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  1. SirBlake
    I think we can all agree on two things: 1: prints are better than stickers 2: it’s too soon to get our panties in a twist over inconclusive preliminary photos.
  2. SirBlake
    Wow! What an amazing MOC. Super cool techniques, but the final product is just beautiful. I get Elder Scrolls Oblivion vibes from this.
  3. SirBlake
    Has anyone noticed how well the CMF king and queen would work with this? They keep calling the minifig in this set “the lady” of the castle. These two will probably end up being her parents on my shelf.
  4. SirBlake
    Ah, thanks for the education. I looked it up on BL before posting and failed to find it.
  5. SirBlake
    Ok, so is you or anybody else crying about it on a Lego forum going to change anything? I don’t think so. I recently got myself into a similar discussion (one I bet you and I would be on the same side of), and it accomplished nothing. Please, learn from my mistake, and let’s not bog things down by p!ssing in the wind. On another note, anybody else see the black sword that the Black Falcon knight is holding? That looks to be a new thing, regardless of which longsword mold it is. Reminds me of 6041 Armor Shop and it’s unicorn short sword. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6041-1#T=S&O={"iconly":0}
  6. SirBlake
    Can we please leave identity politics out of this and focus on what is most certainly one of the best sets ever offered? Thanks. Chiming in on the shield conversation, I hope it will be easy to obtain more. My whole collection consistently features footmen/guards holding a shield. BaP made that relatively easy last year with the Black Falcons. Fingers crossed.
  7. SirBlake
    I’m right there with you. Sonare are those rounded corner pieces on the crenellations new elements, or have I just missed that part somehow?
  8. SirBlake
    YES! Those classic shields as decoration are fantastic. So many details to this. Very happy there’s horse boarding too.
  9. SirBlake
    I knew it folded! So awesome! It’s better than I could have hoped! High resolution pics are hitting Instagram already. Can’t wait to pour over the details.
  10. SirBlake
    I'm impressed by the info lock-down they've managed on this too. Except I will be actively scouring any place that might leak info. The sooner I see this castle, the better. :) Instagram is usually the best place to start, but we'll see.
  11. SirBlake
    I guess it just feels weird because the selections seem pretty arbitrary.
  12. SirBlake
    Well that’s cool! I wouldn’t mind having that file.
  13. SirBlake
    I get all of that on a philosophical level, but when it comes down to where I put my Lego $, I prefer molded. Animals/creatures at a minifig are just better to look at for me. Not saying it’s a better opinion than any other. My OG Hungarian Horntail is a really cool artifact. The best brick-built dragon I have is just a nice build.
  14. SirBlake
    Isn’t that weird? I don’t make it to the Lego store very often, but when I do, there’s usually something strange like that. The series 4 surfer girl stuck around here in the BaM for years.
  15. SirBlake
    Thanks for doing me that courtesy, but if you'll re-read my post, I was speaking to the eagle feather in general, as were you in the post I was responding to (at least partially). I'll concede that there may be the germ of a false equivalency there, but it was a quickly-pulled comparison to make a point, not an effort to score in a structured debate. I disagree with the simplicity you are assigning to some sort of cultural approval process. I think that would be vastly more complex, and rife with potential pitfalls. That being said, how would we even know if there were some effort on TLG's part to do exactly that? Does any non-white European minifig have to come with a press release? I believe this is a very important note by you that does a good job of pointing out the core of the problem: “this could be a problem if the right steps weren’t taken while making it, and that’s why some people might have a knee jerk reaction to thinking it’s a bad idea” Must we be beholden to knee jerk reactions? Nobody in this conversation can point to any instance of any Native American or representative organization taking umbrage with this minifig. Instead it's just fuel for culture war, instead of appreciating different cultures on their own merits. For the sake of this topic, I'm going to end my participation in this here. I should know better. Keyboard battles rarely change minds.
  16. SirBlake
    I did not say the culture is extinct. I was pretty clear about that, and even used European knights as an example of what I was talking about. So that point is null and void. I think there is a distinct difference between a mascot like Chief Wahoo and a historically based minifig. Representation and appropriation is not the same thing. Sure, eagle feathers have a transcendent meaning to some tribes, but a lot of things have spiritual meaning to a lot of people. Wine and bread are a symbol of Christ for Catholics. Does that mean that TLG needs the Pope’s approval to reference those things? What you are proposing is the equivalent to the medicine being worse than the disease. Two likely outcomes of TLG having to turn themselves into cultural diplomats are that either it makes an unnecessary political quagmire for them to navigate, possibly thrusting them into the news cycle for more dumb debates like this one in the hopes of actually building consensus among numerous tribes and organizations, or they look at the time and cost involved and decide it’s not worth it, and entire cultures are ignored in the product line. Do you hear the AIS or any of the other dozens of organizations crying about this or any other minifigure? I don’t. I do however recall going to a Native American museum in Oklahoma in the 90’s, and they had western Lego sets in the gift shop.
  17. SirBlake
    This is so ridiculous, I don’t even know where to start. This “sacred garb” you speak of could also be identified as “something people wore in history”, and not just in a religious or ceremonial context. The people who’s knowledge and support you seek are not around to ask, in the same way that there are no armored knights around to ask for approval because the present day culture has moved on as far as how they dress. I’m about as politically neutral as they come, but calling this “problematic” is a ludicrous example of virtue signaling. Following this “logic” to its inevitable conclusion would lead to every representation of any person being a shapeless androgynous blob with no culture to speak of. Sorry for the rant, and it’s surely nothing personal. If it were about the representation of Pacific Islanders or Samurai or something similar that I don’t have personal connection to, I’d probably have stayed out of it, but in this instance, it’s part of my culture, and I clearly have opinions, lol.
  18. SirBlake
    Excellent. Thank you!
  19. SirBlake
    Nice! Thanks for the pic. Looking forward to having both of these side by side. Edit: any way you can take a pic of the new/old shields next to each other?
  20. SirBlake
    How? It’s a pretty accurate representation of traditional Native American dress.
  21. SirBlake
    Generally speaking, so am I. Brick built can be fun (Ninjago Skeletal Dragon), but given the choice, I’d go molded pretty much every time.
  22. SirBlake
    There’s one (brick built) in the same set with a 19 inch wingspan. Viewable on Instagram.
  23. SirBlake
    What a treat! I’ve seen this kind of reimagining before, but never done quite so well. Nice work.
  24. SirBlake
    Well, I threatened to skip it on general principle. Stoopid TLG making stuff I want and making me jump through hoops to get it. Said I got the little Aston Martin too. Didn’t know they’d send two GWP in one order.
  25. SirBlake
    Yeah I just found a video showing the back. Cool that this one is done right.
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