{"id":466,"date":"2006-04-16T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/16\/on-saving-lego-castle\/"},"modified":"2017-04-23T19:03:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T00:03:22","slug":"on-saving-lego-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/16\/on-saving-lego-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"On Saving Lego Castle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1536\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/16\/on-saving-lego-castle\/852272-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/852272-1.png\" data-orig-size=\"560,380\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"852272-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/852272-1-300x204.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/852272-1.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1536 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/852272-1-300x204.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/852272-1-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/852272-1.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I think Lego was lucky to tap into the Star Wars collector&#8217;s market&#8230; Cheap robots has been another market the Lego Group have been able to tap into&#8230; But here&#8217;s my idea&#8230; to &#8220;save&#8221; casle &#8212; and I say this tongue in cheekly &#8212; there are thousands of people spending hundres of millions of dollars on World of Warcraft minitures armies&#8230; some have found that it&#8217;s cheaper to build armies in Lego. I say release castle minifig packs again, marketed with these people in line&#8230; let the product line have Orcs, Goblins, bring back the Harry Potter Ogre, Elves, Dwarfs&#8230; not something that fans have pieced together from different sets over time, but themed this way&#8230; Give each minifig a 4&#215;4 green plate to stand on (or a 4&#215;6 plate if the minifig is mounted on a horse), different heads, torsos, legs, at least 1 to 2 different weapon for each minifig, a few helmets, shields, armor&#8230; Have a baddies pack, base on the same idea&#8230; They&#8217;ll sell.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Update<\/span>: \u00a0TLG has done this to some extent with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricklink.com\/catalogItem.asp?S=852271-1\">Battle Pack Knights<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricklink.com\/catalogItem.asp?S=852272-1\">Battle Pack Skeletons<\/a>. \u00a0All they need now are battle pack dwarves, orcs, and trolls. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=brickbuildr\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Lego was lucky to tap into the Star Wars collector&#8217;s market&#8230; Cheap robots has been another market the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,10,254,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castle","category-lego","category-rant","category-tlg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/852272-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YMsl-7w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/1537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}