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    Don’t know if we can discuss rumours in this thread, but the word on the street is that there’s going to be a Maleficent in dragon form as part of the Disney centenary range. Unclear if that will be the dragon as it appears in Sleeping Beauty or the phoenix-like creature in the second Maleficent film. My guess would be the former as it’s more iconic. Either way, I’m looking forwards to it!
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    Very cool . Rather than attack the castle, couldn’t the skeletons just lay siege to it? They’re infinitely patient, and require no food, drink, fuel (to keep warm) or sleep. Perfect besiegers! I only have one 3-in-1 Creator Castle, but am also using it as the home of my Black Falcons. I found the yellow infill in the walls to be too garish, so replaced those pieces with tan ones, and swapped the red quadrants on the banners with more appropriate blue ones. Here’s a CMF Series 24 falconer converted to an archer and set on the barbican tower.
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    Cool Black Falcons army! I especially like the soldiers with the halberds and the kettle hats. Somehow, that style of helmet really suits them. My vampire army - with some sarcophagi for flavour:
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    A bit late in posting these...
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    I used an illegal technique to reverse the orientation of the mod in the build below. Specifically, I used blue Technic pins to turn a couple of anti-stud surfaces into studded ones. It's illegal because the pins don't go all the way through and are therefore stressed. But I'm not too worried because: Even if the pins eventually break, I have loads of spares. Besides, they're readily available very cheaply on the secondary market and likely always will be. I have designed it so that the pins are easily accessed. I hardly have to do any deconstruction to get to them. There is no structural dependency on the pins. If they break, gravity will keep the build together anyway. I would need to turn it upside down for it to fall apart, and I don't intended to ever turn it over. It's not hard to remember or figure out where the pins are. If you follow the four principles above (spare parts, access, no structural dependency and minimal required record keeping), you should be fine regardless of what illegal technique you use.
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    Thanks ☺️ In case anyone was wondering, the three weapons and the shield on the left are third party pieces, not LEGO.
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    Great tip! Thank you. In true orkish style, I have stolen your idea for my orc on the right...
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    Hello, Willie, At the risk of stating the obvious and this probably isn’t much use given where you’re based, but I got 10 of them today from one of the Westfield stores in London: 3 Orcs 3 Falconers 2 Brown Spacemen & Baby Bennies 2 T-Rex Guys They had all of them though and, it seemed, plenty of each.
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    @Vliebricker, Yes, I can well imagine a squad of powerful wizards being the equal of an army of knights, men-at-arms and rank-and-file soldiers. In my headcanon, wizardry takes innate ability, considerable intellect and long years of study as an apprentice to a powerful wizard or at a university/college of magic, making wizards extremely rare. If that were not the case and any Joe Schmo could master the arcane arts, wizards would dominate the battlefield - and the world!
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    Indeed. In some settings such as those in most D&D worlds, a group of high level (i.e. powerful) wizards could certainly hold their own against melee, missile and monster combatants. Likewise in the Marvel universe where sorcerers such as Wong, Dr Strange and their sorcerous companions are portrayed in battle in the MCU.
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    Not sure if wizards qualify as an 'army'. Not even sure what the right collective noun is: college, coven, council? Anyway, here are some of my good human wizards. I have others, as well as non-humans, but not pictured.
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    @MKJoshA, Outstanding review and pictures! Thank you for that. I’m not that into LEGO Viking ships, but if I did get one, it would probably be Thor’s Goat Boat. It just appeals to me more aesthetically.
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    @Lyichir Those are indeed interesting parts! Thanks for sharing I hope LEGO eventually does them in pearl silver as well.
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    At the risk of stating the patently obvious, set 76244 contains a great vampire minifigure. It’s actually the Morbius character from the Marvel universe but can serve as a vampire in any fantasy/fantasy-horror MOC.
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    The word from Promobricks is that the forthcoming CMF series 24 will include a brown CS spaceman with some kind of gauge or measuring device and a CS baby in blue.
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    I hate to say ‘I told you so’ but I totally called LEGO doing D&D back in May right here on the EB boards! I’m so excited to see what the fan submissions are like and whether it’s a single set or part of a D&D range developed in-house by LEGO.
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    The modifications in the Brickset article include exactly that change: replacing the Technic parts at the front with 3839a (plate with two bars).
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    There's an article on Brickset with suggested mods to this set to make it look a bit more retro. With the mods, it looks like the love-child of the old and new Galaxy Explorers. @CP5670 A couple of the changes described in that article are parts (one yellow, another black) beneath the surface layer that you can catch glimpses of. They are replaced with light bluish grey parts.
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    Agreed. The only reason I’m not copying Norway Bricks’ design or MOCing my own is I don’t have room for it in my display collection. The new Galaxy Explorer by itself takes up a large footprint.
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    Or maybe the pink one was a red one and a white one that got merged in a transporter accident like Tuvix in Star Trek: Voyager.
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    Completely agree. I replaced it with a light bley piece. That’s just one of a number of tweaks I’ve made.
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    I also bought the set today from a LEGO store. Looking forwards to assembling/modding it in the next few day.
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    I would vote for yours if I could but unfortunately LEGO won’t let me. I can’t participate in Ideas in any way. I could create a separate Ideas account with a new e-mail address, but that would be more trouble than it’s worth. More importantly, it feels like I would be acquiescing to LEGO’s unfair treatment of me and I’m unwilling to compromise as a matter of principle.
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    The classic helmet in blue without the simulated damage has been available for a while. It was re-issued in the Ninjago Gamer’s Market set and has been available through PAB (when it was called Bricks & Pieces) though I don’t know if it still is.
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    @R0Sch, By convention, threads that cover the same topic are combined. Otherwise, the discussion becomes messy, duplicated and hard to follow. An alternative would be to have the discussion here, but not in the other thread. I wouldn’t have a problem with that as long as there isn’t more than one thread about 10497.
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