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Clearing out my camera roll 9896/?

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Fiskars 9896 Telescoping Rotary Cultivator, 40 to 60-Inch

Fiskars 9896 Telescoping Rotary Cultivator, 40 to 60-Inch

Fiskars 9896 Telescoping Rotary Cultivator, 40 to 60-Inch

Ideal for loosening soil, removing weeds and aerating soil and mulch

19-gauge steel shaft provides durability that far outlasts wood-handled tools and won’t flex like fiberglass

Six rust-proof aluminum cultivating wheels power through tough soil

Removable center wheels make it easy to cultivate around seedling row

Length: 40-60 inches

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9896 Dragons Tower (and observations on Draigar architecture)

Man, this set was a pain to find.  I’d forgotten its name, so I kept Googling phrases like “draigar castle” and “draigar fortress” and uncovering only 9890 Warriors Fortress and various Draigar fortresses from later years.  It’s called Dragons Tower?  That’s not a tower!  That’s, like, two towers, minimum!

Anyway, yes, Dragons Tower.  Some sources give its name as “Dragon’s Tower” or “Dragon Tower” (including the Mega Bloks website), but the box says “Dragons Tower” without an apostrophe, so that’s what we’re going to call it.  I assume that the dragons of Dragons Tower are the carved stone dragon heads that line the battlements.  Or maybe it was built at a spot where many dragons died—or maybe it was built by dragons, though I doubt it.

9896 Dragons Tower was a limited edition set, exclusive to Toys R Us and packaged in a box that at least appeared to be made of molded metal.  It features fourteen Draigar warriors along with a single-headed dragon, gold of scale, black of wing, and red of claw, spine, and tooth.  As can be seen in the lower leftmost image, the names of the warriors and dragon are listed on the interior of the packaging.  Unfortunately, I can’t find a higher resolution image of that part of the packaging, so I have no idea what those names are (and I’m not going to buy a set that would cost me at least $65 just so I can see the characters’ names—not immediately, anyway).  If any of you own this set, please message me with a high-resolution photograph of that part of the packaging, or at least a list of the names printed thereon.

The Dragons Tower seems to be a pretty standard example of Warfang-Valtheran (or early Draigar) architecture.  It features a dragon’s-head gate of molded gold, a typical blocky structure, and Valtheran-style protruding battlements.  Before the tower stands a symbolic “gate” of the kind seen in 9881 Battle Gate.  Does this indicate that the early Draigar did indeed have the architectural know-how to create such gates?  Or was this gate present long before the construction of the Dragons Tower—or were they both present long before the Warfang-Valtheran war?  Who knows?  Here’s my headcanon: the symbolic “gates” are ancient sacred sites, dating back to the time before the war, when dragons and humans coexisted peacefully on Terraurgen.  They were constructed by the dragons themselves, or else by humans working in conjunction with dragons.  The original Dragons Tower was constructed during this time as well, though not as long ago as the gate in front of it was constructed.  It fell into ruin long ago, but when the war ended, Padraig commanded that a new Dragons Tower be built in the same location, to serve as his fortress and the center of the new Draigar nation’s capital.

Here’s something I just noticed about Warfang-Valtheran/Draigar architecture:  There is a reoccurring jagged “stair-steps” motif.

Actually, this doesn’t seem to exist in 9886 Sorcerer’s Lair, which either indicates that Draigar architecture is much more influenced by Valtheran architecture than by Warfang (which may in turn imply that the Valtheran had more power than the Warfang in the newly formed Draigar nation...or might just imply that the Valtheran had more experience building large structures), or lends support to the “Sorcerer’s Lair is a very old structure that was built by neither the Warfang nor the Valtheran, but some ancestral culture” theory.

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Lakers lose 3rd straight, 98-96, as Pacers' Hibbert scores 18 points despite a …

LOS ANGELES — Roy Hibbert scored eight of his 18 points in the fourth quarter playing with a broken nose, and five of his teammates also scored in double figures to help the Indiana Pacers beat the Los Angeles Lakers 98-96 on Sunday night. Kobe Bryant scored 33 points for the Lakers, but missed what [...] http://dlvr.it/16j0VY