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  1. DaleDVM
    What time of day do announcements like this get made? Denmark is 7 hours ahead of Chicago so I am guessing I will get the news in the early morning hours. Perhaps I can plan breakfast with my fellow castle nerds at Brickworld so we can discuss the news?
  2. DaleDVM
    I shall then be traveling to a couple of LEGO stores on the 15th as I drive my way to Brickworld. I expect I will have 4 of the hideouts before the day is done. I am so excited. The hype for the Lion Castle continues...
  3. DaleDVM
    I can't wait to see "you all" in Chicago! ya'll? I guess to a Canadian, Chicago seems like you are traveling to the deep south, eh. Simon, I question your knowledge of hard rock, but as a nod to your MOCing godliness, I added a piece of Dark Blue, just for you. I will treat all of ToroLUG to pizza if you can point that piece out to me. I was sad to hear Bricks in the Six has to wait to 2023. However, I sooo look forward to my next trip to Toronto, where I am certain you will guide me to Toronto's culinary delights! I extend many thanks to you Si-MOCs. As always, you are too kind! Only a few days left everyone. Bring your appetites, and all of the LEGO you can fit in your vehicles!
  4. DaleDVM
    Does anyone know if the forestman hideout is available for purchases online, in LEGO stores, or both?
  5. DaleDVM
    That would be me as well. Bring it on. My wallet grew fat over the last 8-9 years and my LEGO spending was minimal. The LEGO store owners were wondering what happened to me. Except for the insane amount of money I spent on minifigs last year (because I just couldn't wait for a castle offering any longer). My yearly budget for LEGO has far exceeded anything I desired to buy. Slowly... the blacksmith, creator castle, and now the ultimate castle set! I will be spending for the foreseeable future on castle. Also... I shall catch up on purchasing my modular buildings so that each one will get me a free forestman hideout.
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    I see Ben has turned you to the dark side... Bring your catwoman build. She turns me on!
  7. DaleDVM
    Thank you Shroffy. I am glad your kids enjoyed it. Hopefully I can meet you all in person some day. Video and pictures never seem to capture how beautiful LEGO displays are. Thanks, Zoth. We could chat for hours about minifigs. I luckily have over 10,000 medieval/fantasy figs and a huge variety as well. It helps that I am a long time collector, (that means I am old) and I was able to get a lot of the classic castle figs before prices for them increased. I look forward to seeing what you end up building. That interview was just last fall. And like you family, other hobbies, etc. get in the way of building time. Since then, I have only been working on improving some stuff from the original build. There are so many new parts that have been introduced since I started building this creation. I want to incorporate many of them into it. Several new plant parts, "brick" bricks, and a ton of fancy parts used for better snot connections have come out since I first built this. For instance all of the tile work on the castle was accomplished with headlight bricks. It really would have been handy to have the 1x1 or 1x2 bricks with stud(s) on 1 side back then. One thing about really large creations like Goldcrest... just maintaining and/or upgrading something like this takes a long time and yet those upgrades are barely noticeable because you are only upgrading a small percentage of the overall display. I decided to finish/upgrade the old display to a certain standard before I expand any more. I am also working on making my trees more sturdy so I don't spend so much time repairing them at each show. But I am closing in on the upgrades being complete. Finally, I also decided to add to the length of the display (it will be 30 ft long) before doubling the width so any new building in the last year has gone into that new "5 feet longer" section. I think I need more serf/peasant or countryside/farmland outside the city walls to give the display better balance (city/countryside ratio). So in reality Goldcrest will be 140% bigger when it is totally complete. Back on topic. If the new castle goes from $350 to $450 that is an insane cost increase in one go. There are a lot of companies that are using the recent inflation crisis as an excuse to raise their own prices drastically. From what I know about TLG, I am not surprised that they are jumping on the bandwagon.
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    Greeting everyone! For all of you Eurobricks folks that are coming to Brickworld Chicago this year, I want to welcome you properly. Thus, I extend an invite to the Eurobricks pizza party that occurs Saturday evening after the public hours of displaying. Please come visit me at my large castle display called Goldcrest and introduce (reintroduce) yourself. Let me know what kind of pizza you desire by 3 PM on Saturday as I order at that time. I make sure to order a couple of Chicago deep dish slices for everyone attending along with garlic bread, etc. If you can eat more than that I will be impressed as many people can't finish more than one slice! This is all for the low, low, zero inflation cost of $5 USD. Make sure to get yourself something to drink for dinner as the concessions stands close by the time the pizza arrives, which is around 4:30 ish PM on Saturday. I hear that there is a lot of LEGO coming to Chicago this year! I am really excited to see what people have been up to while sequestered in their homes! Let the hype begin. See you all very soon.
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    I just keep adding/improving this MOC.
  10. DaleDVM
    I have few hundred bullet helms. Never had one break. However, I also started collecting as a young adult, so... my helmets are either on a minifig or in a container safe. I am careful and not representative of what a kid might do with their Lego. I definitely have had a hard time removing the bullet helm and peasant hood from the heads and always make sure to align the face with the helmet/hood opening before I connect the two. Because realigning them is really not an option. I will be at Brickworld Chicago when they do the reveal at LEGOcon. So I guess I will see the reveal on my phone.
  11. DaleDVM
    I would be surprised if they did not reveal it at LEGO Con. I also would expect some sort of surprise for AFOLs beyond what promobricks has disclosed about this castle. TLG will want to make a big splash with this anniversary set! Thanks for responding to "Follows Closely", "Agent Kallus". You got it right. I started collecting castle very early on and have about 10,000 medieval/fantasy figures at this point. However, the number of non-military figs is only around 400 or so. I bought a lot of peasants back when they were cheaper. Also that is including all of the Jedi, and other medieval adjacent torsos I have collected over time. Anything that looks like a peasant/civilian torso is relatively expensive at this time.
  12. DaleDVM
    Three days late on the news and much to discuss. I was truly hoping as I read about the forestman hideout that they would make the tree in brown this time. The original is one of my favorite sets of all time, but implemented in brown would make it literally perfect! It still looks good though. I am glad I delayed purchase of a few of the modular buildings so I can get a few of these sets as free with purchase. The description of the castle sounds good to me. I look forward to the barding as well as horses in rarer colors. 20 figs is an appropriate number. A lot of us longtime collectors agree, civilians are the real prize in this set, and are the rarest medieval figs to come by. I will buy the set in multiples, but I really hope I can get some of these civilian figs in much greater quantities from Bricks and Pieces because 3-6 of the civilian figs would never be enough to fill my MOCs. I am hoping the tudor areas on the castle are white and not yellow. Also hoping the trees have brown bark and not black the way they are drawn on the castle illustration. Looking forward to official photos.
  13. DaleDVM
    I saw the Northman back to back with the new Dr. Strange movie... And now I know what it is like to drop acid!!! I am not a fan of these Bricklink designer program sets. When sets are sold like concert tickets and are gone in a few minutes, it just makes me angry.
  14. DaleDVM
    People all over the world join hands... Start a hype train, hype train.
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    It is hard for me to make a faction out of just a minifig torso. AND that is assuming I can get my hands on 20 or more of these figs. This is especially true when the sigil is found on the back of the minifig. They need some shields or banners to signify who they are and make them identifiable from the front when I assemble them into units. If I was able to get enough of these figs, "White falcons" is not a name for this faction I find attractive at all. White Eagle, Osprey, Hawks, or birds of prey would be better IMHO. I suppose the white bird from the cape would be easy enough to print out onto some sort of sticker and applied to a flag/banner. However, being a purist, I have never done that in the past. In fact, I have never really had to... as most of the past CMFs have come with their own shields that clearly signify what faction they belong to.
  16. DaleDVM
    I am a little skeptical of this torso. It almost looks like there is a raised edge (sticker) on the top left corner of the back of the torso. If it is real, I would make this a separate faction from the black falcons. (That is... if I could get enough of them) I like my factions to match even if that is not historically correct.
  17. DaleDVM
    Fantastic work! The mage priest is perfect and recognizable. The use of the bean stalk piece for the tails is awesome!
  18. DaleDVM
    The demand for "castle" anything is insanely high right now. I have been displaying at AFOL conventions and LEGO shows for 15 years now. Never have I gotten so many comments/questions from the public and even hardcore LEGO fans about the best way to obtain medieval parts/figs.
  19. DaleDVM
    I got about 20 of the shields last year with BAM here at the LEGO stores in my area. I built the minis with that same dark green chainmail torso in the photo and at that time there were matching dark green legs too. I am surprised those are still in TLGs inventory of parts. Concerning the raised baseplates... Since I own multiple copies of every raised baseplate ever made for castle sets, I can tell you owning them is IMHO overrated. Not many AFOLs build with them and they don't look good with detailed MOCs of todays standards sitting on them. However, for storage, most of them are the same shape and stack neatly together so as not to take up too much space. I would not sell them separately since when I shuffle off of this earth, my family can sell the 100% complete castle sets for a much better price. Someday, someone with a lot of money could own the entire LEGO castle collection several times over in one huge purchase... Raised baseplates, discolored bricks, minifigs and all...
  20. DaleDVM
    I have my sigfig photo against the cool "canyon" raised baseplate that came with the Dark Forest Fortress set. It is expensive as hell on Bricklink. I loved the old sets on the raised baseplates. I found it interesting how the designers used them to great effect in their castle builds. However, the raised baseplate's time has passed IMHO and if I never see them again that is a good thing. If we have to wait another 3 months for photos of this set, I think I may go mad with anticipation... I know it is no longer likely or TLG policy to do so... But I would love if they revealed this set at Brickworld Chicago. They revealed the medieval market village at BW Chicago many years ago. It is an awesome event!
  21. DaleDVM
    TBH if it is a 3-in-1 set, with the same part selection that goes into those sets... I will flip some tables and openly rebel against TLG! That would likely send me into a dark age. 9 years with no castle theme has been enough for me... My patience has worn thin and I need some new actual castle parts. All of the licensed sets have really really turned me off. No more imagination necessary. Lets just copy licensed content from other companies or steal IDEAs from our fans. It breaks my heart when kids at LEGO shows see my castle display, and all of the minifigs, and then ask me where they can get castle sets/figs. All I can say is write to TLG and express your desires because the last castle set came out before they were born. I am a LEGO castle fan. All of my purchases including non-castle purchases are geared towards MOCing castle scenes. While I am impressed by the non licensed sets TLG releases, it just is not where my interests are and they are few and far between.
  22. DaleDVM
    fractions will never show up on autocorrect because it is a real word... They will have at least a second faction in the set as someone to fight against. At the very least a jousting opponent for the lion knight. I am really hoping for a faction other than the black falcons. Perhaps even two if some forestmen are included. drool... Hey... A guy can dream!
  23. DaleDVM
    It isn't going to happen but, I wouldn't care if they gave us 8 different soldier factions. If they appear on B&P I can get several large factions rolling. What I do not want is 10+ of the minifigs to have the same lion/falcon torso. I do understand wanting more in the way of non-soldiers/civilians. That is my biggest desire as well. I am hoping for at least 2 different non-noble female torsos/skirt. Peasant figs are rare and female peasant figs are even worse. The percentage of Kings and Queens to peasantry released over the history of castle is understandably way out of whack. I just hope this set will give us more "commoner" options. I love the idea of another different musician...
  24. DaleDVM
    Unless demand is off the charts for the recent castle sets and the 90th anniversary castle I would imagine we might get a creator/ideas set once every 2-3 years. Thinking we are going to get one annually is wishful thinking IMHO. There are other themes to consider in those offerings. As much as I like the blacksmith and 3 in 1 castle, they are not even close to a castle theme for me. Only one faction was represented, with little heraldry or new molds. If my memory serves me... we got a new soldier shield, torso, and legs. Also a pair of somewhat useful civilian torsos/legs and a recolor of the horse and that is all I can remember? The armor, swords, helmets, etc. are useful, as are the bricks which are good colors for MOCing with. But none of that was new or particularly hard to get outside of $100 and $150 sets. As for the sets buildings themselves, I can build castle MOCs all day long out of the common parts we get from other sets. I have said this before and I will say it again. My desire for a castle theme is driven by the unique "castley" parts found in those sets that can't be obtained in any other sets TLG sells. Without those parts I am having to use/re-use my old barding, heraldry, factions, peasants, minifig accessories in my MOCs. I really look forward to all of the new printings, molds, and any recolors the 90th anniversary set has to offer. Those are the truly precious bits for me! I will almost certainly buy in multiples. I also hope that a decent number of the new parts will be available on B&P so I can get a lot of them to populate my Kingdoms. I am so excited and hope TLG does this set justice. I think they will.
  25. DaleDVM
    So... How does the 90th anniversary set affect a castle theme going forward? Does it make it more or less likely? Or does it depend on sales?
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