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Still available in North America http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=7666&cn=240 X-D It seems a little odd to withdraw it a short time before Xmas ? 8-| Looks like bug ...

But I think that from a marketing point of view, there are good reasons for big packaging : - it's easier to deal with boxes of standard sizes (Just have a look of the parcels Lego Direct sends ! always the same size, only the height changes), - they offer plenty of space to show what is in, - they are more noticeable in shops, - it much more impressive : though you leave EUR 99 in the shop, you get a very big and colourful box (for the RC). I think that lego isn't jewellery and people expect to have someting big for the price. Even though, they could put airbags in their boxes. It would prevent parts, booklets and stickers to be damaged *sing*

So good, but as I bought 6 towers, I got 6 princess *wacko*. It's no more a court, it's a harem :-P Should put some snowtrooper helmets or stuff like these on her heads :-D. I wish some monks (or nuns) too. What about a monastery, with barrels of wine, a library and a smell of Eco. I plan to buy some mines as soon as it ll be available. Dwarfs could seat in my medieval inn ...

I bought two, one on shop at home and one in TRU (EUR 49.90 at TRU Paris La D

The nice thing with the new Castle line is that you can easily get a lot of horse barding ! *wub* However, I do prefer the one with silver chain mail pattern, so I bought : - 2 King's castle sieges - 6 skeleton tower - 1 skeleton ship attack - 1 skeletons' prison carriage - 6 Knights' Catapult Defense - 10 Crossbow Attack - 6 Final Joust This last one is particular cheap - ca EUR 6.9 - in my local supermarket (Cora). I also planned to buy more horse bardings on BL but there are too many gremlins there - it's very hard to get one. I also bought a lot of navy, gold and medium blue flags - it's much more impressive to see a lot of knights riding with flags on their lance ! - shields, spears and quivers. I wish TLG will produce sets with women :-$ and peasants *sing* in a near future. It would be nice to have somebody to be protected from the orcs, dwarfes and skeletons... X-D

-> You would find one on 1000steine.com

Do not know if anybody noticed it, but it's already on S@H :