SirSven7

any little ship is always a winner in my book, its a shame its all in black cause I would like to build me one too and its a little hard to see how it goes togther, but never mind , great work

This is a brilliant build, I have a load of tan bricks I never use (left over from you adventurer days with jonney thunder) I will definatly be adding them to my walls now. Great job

such a wonderful built moc, I love how you see him both happy and then sad (silly man, he went too close to the sun) a sun made from tridents! Genious

If only the real red beard runner had been that good, really nice build I love how you have given the captian a cabin (something he never had in the orignal build ) can't wait to see your next one

ha, thats funny, it made me smile, I forgot to say I also like how you made the trees, its again simple yet effective. brilliant build

this is a very clever idea, if you can get it fireing I will be so impressed you have me thinking of a remote controlled LEGO ship, that would be the best thing ever.

Thanks again all I agree this was really a bad time for LEGO Castle and alot of people seem to be telling me that it was at this point that many of them entered there 'Dark age', the torso designs are ok but that doesn't make up for an entire wave being this poor. Ha I don't own all of them however I have built all of them at least once (much more often in most cases) for every faction I discuss (the pirate ones too) I normally own between 30%-100% of the sets, when I do my reviews I will build the smaller sets (I don't have) out of spare bricks and peeron instructions(its really easy) for the bigger sets I will vist family members who do have them (I have about 20 cousins who love lego and all have an reasonable collection of a few of the factions) for the occasional sets that no one has (like the witches manor) I will bricklink, ebay or go car boot shopping so far I have never wrote about a set I did not build myself which I think is a fairly reasonable achievement

ha, yes POTC is on my list, as is western, viking, ninja and all the adventurer sets and LORT when they come out. I am well on my way with most of these however I am haveing alot of troublem tracking down the Ninja sets (I have built/own about 30% which is not enough to do a theme overview )

Thank you very much thats a very detailed tutorial, when I get back from my sisters I will be having a crack at that (and probably cutting myself on the knife whilst I'm at it )

A redcoats my old friends, this is a really nice build, I love how soild it feels (try to get through that BSB) and I love the way the sea is lapping the shore, its so simple but so effective. Oddly enought the only thing I am not a fan of is the cannon in the tower (how did it get up there?) but thats a minor niggle on a brilliant build. Well done sir

Thanks again all I agree that the minifigs and the extra stuff (crystal ball, broom, chrome sword) is what this theme is really good for, but I find that a huge shame, you can't just release a set with a cool fig and expect the work to be done, the modern impulse sets have been far better (the jester/ green, blue wizard/ the fantasty castle knight), but I digress if you want a bat lord for a cheap price get a flying machien I think I will do the two groups seperatly as there are a fair number of sets which include just bull knights and they deserve there own little place on my blog, I will probably do the same for Kingdoms II as well because there sets can be split (mostly) too . So it looks like I have 10 more posts to go before I am finished with the Castle series (what will I do then?)

Another really nice build, the poor guy I love how the mafia are all wearing the same suit

I love a good read, thanks

You did the right thing selling the Manor on, to even call it a Manor is laughtable. But as I am running through all the themes I had to include this one as well, I had to find the sets, build them, look at them and try and see the good, there is some good but not nearly as much as other factions. Still I feel I have tackled the hardest so we should be ok

Thats a good point about the shield, it's yet another example of this factions failings, I really tried to like this faction and see the good points but there's just not enougth of them and some of the sets are not good enought its a shame really the end of the Classic Castle themes deserved better.

Hello again all LEGO Fan's I have updated my blog with another post I hope you all like it. LEGO Fright Knights Any feedback and comments would be most welcome (p.s to any of the mods, can I talk to anyone about putting all these overviews somewhere in the master index, like they did in the pirate forum?) Cheers all

Cheers for the compliment and the info, Fantasy Era will be tackled in due time (I have a few to go first), I am probably going to look at each faction seperatly, so I would have a hard time comparing the two overall waves, however as a conclusion at the end of the human faction I will definatly be doing this (mostly because its a good idea and I apericate you mentioning it). I see Fantasy as a smaller revival of the classic sets in the way that there where lots of different factions around at the same time (late 80s had Crusaders, Falcon's, Forestmen and Black Knights, were as late 00s had Men, Dwarfs, Troll and Skellys) giving people a brilliant cross selection of options for sets and faction alliances (My little bro had the trolls as the good guys against the skelly and humans, his dwarfs were nutural unless someone went to there mine). But I see Kingdoms as a revival of the classic era from the start (when it was just Falcon, Crusaders and some villages), I guess its all about preference, but I am a big fan of civilain sets for Castle. Sadly for a more in depth take on it all you'll have to wait a little while hopefully my writing will make it worth it.

This is a brilliant start I like how it feels that the figs themselves are building it . The well looks wonderful as does the lower wall, I quite like the fact its all the same colour which for a new building it could be as time has yet to errode the new shine off the bricks. Can't wait for an update.

ohh ok thanks, that is actually quite a nice little design idea, I will be looking into these sets soon when I write my blog so I gotta find a way to get my hands on them (I know I have a friend with this set in London, time for a trip). But its good to be told this sort of thing incase I can't find them all (it happens occasionaly). Cheers again

Well if you ever do post up how to make them (which would be awesome ) could you send me a message so I won't miss out as I never think to check the custom forum, they look really good I am impressed.

Ha love the peace sign

I too am not the biggest fan of this castle, however the review is really good and its nice to see the set in such detail. One question those additional little sets, do they connect to the castle in anyway or are they just extra builds seperate from it?

Very good build so far, keep it up. I too love the Fire and Ice books (have just started watching the tv show), sadly theres none of the other house symbols (such as Greyjoy or Arryn), still the power four are there

I also liked how the build could be a set, I also love the inclusion of a dog, more pirate sets should have dogs

Thats a really clever trick, I love the design as well.