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Weekly Set Re-Review: Defense Archer
Ben E. 11 V 08
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 1287/4801/4811 Defense Archer.
Defense Archer was released in 2000 for Knight's Kingdom.
One archer mans this rotating, crossbow-firing station.
Various accessories are included.
Kabaya released this set in Japan with the number 1287.
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New Classic-Castle Admin and Moderator!
CC Team 4 V 08
Classic-Castle.com is proud to announce our latest Administrator,
Josh Wedin.
Josh has been an active member of CC since 2003.
His community contributions include and running the annual
Battles Contest,
moderating the Classic-Castle forums,
blogging for The Brothers Brick,
and being an active member of SeaLUG.
We are also adding a new moderator to the Classic-Castle team,
Darkie.
Please welcome Caylin to the CC Brute Squad!
Discuss our latest members of the CC Team
here.
You can find information on the roles of Administrators and Moderators in the
Terms of Service.
The Admins have also created a new area for Admin Alumni.
As with all online communities, leaders often are called away due to real life and other interests.
Check out all of these admins who helped build our site and community.
Without their years of service, Classic-Castle would not be what it is today. Thank you!
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Giant Yellow Castle
Bruce N. H. 26 IV '08
Did you ever wish you could live the life of a minifig?
Well, until someone invents a shrinking ray, your next best bet is to check out Duncan Titmarsh's
Giant Yellow Castle.
Last year Duncan attended the Brickish Association's Annual General Meeting and was impressed by the
6-scale bricks built by others.
These are six-times larger scale model sculptures of existing LEGO elements built out of normal bricks.
He decided to take this concept to its ultimate conclusion and build a whole set at 6-scale --
not just recreating the final set at this size,
but actually building every brick in the set at 6-scale and then assembling them into one gigantic MOC.
He quickly decided on set 375, the famous Yellow Castle.
It's a set he wanted as a kid and is immediately recognizable to the community.
It took about a year to bring this project together, mostly acquiring the bricks but the last three months building.
He said the most difficult thing to find was this
Technic liftarm,
as he needed 360 of those in yellow to make the six 1x1 rounds for the set.
The most difficult building challenge was the hinge bricks,
as he wanted to ensure that they would function.
Once all of the giant bricks were assembled, he
boxed them up
and brought them to the Brickish Association's Annual General Meeting, held April 5 and 6 in Sheffield.
There the attendees got to join in the fun as
everyone helped build
the castle from the original set instructions.
He plans to bring his giant bricks to future events,
and maybe next time they'll try to put together one of the alternate models from the back of the box.
Duncan also recruited James Sutton, who built
all of the minifigs and their accessories at the same scale.
As a kid Duncan was into Technic.
After a four-year dark age, he found Technic again and
started collecting.
He lives in Aldershot, which is about 40 minutes outside of London,
and is a member of the Brickish Association.
His work can be found in his Brickshelf gallery.
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