Greystone

[Turaga of Force]

Has anyone seen Greystone castle? It is the best castle on BrickShelf! http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=211881

[Sir Dillon]

Yeah, I've seen it before. I probably would call it the best castle ever, but it certainly is impressive. :-)

[UniqueBuilder]

Omg. X-O That's just so darn awesome. I might get into Castle.. :-P

Respect ON.. 8-

[Norro]

A nice one! A little plain of walls, but that gives it a gorgeous simplicity!

God Bless,

Nathan

[Asuka]

A very impressive castle indeed, with lots of details. *y*

Very fine, with a good landscaping too, but, maybe, just a little blocky.... 8-|

[Bonaparte]

Maybe not the best, but certainly one of the better.

The scenery and buildings outside the castle make this MOC so good.

And I like the gallery about the siege.

[blueandwhite]

Best? I don't know about that. It certainly is in the top 20-25, but there are alot of other wonderful castles on brickshelf to be found if you look hard enough.

How about El Katar?

Or what about Castle Drachenschlaf?

And how can anybody forget Jojo's Falckenstein, one of the earliest and greatest brickshelf Castles.

which in turn inspired this fine castle.

There is also Anthony's Ulmaris

And this awesome LEGO version of Disney's Cinderella Castle

Not all great castles are huge. Hippotam's Operation Lethal Duck is a great example that good things do come in small packages.

JLA's Stoneguard is another fine examle of good small castle.

And all of this is only scratching the surface. Truth is, there are far too many wonderful castles for somebody to definitively claim that one is better than the rest.

[Turaga of Force]

Those are all awesome, but none come close to touching the glory of Greystone... Falconkeep is very impressive, as well as all of the others, though :D

[blueandwhite]

Those are all awesome, but none come close to touching the glory of Greystone... Falconkeep is very impressive, as well as all of the others, though :D

That's your opinion of course. Personally, I still feel that there are too many fantastic MOCs out there to make such a sweeping statement. I certainly don't see anything that makes Greystone stand head and shoulders above all other Castle MOCs myself. Perhaps you could clarify why you feel this way.

Cheers.

[Turaga of Force]

Ya its my opponion but I like it because it is big allowing room for details and making it more realistic, and has a nice look from far away, and had lots of little details i.e. the houses and citadel inside the castle and the ladders going up to the towers that come to the inside... It is definately my favorite

[Starwars4J]

I'm trying to find a certain castle blueandwhite, maybe you can help. I was actually looking for it for this thread but I can't seem to remember the name or the creator. It was huge, taking up many, many baseplates. It had an entire underground section with a black crypt. On top of that they had a cliff that was filled with flowers. It was one of the most impressive, at least in terms of size!

[iamded]

I tend to avoid commenting on these things, as I spend ages looking at all the pics, and then saying all the stuff I like about it in a comment, time which I should be using for my homework. But from the looks of the thumbnails in the brickshelf folder, it's very fancy! And those other ones are pretty amazing too. *sweet*

[Sir Dillon]

I'm trying to find a certain castle blueandwhite, maybe you can help. I was actually looking for it for this thread but I can't seem to remember the name or the creator. It was huge, taking up many, many baseplates. It had an entire underground section with a black crypt. On top of that they had a cliff that was filled with flowers. It was one of the most impressive, at least in terms of size!

This one, perhaps?

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=141827

[Starwars4J]

This one, perhaps?

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=141827

That's the one! Thanks so much, Dillon! That castle, in my opinion, beats Greystone out in both size and detail. What I wouldn't give to be able to make a castle that size...

[Turaga of Force]

Remember to save these castles everyone, since BS is shutting down!

[El Bucanero]

Castle Greystone is a very nice castle! The little houses around and in it make it so special.

Perhaps some of the outside and walls are a bit plain, but the inside is veery detailed.

But some of the castles in Miniland are quite the same so this is a very impressive and beautiful castle.

Mr Tiber

[Lt. Col. Thok]

My gosh. All these wonderful castles...they're works of art.

[Grand Moff Viceroy]

I have seen that on brickshelf a while ago

[gylman]

I have always found the giant castles to be just too much for my simple brain to encompass, and I think a lot of the cleverness and attention to detail of the builder is lost in the enormous construction.

Medium sized castles I think are a better expenditure of time/effort, and this is why things like El-Katar, Lethal Duck, and Stoneguard have been the kind of constructions I have admired most, defined as "gee, I wish I had the skill/talent to do that".

But which is best.....? holy cow, how can you say. Maybe we need a poll? NOT!

[Grand Moff Viceroy]

turbolasers could easily lay seige and destroy that place, and a bombing run would trashh it.

[Norro]

turbolasers could easily lay seige and destroy that place, and a bombing run would trashh it.

Interesting... Although castles and other medieval structures proved to be some of the toughest obstacles for the modern armies of WW2 to overcome ;-)

God Bless,

Nathan

[Norrington]

turbolasers could easily lay seige and destroy that place, and a bombing run would trashh it.

Hardly. Even if they did, these would be impervious to that... uncouth method of attack.

Walls, magic, and an army of the audio-animtronic Pirates and Ghosts!

Take that, you fleshie-loving Star Wars nut! :-D