Sorrelon

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  1. Posted

    You can try using 48729 or the new 22484 to attach the ball to the chain. Alternatively, you can try using the fishing rod part 93229 instead. Using that part alone isn't a good idea, but you can simply hide it by wrapping it around the chain, using its bar (it has a 1L bar, which is the shortest one Lego produces) part to attach the ball to the chain, then connect the 1x1 round stud end of the 93229 on top of the other end of the chain, then connect them to a longer bar.

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    Another servant of the Black Spire? Sleep with both eyes open, servant of the drow, and watch your back after every step. Who knows, perhaps you might meet with the sharp end of a blade when you take a wrong turn at a dark corner. :devil_laugh:

    Sweet vignette, I love your introduction build. Interesting character too. Am I wrong in getting a necromancer vibe from your character?

  6. Posted

    Looks awesome! The building itself is lovely, and I think colours look beautiful as well. I guess the main reason of people complaining about colours is the abrupt change of colours when your MOC is placed together with other buildings on the each side of your MOC. It looks rather good together with the Brick Bank, which also has white colour on the second floor. If you place it between Brick Bank and Parisian Restaurant (or Green Grocer) instead of placing it between Brick Bank and Pet Shop, I believe the colours of buildings might suit each other much better.

    As for casinos, I have no problem with having Lego casinos myself. But, I don't think Lego will ever release an official casino (modular or not), mostly because if they do, someone will bring it to the court by accusing Lego of influencing children and encouraging them to gamble.

    By the way, is your MOC accurate to it's real life counterpart height-wise? I think it can use an extra floor, although it'd probably put it on the same height as the Town Hall or Palace Cinema, perhaps even higher.

  7. Posted

    I watched recently some Ninjago reviews, and then I saw that 70593 "The Green NRG Dragon" and I thought... erm guys? This set contains a dragon, some little stone tower, a quite nice catapult (Which is quite weird, since the pirates use flintlocks and cannons as range weapons)... and several guys with a sword/ staff. Replace the minifigures and you have essentially an awesome castle set. So sad, that Ninjago has more "Castle" in it, than Lego's current castle serie. *cry*

    They are relasing really nice Ninjago sets recently. This last Sky Pirates subtheme of Ninjago has lots of useful parts for both Castle and Pirates builds. Also, Temple of Airjitzu is golden for anyone who builds historical Japanese buildings.

    If German kids are anything like UK kids then Castle sales will be high. Meaning sales for the current Castle sets, as in Nexo Knights. I dread to think how many 6-9 year old boys' parties I have been to with my kids, and how many of the birthday boys have been getting small sets of NK from their friends and the Fortrex from their parents. That one in particular seems to be outselling the Jestro's Lair and other mid-large sets. I guess Jestro's Lair will be saved for Christmas.

    For me, the heroes sets are too blue, but the villains are actually quite decent castle sets (mainly Jestro's Lair) for MOCs. Quite black, but I use a lot of black. It could have been much worse, given Jestro's colours are red and purple, they could have made his lair much more purple than black. Fortunately they didn't.

    I'm a little surprised that they have both NK and Ninjago out at the same time. Obviously different inspirations behind the themes but both quite action focussed sets aimed at mainly boys of a certain age.

    Well, I remember that they've declared Ninjago an evergreen theme like City, Technic, Castle etc., so that's probably why they are both out at the same time.

  8. Posted · Edited by Sorrelon

    Good work, the stonework looks great, and so are the other details. :thumbup: Looks like a busy day, both for workers and soldiers who guard them. Keep those spears sharp and crossbows ready, hopefully, your workers will finish the fortifications on time.

    My character (whom I have not introduced to the Guilds yet) would've been glad to help too, but things went foul in his last contract and he has a (not so) little problem with law in Kaliphlin at the moment. :tongue: But, despite his somewhat notorious career choice, he hates the drow as much as the next Avalonian, so you have but to ask when the drow comes knocking!

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    Nice pub with shelves full of spirits strong and light alike. I like how you used hinge plates as ordinary 1x4 plates and used their hinge parts to add texture to walls. :thumbup:

    I also like the story. I don't know how good is Remington in brawling, but given his current condition, he might make lots of gold in those silent brawls. :laugh:

  10. Posted

    Thanks for the feedback!

    I agree with you on that. I need more Windows so I can add similar detailing to the MMV buildings.

    Great point. I decided to do a little modding based on this feedback. Thoughts?

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    I had considered that. Maybe that's the next step.

    Much better! Giving Magic Shop a sign like Tavern, Blacksmith and Stables of the original set is better. And crossed axes on the Armor Shop definitely looks much better than placing the lion carving right above the door! Tarot cards as decoration is alsoa nice touch. I'd say, your Magic Shop officially works as a fortune teller too! :laugh:

  11. Posted

    Great work! I liked them both, they fit MMV very well. For some reason, Magic Shop reminds me of Legend of Zelda games. Bars on the Armor Shop is a nice detail too! However, I think placing the lion carving for the Armor Shop and magic scroll sign for the Magic Shop right above the doors might give them a more shop-like look.

  12. Posted · Edited by Sorrelon

    And while we are at it..lets make Historica's first low orbit manned flight vehicle...those dwarves can do it!

    I expect it to be a collaboration between dwarven and goblin engineers. And for the sake of making it super cheesy (a.k.a. more Nexo-ish :tongue:) , the vehicle should be operated by being thrown to the low orbit by a supercharged catapult, then once it reaches the preferred altitude, engines start to keep it aloft.

  13. Posted

    But we could have techno castles and mechanical horses, and glowing vibro-lances, right? Who wouldn't want that, a thundering charge of rocket-powered Nexo-Flight-of-Dragons cavalry across the plains of Avalonia, or titan mech-walkers scaling the peaks of Mitgardia like the gods of old, or an oasis full of sassy hologram wizards in the deserts of Kaliphlin? Exciting stuff!

    Right?

    Right?

    Guys?

    I just died a little inside...

    Now I feel terrible even bringing up the topic! :laugh:

  15. Posted · Edited by Sorrelon

    I've asked a similar question in the general discussion thread a while ago. If you are familiar with Lord of the Rings, I'd say all the stuff there are the limit of technology in Historica too. Catapults, ballistae, rails and vagons for dwarven mines, crude elevators and gate opening/closing mechanisms, windmills and watermills, bellows, black oil (ask Kaliphlinites for more detail), and even black powder (not gunpowder, something like Saruman prepared and has a limited use, not for making cannons and guns) are what you can expect to see in Historica. But, gyrocopters and mortars like in Warcraft 3, or an army of mass produced dwarven automatons like in The Elder Scrolls series are a not allowed, as much as I'd love to see Drow torn apart by a legion of steampunk automatons. :tongue:

    Aye, that bombard didn't upset anyone.

    Except for Algus, that is! :grin: It's still one of my fav Nocturnus builds!

  16. Posted · Edited by Sorrelon

    The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings was / were (an) expensive theme, to be sure, but I do think it had more to do with the size, complexity (including the need for new and exclusive molds), and number of sets than the fact they were licensed - at least in the U.S., anyway. But yes, YMMV for Europe and elsewhere.

    Actually, I've forgotten about this. There were lots of new weapons, armors and other accessories both in LotR and Hobbit sets. That kinda makes sense for higher prices.

    ...ah, who am I kidding. I just wish Helm's Deep and Uruk-hai Army sets were cheaper so I could've bought several boxes of each of them :tongue:

  17. Posted

    Yes, the $11 Lord of the Rings sets were much more expensive than $11 Castle sets - wait, what?

    Except there weren't any $11 LotR sets. There were only 2 sets around that price range, Gandalf Arrives and The Wizard Battle for 15€. Even smaller and less detailed sets like The Council of Elrond or Attack on Weathertop are sold for 40€ and 60€ respectively. LotR sets are also more expensive in Europe compared to USA. Even if you calculate USD:EUR as 1:1 (which isn't), most LotR sets, especially army builders like Uruk-hai Army, The Orc Forge or Battle at the Black Gate, are +10€ more expensive in Lego Stores in Europe. On the other hand, 2013-2014 Castle theme had the same prices for every set for USA and Europe. And I wasn't even joking in my earlier post. I'm not about to make a detailed comparison of piece count and prices of all sets in both themes, but going with one example; Pirate Ship Ambush, a 756 piece set, has the same price as King's Castle, which is the biggest set of its wave with 996 pieces. So, yeah, they are more expensive than Castle sets.

  18. Posted

    BTW, when I was in Billund in 2014, I raised the castle issue with some of the designers I know (all of them fans of castle and/or fantasy themes). I was told that castle is currently on hold because the regular castle sets no longer sell well in Germany (which was apparently the primary castle market); from what they know, German kids used to love Castle but they've now switched to Star Wars as their top LEGO theme. Furthermore, their attempt at creating a more "adult" Castle theme (LOTR) didn't go well, so they don't have enough proof that a castle theme for AFOLs would sell :( I'll try to get an update this fall when I go back.

    Well, LotR was a licensed theme and because of that, even smaller sets had a prize as high as a medium sized of a non-licensed theme. That's the biggest reason why not as many AFOLs as they expected didn't buy LotR sets. If that was a non-licensed Castle theme which was more adult focused like LotR, I'm sure thing would've been different.

  20. Posted · Edited by Sorrelon

    Great review! That background really makes the whole thing much better than an empty background.

    Is that the secret leader of Wolfpack bandits on the throne? :tongue:

    I'd also add evil leaders/kings, there are quite a few of them, but they still exist. The earliest I remember is Basil the Batlord of Fright Knights, Cedric the Bull of KK I, Vladek of KK II and finally the Troll King from Fantasy Era. There is also a troll sorceress in the same set as troll king, that one and the witch from the chess set (similar to CMF witch, but with yellow skin instead of green) might also qualify as witches. Not sure about CMF S14 witch though.

  21. Posted · Edited by Sorrelon

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying people should like Nexo Knights. But when a set comes out that is effectively a love letter to Castle fans, and yet those same fans still find a way to interpret it as a slap in the face simply for acknowledging that Nexo Knights traces its heritage to classic castle, shades of "unpleasable fanbase" start to creep in. It's leaping from an honest assessment that "LEGO is letting us down" to frenzied conjecture that "LEGO takes pleasure in tormenting us".

    You completely lost me in the "love letter" part. It's impossible to consider a theme that has giant flying robotic horses, a mobile fortress on treads, tron lines on streets, houses, peasants clothes and basically everything, a holographic computer program wizard, robot squires, knights with power armor and shields that can practically work as a surfboard floating on the air, as a love letter to Castle fans. Using heraldries of Classic Castle sets doesn't help the cause either, since those parts aren't useable in Castle builds, as I said in my earlier message. Do I hate Nexo Knights? No, I've even bought several of minifigures of from the evil faction and other new parts (like new 1x1 pyramid slope part) on Bricklink, but that's about it.

    Considering that several actual LEGO designers are fans of things like steampunk, which has never gotten a full theme to itself, or monorails, which haven't appeared in a LEGO set in over twenty years, I don't think any argument can be made that a few years without a Castle theme prove that LEGO hates Castle fans. But sometimes a certain theme has to take a back seat for a while. It happened to Pirates. It happened to Space. It happened to Town. It happened to Bionicle. Right now it appears to be Castle's turn. I guarantee LEGO doesn't harbor any ill will towards any of us based on what themes we enjoy, and as I see it, it's only a matter of time before Castle fans get their day in the sun again.

    It never really happened to Town. Town basically changed its name, and only the name, to City and never took a backseat at all. This can be justified as City/Town sets appeal to a larger customer base and usually are the gateway to Lego for most people. But, I expect something similar with the other so called "evergreen" themes. With all those Star Wars sets, Lego has already postponed the Space theme for the unforeseeable future, and people who are "whining" don't want the same thing to happen to Castle as well.

    I doubt there's a significant number of 10 year olds lamenting the lack of traditional castle sets at the moment, if for no other reason, they just lack context to understand how integral it is to Lego in the big picture.

    This.

  23. Posted

    I suggested this in another thread, but I wonder with the ideas for new characters getting so fringey, if the way the CMF line is gonna go is a wave per year corresponding to the year (i.e. Wave 17 in 2017, wave 18 in 2018,) with the rest of the waves being specific to franchises like Simpsons, Disney, Lego Batman movie, Ninjago movie, Scooby Doo wave, Dr Who wave, etc?

    That's a horrible idea no matter how you look at it. Unless they are an in-house waves like The Lego Movie wave (or a possible Ninjago Movie wave), franchise-related waves restricts TLG to what a specific franchise offers and even which characters are more popular in the fanbase. If we go by the sales of first and second Simpsons waves, compared to numbered CMF waves, their sales aren't that bright either.

    That would be good for Nexo Knights tree monsters!

    Here are some minifigs that i hope will happen:

    Dragon guy

    Octopus guy

    Space pirate

    Robot knight

    Space firefighter

    Fire alien

    Tree girl

    Alien bounty hunter

    I'd love to get an Alien Bounty Hunter minifigure in a CMF wave. As for Nexo Knights monsters, villains of the next NK wave will be water and forest monsters, so I doubt they'll take the focus off of them by releasing similar minifigures earlier in a CMF wave.

    10) Crab or Lobster Fisherman: If they are going to do a lobster suit someone has to catch him. I'd also like to see other types of fisherman/women.

    New molds for lobster/crab traps? Yes please!

  24. Posted · Edited by Sorrelon

    I kinda had luck in series 16 guessing game, so I'll try this one too. I hope lists from older guessing games are allowed.

    Here is my list:

    1) Alchemist

    2) Groom (S7 Bride is waiting for him for longer than 3 years :tongue: )

    3) Space Scientist

    4) Harpy

    5) University Professor

    6) Cook/Chef (I'm surprised how they didn't make a cook/chef minifigure yet)

    7) Prince (we have Classic King, Fairytale Pricess and Queen, so I guess a prince is next in the line)

    8) Drummer (one that can go along with Rockstar, Punk Rocker and Rocker Girl - possibly a drummer girl)

    9) Shepherd (with a sheep, similar to S15 Farmer with his pig)

    10) Navigator (with a Pirates style compass and a map)

    11) Apprentice Wizard (young apprentice of S12 Wizard

    12) Saloon Pianist

    13) Tailor

    14) (Polar)Bear Suit Guy

    15) Goalkeeper

    16) Prankster (child minifigure with a slingshot, possibly with a dual face print - one side is a smiling face and the other side is laughing)

  25. Posted

    As much as I love the fact that this is a tribute to 375 Castle and Krentz, I think a lot more AFOL Castle fans would vote for it if it didn't have the yellow color scheme. Sad, really, because it's a great build.

    Exactly. Switching yellow parts with tan or dark tan would be the best choice, as it'd get vote from more AFOL Castle fans while not straying too far from the original colour scheme of 375 Castle.