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  1. thewatchman
    This is incredible! Perfect colour choices and feels very alive and natural. The perfect mix of studs and tiles to feel realistically weathered. Amazing job!
  2. thewatchman
    I totally agree with all of this take. Creator and friends are really doing a lot of heavy lifting for design lately. The creator castles have been great for minifigures and parts suppliers (maybe not so much the horse knights castle, too many large panel pieces), but I wonder why not making minifigure packs with small side build like a carriage or a small ruin havnt been made available, I honestly think for the company this would just be printing money.
  3. thewatchman
    I actually think that Lotr sets have done a huge amount of damage for castle fans. Getting bi-yearly overpriced massive sets in grey / light grey / black kind of takes away from the fun, bright, interesting style that castle used to offer. I might be biased because I build with my son but smaller battle packs and smaller sets seems like a bit more user friendly and accessible. Seeing the way they have approached the Pokémon licence is kind of the perfect example. A children’s animated series with $600 first release, predatory gift with purchases, over blown other sets with black boxes and an 18+ on the corner without a shred of self awareness.
  4. thewatchman
    So soul crushed that we’re imagining costume versions of castle figs 😂. Time to accept that TLG activity doesn’t want to give castle fans or pirate fans a bone if they can just drip feed occasional figs into wildly priced sets. Interestingly I read in a staff breakdown by age of TLG workers recently and many were under the age of 38, which made me realise that most probably arnt nostalgic for the same stuff as many fans who grew up with these themes, and perhaps why we have seen fortnight sets; over watch sets; horizon sets, a large run of one-piece sets and 2 series of Harry Potter collectible minis.
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    That’s the issue, it’s very very “samey”. This isn’t a new problem, the brick bounty and redbeards bounty are almost identical in design, and now these two creator ships are almost identical in design. With less variety of parts the barracuda and skull eye schooner couldn’t appear any different, and for $100 us plus sets, not including fabric sails is absolutely unacceptable. Im glad people are enjoying these sets for themselves, but in 6 years time when you get the same ship, with barely any changes, with less parts for more money, and no other dedicated pirate sets people might start feeling a bit disillusioned.
  6. thewatchman
    Typical modern lego. Remaking the same set less than a few years apart, with less parts for more money, and shoehorning in unique figs for a classic line and relying on FOMO to sell the sets is scummy at best and outright predatory at worst. Both castle and pirate fans are so beaten down that sets like these and a cmf every 4 years are seen as a win. I’d love to see what the sales data on this set looks like, sadly I think it will do well due to the figs like the horse knights castle.
  7. thewatchman
    Very nice. I dislike this creator castle, mostly due to large solid grey boring pieces but you managed to make something very interesting out of it, I especially like the back windows of the inn.
  8. thewatchman
    Having finishing playing this recently I loved the visuals of the game and wanted to make a display piece representing it. Hope you all enjoy!
  9. thewatchman
    Supported! Always happy to support castle ideas. The only change I’d make would be the tile strip after the curved tile might look better in either dark green or dark tan to break up the brown.
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    Host the images externally and provide links to the images in your message.
  11. thewatchman
    I recently built the siege encampment for the LKC and decided to build a similar one for the mountain fortress. I had to include a small reference to set 6039, a favorite of mine. The witches command tent with plenty of tomes. The ever important catapult. The captains field tent. The battering ram. The camp gate. Off duty soldier. Field blacksmith for all weapon needs. prisoner and mounted knight and squire. Ballista for distance attacks. Field kitchen and bonfire. hope you all like and are inspired to do some similar builds. More images can be found on my Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/193674195@N05/
  12. thewatchman
    These look incredible. I love the trident build too. I had a few delivered and used some ninjago legs and a cmf torso to build a custom too.
  13. thewatchman
    The original leak said it was basically the same as the previous creator ship but with a lower part count. I don’t think anyone’s expectations should be a high on this one.
  14. thewatchman
    I found this strange too.
  15. thewatchman
    Hard agree with this with the exception of a few sets. I loved the fantasy era skeleton boat attack on the harbour. but mill village was the best return.
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