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12:15 AM
| Name of Model: Prison Castle | | Created by: Castle Element (website in Japanese) | | Found at: http://home.att.ne.jp/apple/hachi/ce_ga_le27a.htm | Details:
 I don't know if it's just me or not, but the text on this page is showing up as gibberish instead of Japanese text (is there more than one Japanese character set?)
Anyway - this is another spectacular castle. The sculpted outside and towering walls are the most eye-catching, but there's some great detail here with minifigs posed as both guards and prisoners. The mix of trees is great too, although I can't help but feel jealous when I see those older trees that you can't buy anymore used in a great model. Closer inspection reveals careful use of mottled textures within the sculpted section to show undergrowth - and then there's the little "windows" near the top which are actually backwards studs-not-on-top 1x1 bricks. Then there's the chain-attached drawbridge, which opens directly to a prison gate. There's tons of great stuff inside, too - carefully placed ghosts and skeletons, full furnishings, detailed jail cells - and of course, plenty of hinges to allow for easy viewing of the inside. As if all of that wasn't enough, the model even features a punchline - the final photo is a pair of Wolfpack Renegades (for those of you who weren't LEGO Castle fans in the early 90s, they are villains that live in the wilderness but aren't Forestmen) - tools in hand - plotting a break-in to free some of their cohorts. |
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Dan
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3:00 AM
| Name of Model: Prison Wheeler | | Created by: schlimps | | Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=239451 | Details:
 OK, so by now, most LEGO castles of any real size of some sort of jail or prison in them. You have to do something with the enemies you catch, after all. What, though, should you do if you want to move your captives to another castle, or use them to bargain with another kingdom? You put them in a little "prison wheeler" like this one. Note that the prison bars are really round fence parts (circa 1996), and that some Technic parts hold the jail cell in place. There is, of course, a reason for this cell to be very round and held up by Technic parts - it actually works as a prisoner-sized hamster wheel. If you look closely, you'll notice the clever use of a belt and a crown gear mechanism to make the prisoners spin when the cart rolls forward. Let's just go with the idea that it is a hamster-wheel sort of thing and not an instrument of torture, because torture is wrong and stuff, and you kids shouldn't be into that sort of thing.
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