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The minifigs should stay the way they are. Dont like those licensed minifigs... prefer the yellow ones, dont really know why. Got myself the lone ranger silver mine these days and should I ever plan to do something wild west I will customize the minifigs into yellow...

Just beautiful!!!

Like many have already said, the best thing were the minifigs, I would have been able to buy the kings castle but it didnt really look appealing to me - was kinda bland - this disappointing feeling towards the castle made me realize I needed to build my own castle one day!!! :) I bought sets 70400,70401,70402. 70400 is a nice battle pack if you ask me, the other stuff is just OK, I guess. Personally I would really like some long term commitment from lego in regard to castle. I mean, they should bring out a couple of waves in the beginning of the year, half a wave during summer, and repeat this cycle. Each wave should consist of at least on villager pack (some village building, village animals and of course VILLAGERS :)).

Many thanks in advance! I am still struggling with my tree builds - really love the bigger trees that you have and especially how the leaves are so well put together

OK - its the daltonist in me :) just btw - what color have you been using for the water in the beacon tower? - any chance you could do a tutorial on those trees?

Truly fantastic!!! Just to be on the safe side, the plates on the ground, is this sand-yellow?

NICE!!!!

This thread might be a little weird, forgive me :) I am a little bit new to lego and was wondering about brick colors in historic/castle context. My question is which brick colors can actually be used, where are the boundaries? For example I was thinking about buying the lego creator beach hut (31035), mainly because of the roof tiles, on the other hand its got a lot of yellow bricks which might be a little bit off. What are your opinions? Which non standard colors can be used for what?

Thanks! There is a whole lot to improve. But for now this is the way I wanna go! - I am thinking about creating some sort of a jungle area, some lush landscape ...

Thanks, as of now I have been just playing around a little bit :) even though its nothing special feel free to have a look at my latest creation :) upload pic

Exactly!!! :) I remember talking to a guy once and telling him about it - he couldnt really believe it :). A delivery truck with a tuborg label was standing next to us, he asked me what the colors on that label were. Well, that one was easy I thought, green writing on brown background. He looked at me in disbelief and said: For real? You dont see the colors? - it was then that I learned that the writing was actually something like light or bright brown on very dark green background... :) so much for colors! Yes being a daltonist is not fun - but I am sure that theres lots of worse things out there... :)

Thank you for your words! I am building 'all the time'! - Last of my builds was a small cliffside with some palm trees on top... not good enough to post though.... :( The reason behind my questions about brick colors is that I have a problem with colors, its hard for me to distinguish colors, or even name them when the shades are untypical. Lego is helping me with it a little bit as I learned to match the colors with the descriptions :) like dark green, bright green and now bright yellow-green, if I didnt know the official description, I wouldnt be able to name them. - So matching colors is not easy for me at all.. :)

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. Looking at mocs its mostly dark green, though.

Looks great! The only thing that I am not a friend of are these doors with visible hinges on the outside, but thats just personal taste!

This thread might be a little weird, forgive me :) I am a little bit new to lego and was wondering about brick colors in historic/pirate context. My question is which brick colors can actually be used, where are the boundaries? For example I was thinking about buying the lego creator beach hut (31035), mainly because of the roof tiles, on the other hand its got a lot of yellow bricks which might be a little bit off. What are your opinions? Which non standard colors can be used for what?

... I mean like here for example: http://www.google.pl/imgres?imgurl=http://www.fotothing.com/photos/1bd/1bdaa883e5c988fd0ce110c7baada0f3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.fotothing.com/Olympe1961/photo/1bdaa883e5c988fd0ce110c7baada0f3/&h=339&w=550&tbnid=kR0ZSaujlmG0lM:&zoom=1&docid=HK0uiIOiKtGaVM&ei=2wBRVcujOsK7ygPYhYCgCw&tbm=isch&ved=0CDEQMygOMA4

looks amazing!!! btw what are the serial numbers to those light bricks?

Now I have another color problem! :) I bought myself some green baseplates - in regard to grassy surfaces dark green seems to be the best IMHO, in fact its the only option if I want to create some uneven grassy terrain as I dont have any of those bright green plates anyway. So dark green is my color of choise for grass. Now what about that bright yellow-green? What do you think? Can it be useful for something? Would it pass for a grass area? I mean its kinda yellowish...

Now I have another color problem! :) I bought myself some green baseplates - in regard to grassy surfaces dark green seems to be the best IMHO, in fact its the only option if I want to create some uneven grassy terrain as I dont have any of those bright green plates anyway. So dark green is my color of choise for grass. Now what about that bright yellow-green? What do you think? Can it be useful for something? Would it pass for a grass area? I mean its kinda yellowish...

Just out of curiosity, why is the grey baseplate so expensive??? in relation to the sand and green baseplates? Actually I am just interested in the green stuff for now but it seems a little bit unreasonable if its just the color that is different... What do you guys think?

I built mine yesterday (together with the shipwreck defense). I liked it so much that I went to buy both soldier sets today... now I am kinda out of money (unplanned). I am even thinking about buying the brick bounty - probably during summer time, need to save up some money now... no more sets for :(

Has anyone heard any rumours wether the pirates theme will be continued?

Thanks for the info! - I have finally come to the conclusion that I dont really like that bright yellow color (the one thats used for the beach hut). In the end it was a good decision not to buy it, invested the money into the treasure island set - for the minifigs basically (and some parts). I made a decision only to buy sets that will be most useful in the long run for castle/pirates mocs/dioramas... time is probably not of the essence (as it will take a long time to get so experienced as to post something here, though).

winter/spring 2016??? Thats a long time from now... :(

bought it today - finally gave in to the temptation :)