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Let's take a look : It's build entirely studs up, the roofs uses parts we've had since the 50's. The Tudor work is also very basic. The set does look good but it's a very boring build. In fact it's very similar to 3739 released in 2002. That set was made by an AFOL and designs like that dates all the way back to when AFOLs first started sharing MOCs online Heck, you can even see similarities from this building in IDEA Book 6000 from 1980! : Even though 2009 (when the MMV was released) seems ages ago and in LEGO terms much have happened since it was the same year TLG put out Grand Carousel, The Firebrigade, The Winter Toy Shop and number of cool Indiana Jones/SW sets so they could indeed have spruced up the NPU and fun building eperience, imho Cheers, Ole

I had well over a hundred red MMs and I've thrown out at least twenty. They just go bad and there is no cure. I don't even think you can transfer the cool coloured cases to normal red ones Just because they test finel at your end they may be faulty when they reach the buyer. I've had to replace a few I've sold via Bricklink and most of them I've sold locally, pick up only The fact is it's an awfull, overly complicated desgn. But back then it was very hard to get decent torque and low rpm into such a small package Good luck!

Also, and this is surely going to be unpopular, TOO DANG MUCH non-LEGO stuff on this site! I sorta understand the wide circle train tracks and the Buwizz stuff, but the CADA shit - which is a total LEGO ripoff - does not belong here. And i'm quite sure if EB wants to keep their special relationship with TLG they should not allow that stuff I may be in the minority though. EB could change from "Eurobricks" to "Worldwide Whatever Knock-off Bricks" and I'm sure many would be happy Cheers, Ole

Understandably. This is the way modern LEGO sets look like. However, the chocolate parts could have been dark brown, which would have been much better, imho. Some of the parts in this set and the new blacksmith set probably do not exist in that colour but now would have been the perfect time to add them The roof parts and the yellow (or is that flame yellow?) wall parts look very basic and could probably be switched very easily to white walls and black roof if one fancies that Same with the banners ... (and the dragon could be turned into a shrubbery - "Bring me the shrubbery!") Very nice set all in all! MMV looked very basic when it was released, like a MOC pre 2000. Nothing fancy about that, except the whole idea. It was pretty much civilian CC condensed into one set. The Raid was somewhat better (goats!) but the windmill was grossly out of scale and should have been swapped with a decent farm house I think the Joust still holds up today, especially if you get two as intended by TLG MMV was a very basic build, the Joust much better. i'm sure an expert level Castle would sell quite well compared to say the Colosseum or that football stadium as long as it not the same scale. A succes needs the figs Many of the HP sets are basicly proper Castle but in tan, Elves and Disney are too much fantasy (for my liking) and I'm not sure TLG should go down that road with Castle

A variation of the 1x5 plate was made by TLG more than two decades ago as a prototype. You can be sure that any combination of brick, plate, slope etc have been done or modelled by TLG years ago

Anything can be a spaceship. I'd love to see some MOCs with these parts, that is MOCs where these aren't just shoved in, but an essential part of the MOC. Like the skate ramp from the the same sports category in that cool Medieval MOC I'm all for NPU but soem parts are just crap! (not to beconfused with CRAP)

The Crusaders ARE the Lion Knights. Never like that word "crusader" myself, too much baggage Btw, I never called the BF "Black Falcons" when I was a kid, they were always Ørneridderne (Eagle Knights) The 200 IDEA Book is also very consistent with the red/yellow flags for the Lions and green/white ones for the Falcons

It looks like a common peasant house in Lion Knight country that was raided by the Black Falcons and then used as an outpost .. I could easily see those fellas shootin' dice and drinking beer in that place while looking out for the Lion Knights return Just needs a few dead peasants lying on the ground Uncle Owen/Aunt Beru style Yeah, I dislike reddish brown. Looks very cheap and plasticy. Nothing like wood. Black looks better for trees imho

It's also very unrealistic

Black always looks better. Reddish brown makes look like a chocolate house, I hate it Nice MOC but i wouldn't call it an outpost. Looks like a typical village building

bb0128 https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=bb0128#T=C And 30493 https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=30493#T=C There are other wierdo parts in that sports category. Not all is useless though as we can see in that nice Castle MOC with the skateboard ramps Cheers, Ole

That's adult MOCing though. Still haven't seen any MOCs with those weird sports handles!

Several people can do it. I had some done at a local LUG meeting by one of the modelbuilders in Billund. Steindrucker.com can also do custom engraving and printing You definitely need a 1x6 brick with "Toastmaster"

More fun can be had if it was four 1x2 bricks

Way more than actual LEGO logos

I'd love to hear more about that secret design group "ZYX"! I wonder when the filling off the studs started as there we're studless beams in 1986 (the crane arm and the Techfig legs)? Maybe the geezers can be interviewed if not bound to NDAs from here to Eternity

Eh? Black Falcon flags are GREEN and WHITE. As a kid I surely noticed that. And yellow/red for the Lion Knights. That is the the way But TLG never could keep it straight Single BF knight in 6021 (1984) - blue flag Single BF knight in 6067 (1986) - green flag The 6074 BF castle (1986), knights with blue flags, gate with yellow flags, tower with blue flag (but with the cool cool silver eagle) The 6062 wall section (1987), blue AND white flags The actual Black Falcon knight in 6035 .. a single white flag (and a blue flag on a post) Cheers, Ole

This is a Creator set. It will be produced in the hundreds of thousands, if not not millions of copies. It will be available worldwide for a long time. Also scalpers will pick this up so it will be possible to buy this MISB in five years just slightly over retial

Well, there seem to be a metric ton of LEGO sites/blogs etc these days (not to meantion SoME in general, sigh) and I only follow, BL, EB, BS and NE as they're (thankfully) different enough. I've read your reviews and comments and it's easy to spot your love for NE I'd love to wite some Old Elementary articles but taking pictures is just too damn boring Looking at modern LEGO instructions online is very painfull so I get why you like detailed pics OT is my middle name Anyway, when are the reviews out for this set? That grainy pic on the tube is not very exciting And if really only is a hundred dollars the best the modern Castle builders can do is to buy a LOT of them. That should send a clear message to Billund!

Gluing LEGO! I've only seen that twice. Once I got a 8860 with a lot. It had am ugly attempt of a brickbuild body. No sweat, I'll just break that down in parts .. but it was glued Secondly, I answered an ad locally for a big CS collection. When I got there I was told by the original owner that it was glued as that was the way he prefered to play with LEGO when he was a kid. Yeah, buddy, you might have mentioned that in the ad

Yeah, that was indeed nice. Not so nice that my father threw the lot away. I did have buckets of LEGO inherited from that nincompoop, like a lot of blue track trains. But that was old hat in 1980 when the grey era started

I did not mean that as a put down, it's just what I observe with modern LEGO collecting, especially among AFOLs I always read BS reviews of sets (I like to know what's going on with LEGO even though I don't have any interest in buying that stuff) and there's pretty much always only a pic of the final build but many close-ups of the minifigs. I'd like to know if there are cool parts or interesting building techniques but alas that don't seem to interest the readers of BS But then we got NE for that Also, with the CMFs and more than a thousand different SW minifigs is obvious that is all the rage. In discussions on EB about upcomming sets it's not rare to read that a poster will or will not buy this very expensive set based on a single minifig. That really baffles me I mean, any minifig can be bought tthrough other channels anyway? Back to Castle .. There was a Lions Knights/Crusader set issued not too long ago (modern parts/colours) but with a fairly (?) authentic torso. Was that set also hoarded massively like what is going on with the new Black Falcon minifigs? Edit : this set (from 2016) https://brickset.com/sets/5004419-1/Classic-Knights-Minifigure

Not all of us. I had a pretty big collection of Classic CS/CC, Town, Trains and Technic. and even with that I tended to MOC mostly. So did we all back then. The great IDEA Books was a major inspiration to me and so was the back-of-the-box-builds I've also bought a lot of unsorted lots over the years and I mostly see official sets in various states of disrepair, not MOCs

I don't think, I know I spend a lot of time around kids, I work professionally with kids, I know many other adults who do, I have contacts at LEGO .. and I ask a lot of questions No, kids do not MOC as much as me and my friends did when we were kids. They tend to build the sets as they are allthough a lot of minifig modding is popular It's only when there's a big tub of parts I see MOCing, be it privately, in kindergarden or in (pre)school Modern sets are complicated, have loads of parts and there's only one suggestion in the set. I also very rarely see 3-1 Creator sets being taken apart to make the other two I've been quite observant of this for a decade and I've asked a number of adults in other parts of the world as well Cheers, Ole

It's called timber framing with wattle and daub (can be bricks too) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_framing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_and_daub And in real life can be very colourfull indeed (allthough chocolate brown for the timber part is not something you see often. Black seem to be prevalent) Cheers, Ole