What's your latest acquisition?

[TheLegoDr]

You are not the only one who thinks so. I am probably addicted to lego. Madoka's packages probably dwarf mine.

Here is my logic on this. For the longest time I can remember I have always been interested in medieval and fantasy settings. And I always enjoyed the military aspects, seeing huge armies of them. I was going to get into warhammer but instead I chose to get lego instead as a warhammer alternative. Since you can customize the minfigures forever. Plus no gluing/painting necessary.

I started army building a few months ago? That was when I started mass ordering. I was only going to get hundreds of dragon and lion knights from kingdoms. but someone pointed out cheap crown knights on ebay. and when I made a few orders there, I felt confident enough to buy minfigures from bricklink. And since then lots of minfigure orders. My scale mail minifigure and breastplate minfigure count is probably high enough to challenge my lion/dragon knights. Easily making my Black Knights Army a top contender for my largest armies. I probably should be making an army video of those guys!

Definitely make a video of the Black Knight army.

I was addicted to lego when I was younger, then life got in the way. I only recently got back into lego and have since become addicted again. Granted, I'm not ordering as many figures as you, but I do intend to order some in the future.

So you never dealt with legos prior to the last few months/years?

[ziljin]

Definitely make a video of the Black Knight army.

I was addicted to lego when I was younger, then life got in the way. I only recently got back into lego and have since become addicted again. Granted, I'm not ordering as many figures as you, but I do intend to order some in the future.

So you never dealt with legos prior to the last few months/years?

I only had

prior to 2009. Missing Black Falcon shield unfortunately(its like 1-2 dollars each!!!!) and one black chin guard. and the old gray swords. I had some Space sets.

I bought some sets in late 2009. and then stopped buying for a while. And I bought some in 2010. And only this year did I buy sets in bulk. And starting last month I started buying castle minifgures that aren't the new kingdoms lion/dragon knights. I hope to make up for my childhood and missing out on all the awesome castle minifigures.

EDIT: Something I find weird about the older factions is that they seem to have random legs. Unlike the later factions where the legs are uniform. The earlier ones with the same printed torso/face will have different colored legs, arms or helmets. Makes them look out of place next to the newer factions. I mean I could try to reorganize them to have a more uniform look but that would probably require a lot of time and money, better spent on getting more minfigures!!!

Edited August 20, 2011 by ziljin

[TheLegoDr]

I only had

prior to 2009. Missing Black Falcon shield unfortunately(its like 1-2 dollars each!!!!) and one black chin guard. and the old gray swords. I had some Space sets.

I bought some sets in late 2009. and then stopped buying for a while. And I bought some in 2010. And only this year did I buy sets in bulk. And starting last month I started buying castle minifgures that aren't the new kingdoms lion/dragon knights. I hope to make up for my childhood and missing out on all the awesome castle minifigures.

EDIT: Something I find weird about the older factions is that they seem to have random legs. Unlike the later factions where the legs are uniform. The earlier ones with the same printed torso/face will have different colored legs, arms or helmets. Makes them look out of place next to the newer factions. I mean I could try to reorganize them to have a more uniform look but that would probably require a lot of time and money, better spent on getting more minfigures!!!

Less uniform, but maybe more realistic? Someone said how rare it was for every soldier to have similar attire on. Maybe that is what they were going for originally. But I do remember them having many differences like that.

[ziljin]

And also different shaped and colored plumes/feathers! None of it makes any sense. Well I swapped around the feathers and plumes for my forestmen (like black feather on black tunic) but I guess I will leave the ones on the breastplate knights alone for now. It seems like they just randomly stuck parts together. I am used to the uniformity of the crown/lion/dragon knights.

[Ogre]

And also different shaped and colored plumes/feathers! None of it makes any sense. Well I swapped around the feathers and plumes for my forestmen (like black feather on black tunic) but I guess I will leave the ones on the breastplate knights alone for now. It seems like they just randomly stuck parts together. I am used to the uniformity of the crown/lion/dragon knights.

For a lot of 'plumes' it was the choice of the builder, since the plumes came attached to a sprue and you could choose which one you wanted a figure to have.

[ziljin]

For a lot of 'plumes' it was the choice of the builder, since the plumes came attached to a sprue and you could choose which one you wanted a figure to have.

Ah I see. Because I was just looking at the bricklink. Found it weird how the same torso forestmen would have like 4 different plumes/feathers and the difference is that one has a different colored hat, or one has a quiver. brown hat no quiver, brown hat with quiver, green hat no quiver, green hat with quiver would each get a different colored/shaped plume.

Right now since I got so many older castle minfigures I am not sure if I should modify them to look more organized or just try to leave it as original as possible. Or if I should swap any heads to prevent clone syndrome. My Crown/Lion/Troll/Dwarf/Dragon/Skeleton factions from 2007+ are modified to have a more organized look in terms of helmets. And for heads I swapped them around to make the clone syndrome less noticeable.

[TheLegoDr]

I think organized/uniform looks better personally, but it isn't the most realistic, but we are talking about legos here. I remember always keeping things as uniform as I could even when the random parts did come together like that. I think bricklink just has sellers randomly putting pieces together and trying to sell them. Most of the accessories you can purchase afterwards, the main figure is the goal purchase.

And I've mixed/matched the heads before to prevent clone syndrome, but at the same time that is what an army is. It is a large group of people. Individuality gets lost in the crowd, therefore, everyone is basically a clone in the grand scheme of things. So to me, the "clone syndrome" isn't that big of a deal.

But I always matched up the plumes with the right forestman when I played with them.

[ziljin]

Yea I am definitely more concerned with the printed torsos. I can swap different colored helmets later or buy some. I guess same with plumes/feathers but some of those are more expensive than the helmets!!! But I looked at the minfigure catalogs and some of the factions do have random legs/arms. Like Black knights all have different colored hips/legs. And then one minfigure has solid colored legs. At first I was like wait is this the wrong legs? But nope its correct. Maybe I will swap it out later.

[ziljin]

And another

came in. not as much as the previous one.

Obi Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, White Shogun, and 3 Dark Forestmen.

[maydayartist]

Castle

1x 7097

Kingdoms

1x 7187

1x 7188

1x 7189

PotC

1x 4193

and within the post 1x 4195

[pikappa79]

a year ago, directly from amazon.de Castle Giant Chess Set. I love it!

[K-Nut]

For my birthday (today) I got 6086, 6076, 7 shirtless Vikings, and 6 Collectible Vikings. I'm one happy camper!

[Capt. Redblade]

About a month and a half ago I got 6755 Sheriff's Lock-Up (original, not rerelease) from a store in Chilliwack. Of course, I spent almost all of what little money I had on it and some Collectible Minifigs from Series 2 and 4, so I haven't made many purchases since.

[ziljin]

a year ago, directly from amazon.de Castle Giant Chess Set. I love it!

I wish I had that chess set.

My

consists of the Collectible minfigure Series 3 Viking, Series 5 Evil Dwarf (I love it!), 2 helmets and a yellow dragon plume for my dragon master who is missing it. Hm, now I am torn. Buy more older castle minfigures or stock up on the more expensive colelctible mifnigures? Specfically the elves, and evil dwarves. Maybe Vampires too for a vampire army. I guess I should try to do both. Get like 100 old minifigures since they are around 3 dollars or less. And then some of the more expensive collectible mifnigures or other recent expensive minfigures.

[Donut]

Get like 100 old minifigures since they are around 3 dollars or less. And then some of the more expensive collectible mifnigures or other recent expensive minfigures.

Buy things on the primary market now, to avoid regrets in the future. Old stuff will still be old stuff X years down the road. The price of old castle figures does not inflate as fast as the CMF.

Edited August 25, 2011 by Donut

[ziljin]

Buy things on the primary market now, to avoid regrets in the future. Old stuff will still be old stuff X years down the road. The price of old castle figures does not inflate as fast as the CMF.

Hm for real? That stinks. =(. Well some of them seem to be not as expensive like the samurai warrior and forestman. Possibly because of higher qualities or people just prefer the classics? For elf its unique so I imagine it being more popular and less people selling them? Currently like around 40 or so CM forestmen can be bought at 5 dollars. while for elves, its only like 10 of them at 6 dollars and they don't even say if they have the accessories (oh yea elf has longbow and printed shield probably drives up the price too!)

Well just ordered 2 more evil dwarves. I guess next month I will see how many evil dwarves, elves, forestmen and whatever other CMF I can grab. Wow after shipping it would probably cost around 1000 USD to get 100 elves. =(. Not that bad really its just that 1000 USD could get like 200-300 cheaper minfigures.

Edited August 25, 2011 by ziljin

[Zeya]

7952 Kingdoms Advent Calendar 2010 for $40.54 USD, shipped from an eBay buy-it-now. The box is slightly crushed on one end but I don't care. The seller had a photo of the damage and he's got 100% feedback with like 25 sales in the past month, so I'm not worried. I'll be opening the little compartments every day, come December!

[ziljin]

So next month I will try to get some elves and some more evil dwarves. Now I wonder if its worth saving the extra 50 cents- dollar to just get the minfifgures alone and no weapon/shield. I notice some sellers just sell te mifnigure alone. But seems the shields themselves are worth like 1 dollar each, so it seems to be not worth it to say a little money per minfigure. But I am looking at all my other armies I only have a handful of shields/original weapons vs the entire armies so maybe just numbers will be fine and the ones without shields will just use some two handed weapon? Anyone here just buy the CMF elves/dwarves/vikings/samurai/forestmen and other CMF castleish minfigures alone and not get the accessories?

[Donut]

I acquired my first CMF 5 today by pulling wo Lizardman. These figs will look great in any fantasy edition factions.

Anyone here just buy the CMF elves/dwarves/vikings/samurai/forestmen and other CMF castleish minfigures alone and not get the accessories?

It's too much trouble hunting down the individual accessories. On top of that you'll have to look for another good deal - might as well buy everything together. Time is also money.

[ziljin]

I acquired my first CMF 5 today by pulling wo Lizardman. These figs will look great in any fantasy edition factions.

It's too much trouble hunting down the individual accessories. On top of that you'll have to look for another good deal - might as well buy everything together. Time is also money.

I want to get an army of lizardmen but it has a human face?

I meant just buy the CMF and forget about the accessories. For example have 10 elves with bows and shields, and just 10 elves. and then mix them up like 10 elves using bows, and the 10 shields go with the other 10 elves and you equip them with spears or swords. That is what I meant. Or would you prefer all your elves have shields regardless of what weapon you gave them?

Edited August 26, 2011 by ziljin

[Donut]

I want to get an army of lizardmen but it has a human face?

I meant just buy the CMF and forget about the accessories. For example have 10 elves with bows and shields, and just 10 elves. and then mix them up like 10 elves using bows, and the 10 shields go with the other 10 elves and you equip them with spears or swords. That is what I meant. Or would you prefer all your elves have shields regardless of what weapon you gave them?

I am definitely going to remove the face and maybe add a black or red minifig head.

I prefer to have my figures complete with accessories, but you're free to do whatever you want. In my previous post, I was saying if you are going to use the shield or bow anyways, just buy the complete figure (to save time).

[ziljin]

I am definitely going to remove the face and maybe add a black or red minifig head.

I prefer to have my figures complete with accessories, but you're free to do whatever you want. In my previous post, I was saying if you are going to use the shield or bow anyways, just buy the complete figure (to save time).

well right now around 20-50 (just guessing) elves are around 7 dollars or less, some with accessories some without. And then after that there are a lot of elves at 8 dollars and higher. So it would be cheaper to just buy the sub 7 dollars ones regardless of accessories to save money. Less accessories but that should reduce clone syndrome of everyone using the same gear. But that might just be my logic attempting to justify buying the accessory-less minfigures. Because bottom line I think the minfigures are more important. Because I already have like 600 castle minfigures, but only like 50-100 shields. Going by my current armies I should be fine without the extra elf shields. I guess only time will tell what I decide to do.

I will obviously go for the elves with accessories first and then see what happens. Someone said they will probably increase in price later on too. So I should decide fast!

[buddy]

Within the last week, I have bought 7 Series 5 Gladiators and 6 Series 5 Evil Dwarfs. These latest purchases bring my totals to 15 S5 Gladiators and 11 S5 Evil Dwarfs.

~buddy~

[K-Nut]

Got to TRU and got another evil Dwarf. That brings my grand army up to 2. My Castle world is about to get a whole lot bloodier.

[Bearded Castle Guy]

I've just received about 30 used castle 'figs from an online purchase. Some have accessories, some don't. Used means a few have GLUE in their feet... and the remains of cardboard or a thin corkboard on the bottom of that (the pics failed to show that). At least it looks like HOT glue which should be relatively easy to remove given it's fairly soft as glues go once dried (and they are part of the 'rabble' anyways. It appears like it's only 2 with the glue so that'll be easy to deal with later.

Five Black Falcons (with shields).

Three Crusaders (Four shields).

Five Dragon Masters (Two shields).

Nine asst generic Armored torso's (though one is obviously Fright knight in origin).

Two Orcs.

One Fright Knight.

Other Assorted rabble. In said rabble there is a Princess Storm Torso, the arms have been switched out at some point tho.

Five black Bullet helms as well :)

Not bad all at under $2.45 per 'fig on average (inc shipping).