bit tiring, especially when we all know it won't happen.

I would up for a generic fantasy theme. I think you may be onto a winner here.

Isn't Castle 07 a 'generic' fantasy line?

- Matt

Lawkeeper · Post by **Lawkeeper** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:05 pm

Hey guys, I'm home again and I've built some Legohammer soldiers from Talabheim (those guys have the best colour scheme, I think). I've posted them on my Brickshelf. They´re in the Armies subfolder.

EDIT: I know the pics are a bit small, but that's because I originally intended to put them in this post.

Sir Kohran · Post by **Sir Kohran** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:35 pm

Lawkeeper wrote:Hey guys, I'm home again and I've built some Legohammer soldiers from Talabheim (those guys have the best colour scheme, I think). I've posted them on my Brickshelf.

EDIT: I know the pics are a bit small, but that's because I originally intended to put them in this post.

Then you'd be best posting these in Castle MOCs.

- Matt

LEGOFREAK · Post by **LEGOFREAK** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:40 pm

Sir Kohran wrote:
The list is virtually infinite of random licenses that could be tossed out as potential LEGO sets. But, and I mean no offense here - all that amounts to is pipe-dreams.
I would agree with this. The endless 'How about this theme?' 'Good idea!' topics do get a bit tiring, especially when we all know it won't happen.

I would up for a generic fantasy theme. I think you may be onto a winner here.
Isn't Castle 07 a 'generic' fantasy line?

- Matt

I agree with all of the above, but how about some "I'm going to start building MOC's for this - anyone want to build with me?" threads?
I'd like to see some of those. mostly because two heads are better than one. and four is better than two.. and don't take any plastic znigglings from the andromedeans.

g2 · Post by g2 » Tue May 22, 2007 12:17 am

LEGOFREAK wrote:…how about some "I'm going to start building MOC's for this - anyone want to build with me?" threads?

This is a brilliant idea. So not only are we communicating over long distances, but we are building over long distances. Brilliant!

I like this a lot.

LEGOFREAK wrote:…mostly because two heads are better than one. and four is better than two.

Absolutely :!: