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Offline Rhalius

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Re: Brainstorming for next round of Add-ons/DS items
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2012, 22:10:15 »
Seeing how everyone makes suggestions for old sets being reissued, lets make some suggestions for specific parts/combinations too since that makes up most of the DS catalogue.

Here's a few.

-Storage items.
A small set consisting out of various chests and barrels, all empty.

-Treasure.
There is a set like that yes, but it does not contain gold pieces oddly enough.
For this one I'd suggest two sets of gold and two sets of silver pieces being included, enough to fill a large treasure chest.
Aside from that also some cups, a crown, a vase, lamp, etc.

-Castle servants.
Set of three clickies which are generic castle servants with neutral colors.
Includes a maid, a stable boy and a herald. Accesoires can be a broom, a bucket and a scroll.

-neutral horses.
Right now there are only show horses and such in DS I believe, not horses that are suitable for historic themes.
Just a nice little batch of about five horses in different colors with neutral saddles would be good.

-Medieval armory.
Set containing about eight soldier helmets and breastplates, six neutral shields, four spears, four swords, two crossbows, two bows, four quivers with arrows, two flails, two axes and two different full sets of knight armor. (neither being the overused fat armor)


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Re: Brainstorming for next round of Add-ons/DS items
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2012, 22:28:04 »
i have that old yellow school bus - the problem with re-issuing old vehicles may be that they would not fit into the rest of the atmosphere and style of the current sets, in other words they'd look oldfashioned. I have the vehicles below and i love them BUT at this point some of them look kind of 'old' for the new city buldings etc IMO :-\ (just like real cars in real life)

I love all of those too. I agree they would look out of place with the other current offerings, but the Classic Edition theme is all about reissuing vehicles they consider "Collector's Items" from long ago.


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Re: Brainstorming for next round of Add-ons/DS items
« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2012, 01:17:42 »
I love all of those too. I agree they would look out of place with the other current offerings, but the Classic Edition theme is all about reissuing vehicles they consider "Collector's Items" from long ago.



good point!

A few years ago they started to reissue some old garbage trucks and boring s
"collector" sets - I wonder if they ever sold at all
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Re: Brainstorming for next round of Add-ons/DS items
« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2012, 01:43:16 »
good point!

A few years ago they started to reissue some old garbage trucks and boring s
"collector" sets - I wonder if they ever sold at all

It's really hard to say for sure. The Tow Truck 7296 was first released in the early 2000's and was just issued again in 2011/2012. Also the first Classic Edition ever, the Construction Truck 7325 (for the 35th Anniversary) was just issued again as 7466.

This makes me think they sold well. Because if they didn't sell well, they would have marked them down to get rid of their stock and never looked back.

The Dump Truck with Scoop 7655 has been in the DS catalog for a few years also.

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Re: Brainstorming for next round of Add-ons/DS items
« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2012, 09:30:17 »
If you look in a modern street, then you see a mix of different ages of vehicles.  Old and new style PM lorries and cars can be mixed together with no problem.

I see the DS sugegstions are, again, very much mediaeval biased; I'm sure that Geobra are really looking for a wider perspective here.
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Re: Brainstorming for next round of Add-ons/DS items
« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2012, 12:54:43 »
Maybe the

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Re: Brainstorming for next round of Add-ons/DS items
« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2012, 14:55:15 »
I see the DS sugegstions are, again, very much mediaeval biased; I'm sure that Geobra are really looking for a wider perspective here.

That's why I strongly feel that we should vote in a top five or maybe ten categories or broad themes, and then vote in one thing from each category/theme to ask for. That way everyone has a fairer chance. I think themes would be better, personally. We can ask for one medieval, one victorian, and one western thing (obviously those will be in the top), and then people who collect some other themes can have a chance to request something. We can start a thread asking for nominations of what themes we would like to choose something from, and then have a poll.

After we have decided the themes, we can take seperate nominations and polls for each theme. That way if two themes you like are voted in, you can comfortably vote for your favorites in each theme, knowing something from both themes will be requested in the end.

However, wouldn't it be better to do all this after we have seen what is coming out in the DS catalog this year? That way we'll know what we already have and what we need to keep asking for.
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Re: Brainstorming for next round of Add-ons/DS items
« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2012, 15:06:22 »
Two very good suggestions, Bonnie. 
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Re: Brainstorming for next round of Add-ons/DS items
« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2012, 16:55:15 »
I am with you bb   :)
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Re: Brainstorming for next round of Add-ons/DS items
« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2012, 18:07:35 »
thanks the the pics, Robbie! - yes, those are the vehicles i was talking about. They all look pretty simple to be 'collectors' items' - (or maybe just not of my taste :P)

Bonnie, what you suggest sounds great to me too. 8-)
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