tindwcel

Entry 7 - 3 points Entry 2 - 2 points Entry 8 - 1 point

There was some sort of glitch the day I joined. I was briefly member 300, and then very soon somehow became number 301, hence my title :) I'm not complaining :) Congrats to EB and to "Lucky 10000" whoever that is!

3 old brown 2 new brown 1 red 1 light grey 1 dark blue

Good Review. Nice Pictures. As for the actual fortress... I'd have dinged it a couple of points for 1) The clumsy drawbridge string. 2) The downside of the hinged walls is that the whole model becomes a bit fragile.

My figs do not seem to fit on the bed! Which way round should they go ?

I'd caution against taking the legs off unless you feel you really have to. If you have to use too much force then you run a very real risk of the pegs on the hips breaking :( The other downside is that once you get them back on they are never as tight as they were. I've got some legs that are so loose that any fig using them can barely stand up straight.

I'm not voting, because I only have a few of the small sets, of which my favourite is; 6712 - Sheriff's Showdown Why? Because of the BIG barrel included. I was going to include this set as an answer to the what-non-pirate-sets-are-good-for-pirates question because of that barrel.

My heart said to vote Castle, but... but I voted Pirate Reasons: 1) The sadness I feel when I look at KK2 :( 2) The puzzlement I felt after completing The Witches Magic Manor (6087) (What in tarnation is it supposed to be? )

That's the first thing I thought of soon as I saw this. Second was "Now I know what I'll be getting for christmas" :). Last years combo was well priced so I'd expect this one to be too. Having only seen the pictures, the Castle-thing looks pretty good, but the Boat-thing looks just a little bland.

On the down side ( there HAS to be down side ), I see they use those horrid KK2 swords >:(

Those 4219s are only part of a garage door. You need quite a few of them to make one. I guess that someone into Town, or who happened to own a Fire Station or Police Station, would be familiar with them, but to someone like me, who buys mainly used, and usually only if I can see Castle or Pirate minifig, or a horse, in the bag, they were a bit of a mystery.

Ahem! Sorry, I meant... http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/4219

Another one for the "We only know it's Lego because Peeron and Bricklink say so" category is this: http://www.peeron.com/pics/inv/parts/4219 It took me ages to work out what they were when I first found them in joblots. I still don't have a use for them.

I keep the Megabloks and other copies as a sort of black museum or rogues gallery. Non-lego bricks are pretty easy to identify, but I usually end up with a load of non-brick plastic parts, most of which are broken bits of other toys completely, but some of which might be specialist parts, like unknown minifig tools, or maybe technic parts, or vehicle axles.

doh! I meant: It could be on the wheel ! Where's the logo on sloping roof bricks?