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Question as above... I guess that most of our members have these 3 kinds of Legos - sets they got in their childhood, - used sets - whenever these were bought for building parts or because there was no classic sets on the market anymore - and completely new sets I'm pretty sure a lot of people treasure their classic childhood parts so much that keep them separately. I even remember that I used to keep my Black Seas Barracuda parts separately from the rest of my Pirate sets, as it was a gift from my beloved uncle and it was so special for me! And right now I'm starting to buy used and new sets - used will work only for parts for my MOCs etc, I can't really consider used stuff as something that I could enjoy and treasure as much as new sets. Of course these will interact with each other sometimes but I don't wanna mix those parts... But I might mix my classic sets with MISB classic sets if bought - as this might work as expanding my childhood-dream collection

This is a very good and extremly precise guide to the Tournament HJ! I think that Admins should index it as official. Who's with me? Anyone else noticed that lobster had a weird accident with a lipstick?

You damn commies gonna get a third place maximum! And Dr Spock, I'm sorry but you really need to buy yourself new glasses - you've hanged this guy by his hair! Looking at the picture I'm not even sure if this is actually rope you're holding - it looks rather like this guys has a very long pony tail ;) This gave me an idea! Gentelmen! Maybe we can still save this poor little fellow, whoever he is... To arms! Ehh... Grimmbeard. You gonna attack from the centre, I'm gonna... err... secure the back.

It almost happened - http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Europa was a theme in works but canceled as it would probably interpenetrate other themes like Castle and Pirates too much. You can clearly see wigs and stuff in the picture: although I would really like it to happen it looks like a mixture of ancien regime and revolutionary France - those revolutionary bicorns worn by the infantry... I wonder if it was proposed before or after Pirates came to life... if it was before Pirates then cancelation of the product could be the actual reason why we have XVIII and XIX century soldiers in a pirate theme there is even a different type of ( field ) cannon as for the bad guys I think we can see them right by the windmill - these two men in black look rather suspiciously

"teach fencing"?... maybe with a spork... go play with your rope

Why is Admiral wearing my nightgown? Oh and Davy... You should really quit spaghetti, You got it all over you

1) Mazin 2) Bluecoats 3) last action hero... well "soldier" will do... in our army simple privates know how to do anything anyway... why bother

Wow... that's OOOOONE mancave you guys got in there! hey! what is my cat doing there?? That's a great introduction mistic See that there's a lot of nice stuff... you really must have spent hours to clean all of that... Your wife must be a perfect female being... she tolerates your hobby, she likes it, and even plays with it by herself... is that a wonder woman or what Paradiso.... it's obviously a little bit girlish theme, but I always wanted to have that... reminds me of the 80s, miami vice and stuff even though I didn't get a single set from this series, it still has an important place in my heart for many sentimental reasons Anyway... Welcome to Eurobricks

Morning there Sigolf. Good to have you here It's nice to see someone else is trying to write something on his own I've been writing couple of novels and screenplays myself, just never can't focus enough ( or find time ) to finish most of them So what's your story will be about? Guess something based on nordic myths? Anyway... Welcome to Eurobricks

he's serbian actually

Seems that my previous post disappeared so I'll write again. Yeah... rising new generation and playing Lego, what can be better ha? Good to have you here mate! Scotland's really nice place, my brother used to live in Oban for year and a half Welcome to Eurobricks!

Evening there buddy... Wow... that's a really nice name Good to have you here! Welcome to Eurobricks

Does staying in Rijeka's port for 3 months count as being Croatian? Good to have you here Quatro. Welcome to Eurobricks

Great stuff. Very cool. Welcome to Eurobricks!

That's a great introduction Gerry Welcome to Eurobricks Raising a new generation and playing Lego, what can possibly be better? Me too! Very curious about your creations.

Wow... very nice It's amazing what you did with the back.

Good morning and hello to you Qro. Can I have that stuff you're throwing aside? Welcome to Eurobricks!

Good morning! Good to have you here Rolfo "sleepless from Seattle" Welcome to Eurobricks

Good to have you here Flying_Lego. Welcome to Eurobricks Yeah, Singapore is a realyy nice place, a hot one and very expensive too Been there last year. Changi Airport is fine, but I prefer Munich and Frankfurt though... guess You always have to travel by one of these right?

Yeah! I agree completely. I still use to take them from toys stores from habit ( and you always have to trick emplyees to give them to you as they don't really want to do that anymore ) but there's basically nothing to look at! Old ones were masterpiece of marketing and composition, they're still enjoyable and fresh, and you want to explore them, even though I remember every page almost perfectly. New ones are garbage...

The biggest problem with cowboys and ninjas... vikings as well... is... the enemy. With pirates we had soldiers - obvious choice - good "guerillas" of the sea fighting with nicely outfitted yet cruel and greedy soldiers. With knights - two or more knights factions - well obviously "good" Lions and "bad" Blacks Falcons... and there were also ( Robin-Hood like ) Forestmen + ( thief like ) Wolfpack. It worked well and was pretty accurate historically. But this wasn't really the case with Western - I liked these outlaws, but seriously - were angry faces making them a serious enemy? were Indians bad guys? Ninjas - good ninjas, bad samurais? ... hm... not sure about that... and the biggest problems with ninjas was they they basically looked all the same - masked guys... what can you make from that point? Vikings - fighting dragons?.... eee... excuse me! Standarisation may not be a big problem. As the look of a Roman legionary has been evolving for centuries. They had different armor and outfit through the beginnings, Republic, Empire and so and so... + Byzantium of course. And all ot these could be actually mixed together, let's not forget axuiliares etc I'd say it could be possible to make fine sets... but then they would obviously have to go for different nations or mix it together into some kind of "antics". Yeah... I guess they could go with different names and mix some of the similar factions without clear differences: Romans + Greeks Barbarians ( Celts, Germans, Gothces etc ) + Scythians Egyptians Persians Assyrian... Oh... I'd love to see Persians in phrygian caps They kind of did a "Roman" guy years ago : Was there really such a big ( visible ) difference? Well they could just use different architecture style for existing fake factions - like making Black Falcons more "French" and Lions more "British" I'd actually say that there is more medieval stuff to take from the Slavs ( Russian castles and armor ), late medieval warfare etc... or even mix Vikings into Castle theme...

I've searched Forum and surprisingly couldn't find such one ( correct if I'm wrong ), so would like to start a new discussion - what kind of new Lego theme based not on novadays world, fantasy, or popular franchises, but based on HISTORY would you like to see. The basic idea is to think of a theme that could be made with the traditional Lego approach - a history theme that would be more like a fairy tale not a clearly accurate one. Like Pirates and Castle are, with its romantic feeling, mixing different historical periods together, creating something looking more like a childish idea of what the whole Pirates or Knights and Castles times were all about. The most peculiar thing about history based Lego themes is that these were never clearly involving any nations ( and so did not abuse anyone ), being very neutral in this matter, focusing more on other attributes - like simplicity and playability of the these sets, simple undestandable rules of the world in a certain theme, contributing more to it's success. So do you think there is any other historical period that could be made into a lego theme the same way? With simple, yet clearly enjoyable world that kids could draw into. Design of characters, good guys/bad guys, bases, weapons used etc... Well - Pirates and Knights were the obvious choices... Western being another... on the other hand it didn't give that many possibilities... Same with Vikings or Ninjas... I know that there's a lot of Ancient Rome or Napoleonics enthusiast here or anywhere around the net... but these are much more militaristic and complex ideas. It's obvious that it's impossible anymore to make a new historical theme that would not interpenetrate other themes - I mean - Castle and Pirates where like completely different worlds - one had ships, island, monkeys, sharks, muskets, etc... and the other one had horses, castles, armor, bows and swords... Well, there're always cavemen Anyway... Which historical period and what competing factions would you propose, that could work as well as Pirates or Castle? I think my first choce would be to create something based on the romantic vision of Orient/Arabian Nights - mixing arabian, persian, ottoman and indian culture together. This would give a large base for outfits, architecture, weaponry, animals used etc that could work well together.

Good to have you on Eurobricks LEtsGO Welcome

Exactly this one or with yellow box? As much as I'd like to have this one I think that yellow box is a classic. Maybe it's just a tiny little difference but it works better for me

Yeah, I guess tying Blue Coats with French and Red Coats with British started right at the very begging of Lego Pirates It's kind of surprising that they actually released those 2009 sets with Red not Blue ones, as they are the ones considered "classic" and more popular among the fandom - well, that's my observation at least BTW what is the name of that 2009 admiral/governor... is called ...house or .... side again?