popkids Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 My own choices would be: minstrels with mediaeval instruments, heralds for the various factions, Teutonic Knights with barding and flags to match, but above all, a Lego jester X-D Quote
Athos Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 Oooh. I like the idea of musical instruments. I'd also like to see more animals, either farm animals for peasants or wild animals for the nobles to hunt. And more non-military buildings would be nice, like a bakery or a mill. Steve Quote
Jipay Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 well more peasants of course ! They are so rare... And why not create a cow or a sheep to go with him ? After all, some video games have a lot of success with this type of activities (ie harvest moon) Quote
Lost Viking Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 I would love LEGO to make a city line but with castle. So you would get peasent houses, stores, a castle that focuses on the actual castle not just catapults and bull crap like that. Though I would love to see historically accurate catapults. Quote
xwingyoda Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 I am fed up with TLC for letting out "normal life" in their sets (knights, castles, police stations, police officers... see what I mean ;-) ) This Phenomenon, off course applied to CC and this is annoying !! Great I have a knight army but what for ? What are the knights defending apart a small castle ?? Where are the shops, stables, markets, houses, farms with veggies and animals... wives, menestrels ?? Thats what I want to see and have !! (like in City mind you !!) Oh well, the torture chamber of the outcomming castle (IF in the final version keeps it) really represents a shift in TLC's policy, so who knows what the future holds ;-) Maybe real life will start to penetrate the market !! *yoda* Quote
Lost Viking Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 I am fed up with TLC for letting out "normal life" in their sets (knights, castles, police stations, police officers... see what I mean ;-) )This Phenomenon, off course applied to CC and this is annoying !! Great I have a knight army but what for ? What are the knights defending apart a small castle ?? Where are the shops, stables, markets, houses, farms with veggies and animals... wives, menestrels ?? Thats what I want to see and have !! (like in City mind you !!) Oh well, the torture chamber of the outcomming castle (IF in the final version keeps it) really represents a shift in TLC's policy, so who knows what the future holds ;-) Maybe real life will start to penetrate the market !! *yoda* Yes, I fully concur! Quote
Jacob C. Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 Well, it looks like we all agree. Lego needs to start making sets focusing on medieval life in general. Peasants, minstrels, farmer, fisherman, soothsayer, goat herder, theif, gypsies, hunter, artist, boat builder, stable owner, royal families, etc...are all great ideas. It'd be great if Lego released a line of like 5 or 6 sets representing medieval life and the ability for all the sets to be connected to one another, making one big medieval town! That'd be awesome! Quote
Jipay Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 Well they started this by including all the small shops that were needed for the knights. But unfortunatly they stopped the whole thing. You can thank the marketing and the market researches on kids for not having those... Quote
xwingyoda Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 and who do we thank for exagerated prices and horrible price conversions ?? *yoda* Quote
Jipay Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 I guess you would have to thank their budgeterian team who is not capable of making the right calculations Quote
JoeMI6 Posted June 3, 2006 Posted June 3, 2006 I would love to be able to pick up a classic military castle with some great figs and weaponery, with some nice playable features, such as a dragon's cage or something. But I don't know whether Dragon's are really CC... Quote
Chuck Posted June 5, 2006 Posted June 5, 2006 and who do we thank for exagerated prices and horrible price conversions ?? *yoda* The snot-nosed punks who need huge, <insert that tiresome argument> peices to build castles?? -l2k- Quote
Jipay Posted June 5, 2006 Posted June 5, 2006 Well you mean the kids then... It seems they can't figure out what to do with their 10 fingers. So puting bricks together is out of question ! Quote
Norro Posted June 6, 2006 Posted June 6, 2006 Well, unsurprisingly, I am also for some medieval town structures, especially with animals. I also think research/product testing should be delegated to those who spend the most time in lego isles listening to people... poor Lego enthusiasts like myself, who are 'just looking' again... On the currency eexchange issue, I would assume it also has to do with the bulk efficiency of selling in the States. Target/TRUS will take another 30 of each set for each store, as opposed to the small retail model of Europe. Shop at Home then has to follow the store set price patterns in each area... God Bless, Nathan Quote
Jipay Posted June 7, 2006 Posted June 7, 2006 I think you have a REALLY biaised (and american) way of seing the toy market in Europe. COntrarely to what most of you guys think overseas, all our shop structures are completly concentrated. We only have big shops, supermarkets and hypermarkets (that don't exist in the states). Small shops died years ago. And surprisingely, Toy's R Us managed to cross the ocean ! So definitly not anything to do with that ! Quote
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