#lego dark forest fortress

[bluenpinkcastle]

20240328: the History of LEGO Castle day 088. 6079 Dark Forest Fortress (1996, 469 pieces, 158 different parts) The Dark Forest Fortress is built on a raised 32x32 green canyon baseplate with printed rocks and path design. Two large brown trees built out of 3x3x6 corner panels with green foilage occupy two sides of the build. A blue, black, and red carriage pulled by a brown horse with a blue harness travels through the forest. The Dark Forest Fortress has seven minifigures. -The first minifigure appears to be modeled after Earl Flynn and has a green forest folk cap with a small red feather, a yellow minifigure head with a black handle bar mustache and spikey beard, a brown torso with yellow arms and printed black cross-chest belt with a yellow buckle and a black belt with three notches and a silver buckle, and plain green legs. -The second minifigure has a small blue feather in a brown forest folk cap, a yellow minifigure head with black bangs and mustache, a printed brown torso with a studded leather armor design and a cross-chest belt with a yellow buckle and a brown belt with black notches and a yellow buckle with blue arms, and plain light gray legs. -The next minifigure has a black hood, yellow minifigure head with brown bangs and longer side bangs, a brown quiver, a green torso with printed yellow v-neck, brown pouch on a black belt with a yellow buckle and green arms, a brown bow with notched arrow, and plain light gray legs. -Another minifigure has a brown hood, a yellow minifigure head with black bangs and mustache and facial scruff, a green forest person torso with printed maroon spikey collar and red arms, a cross-torso black belt, a black belt with yellow buckle, plain brown legs, a dark gray sword, and a brown forest person shield with a brown deer head with black antlers on a green background with a brown border. -The skeleton returns in this set, with a white minifigure head with black circular eyes, a black triangle nose, and a black tooth smile, a white skeleton body with thin shoulder pins, thin skeleton arms, and individual bone legs. -One of the dragon master knights uses a yellow minifigure head with wavy black eyebrows, mustache, and goatee, a red torso with blue arms, printed silver shoulder covers, and a standing yellow and black halved dragon on a black and red background with black legs and a red belt. -Another of the dragon master knights has a yellow minifigure head with black forehead tuft and mustache, a red torso with blue arms and a printed yellow dragon head on a red background with a printed black belt with yellow notches and circular hollow yellow belt buckle, and light gray legs with a black belt. This set has a number of unique and rare parts. -The green 32x32 raised canyon base plate is unique to this set. -The brown 3x3x6 corner panel was only found in one other set, 6020 Magic Shop. -The blue horse hitching harness was only found in two other sets (6010 Supply Wagon and 6359 Horse Trailer). -The light gray 5x5 modified facet brick is only found in six other sets. -The brown forest folk triangular shield is only found in seven other sets. -This is the only castle set with the black 2x6x.66 slope, though it does appear in seven other LEGO sets. -The black 3x1x3.33 slope with studs is used in eight other sets. -The brown 1x5x4 continuous arch bow is used in nine other sets. This is a Very Cool set. Even though I only picked it up several years ago and built it for the first time then, it's become one of my favorite designs. There are hidden areas and if you pull the pin, the tree actually falls and blocks the road through the forest. Also, I'm fairly certain this is my absolute FAVORITE carriage design in all the LEGO castle sets :) Parts inventory for this set can be found on BrickLink or Rebrickable and a free download of the instructions is available on ToysPeriod.

[delicioussaltynutz]

A little introduction thing

name : Kirby (or my username/s: ButteredToast/ delicioussaltynuts)

Age: 22

Sexual orientation: Asexual and Pansexual

Gender: Non Binary

Pronouns: They/Them/Their/They're

I'm autistic

Favorite color/s : forest green ,navy blue,and aquamarine

Nationality: African American

My favorite shows and/or movies and video games:

Shows- Inside Job, Rottmnt, The Cuphead show , Lego Monkie kid, Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, Spooky Month, The Owl house, She ra, Mha (I'm not done watching all seasons tho, so no spoilers), Gravity Falls, Spongebob (the older seasons), Dead end Paranormal Park, and Metal family

Movies - Wendell & Wild, Spider man into the Spider verse, Rise of the gaurdians, Netflix Pinocchio, guardians of the galaxy, Wendell & Wild, and Encanto

Musicals- The Beetlejuice musical, The Spongebob musical, and Alexander Hamilton

Video games- Team Fortress 2, Overwatch, Little Nightmares, Edith Finch, Bendy and the Ink machine, Bendy and the dark arrival, and Sam and Max (Might edit this in the future , because I plan on getting a Nintendo switch)

Favorite food/s: Chicken (basically any kind), Debbled eggs, and Tuna

Favorite beverages: Pepsi, Mocha Boba tea, cheer wine, and rootbeer

Interest/hobbies :

Interest- collecting figurines and/or stuffed animals, anything relating to mythology cryptology or monsters in general, musicals and plays (and theatre in general) and angst

Hobbies- Reading,writing, internet surfing, drawing, dnd , drawing fanart, and character design

My Kins:

° Luz Noceda from The Owl House

° Orel from Morel Orel

° Blitz from Helluva Boss

° Moxxie from Helluva Boss

° Dib from Invader Zim

° Steven Universe from Steven Universe Future

° Amythst from Steven Universe

°Barney from Dead end Paranormal Park

° Preston from Camp camp

° Gwen from Camp Camp

° Dipper from Gravity falls

° Bosco from Sam and Max

° Tweek from South park

° Donnie from Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

° Entrapta from She ra

My comfort Characters:

° Demoman from Tf2

° Spy from Tf2

° Stolas from Helluva Boss

° Fingers from Dead end Paranormal Park

° Courtney from Dead end Paranormal Park

° Gord from Dead end Paranormal Park

° Kevin from Spooky Month

° King from The Owl house

° The collector from The Owl house

° Hooty from The Owl house

° Beetlejuice from The Beetlejuice musical

° Yuga from Mha

° Giovanni potage from Epithet Erased

° Double Trouble from She ra

People that's allowed on my page:

°mutuals/friends

° fans or follows

° People that are respectful

° People that don't bully

° people that love the same things as me and/or love their own things or have their own interest

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° Bullies

° Homophobes /transphobes

° Trump supporters

° Pro lifers

° People that shit on others over their comfort characters or special interest

° Ableist

° Pro shippers

° Zoophiles (or zoophilia of any kind)

° White washers

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[androidfiles]

Random Set of a Day: 6103

6103 Castle Minifigures

I didn't own this set until deep in my adult years and I only recently made sure to verify I have all the parts and assemble them together, but 6103 Castle Minifigures lurks deep in my LEGO memories. My best friend growing up only had a couple LEGO sets--and this was the one he had that I didn't. Together with mostly forgotten memories of a since-lost 1992 catalogue from one of my earliest sets, it was the main source of knowledge for the existence of Forestmen, and it was a window on a dimly-known era of Lions and Black Falcons (though that was augmented by owning 6081 King's Mountain Fortress and seeing 6057 Sea Serpent and 6059 Knight's Stronghold in the 1993 catalogue I didn't lose).

As such, this set had a tactile importance to my memory in the pre-Internet era that made both the 1996 Dark Forest sets and the 2001-2002 Legends releases extra-exciting. With this trio of factions in one set, this is--in a very specific sense--the forerunner of Lion Knights' Castle.

My copy of the set was not all received at once, but was assembled from a few different sources, but most of five figs came in one go: a used lot that also included a nearly-complete 6066 Camouflaged Outpost.

Year Released: 1988 I Acquired: December 6th, 2017 Origin of Fig(s): No named characters (contains 2 Black Falcons, 2 Forestmen, 1 Lion soldier, 1 peasant)

Parts Score: 3.5 out of 5 (factoring in its purpose as a fig battle pack--there isn't a single "building" piece in the set) Playability Score: 3 out of 5 (some great fig diversity, but no locations or vehicles) Minifigure Score: 4.5 out of 5 Design Score: 3 out of 5 Personal Favouritism Score: 4.5 out of 5

Android Files Notes: There's definitely potential to see each of these guys now that we've hit the Castle realms, but insofar I never owned the set in childhood, none of these smiley-faced figs has a "character" likely to make them prominent. There's an argument to be made that the all-green Forestman was meant to be Robin Hood himself (i.e. the leader of the Forestmen), but even if we give that credence, I have the same fig with Camouflaged Outpost--where he has a horse--so there's no guarantee this one need appear.

[cooperjones2020]

What’s Past is Prologue, What to Come

The first in a series of interrelated vignettes from Jughead Jones’s obsession with Betty Cooper. Can be read with Marked, part 1 and part 2.

Starts in childhood and will go partway through season 1. If I don’t get bored.

Dark!Jug, Creepy!Jug, Stalker!Jug, generally Sociopathic!Jug

TW for implied abuse, and, as always, gratuitous Shakespeare references

(ao3-->http://archiveofourown.org/works/11394858/chapters/25519734)

The day he met Betty was the day he discovered the monster in his chest.

He stared at her through the boughs of the shrub he’d been sitting in for the last five minutes.

Now that the sun had sunk below the eaves of the house, the underside of the boxwood hedge was dark and cool. The shiny leaves brushed against him, tickling his skin and snagging on his hat. He heard Archie, still counting, through the open bedroom window, but he knew the other boy wouldn’t find him here. Even then Jughead Jones knew Archie Andrews wasn’t very smart. For starters, he hadn’t actually meant that Archie should count to a hundred when he said count to a hundred. Archie kept messing up thirty-three and thirty-four and having to go back.

But that was okay. Archie always had new comic books and he didn’t mind sharing his legos. Plus, when they went over to the Andrews for dinner, there was always enough for seconds. Usually thirds too.

In his green and dappled fortress, Jughead hunkered down for a nice quiet wait. He had a dead frog in his pocket that he’d picked up on the walk over.

Then the gate opened and what he could only describe as a cartoon character come to life walked through. The little girl had curled blonde pigtails, a stiff pink dress, and saddle shoes with ruffled socks. She was the cleanest thing he’d ever seen. She actually glowed.

She also had a tupperware container.

Jughead debated whether or not to come out. On the one hand, Archie was almost done counting and if he came out, he’d almost certainly lose. On the other hand, if he didn’t come out he might not get to eat whatever was in the tupperware. He’d already eaten two hot dogs but he also knew he’d eaten the end of the cereal at their house that morning.

Then the back door opened and Archie ran out, his orange head almost as strong a beacon as her yellow one. “Betty, you came!”

“Of course I did, Archie! And look, my mom sent us brownies!”

Brownies. Okay he was coming out.

He emerged from his crouch in the hedge and the girl—Betty—looked startled.

“Wow, that was a good hiding place, Jug! I never would have found you.”

Jughead shrugged at Archie, but stayed in his place in the bush, his hand around the frog in his pocket.

“Come meet Betty! She’s my new neighbour and she has a sister and a cat and her parents are putting a swimming pool in their yard!”

The girl rolled her eyes. “Archie, I said that was a secret!”

“Jughead’s my best friend, Betty. Secrets don’t count with best friends.” Jughead didn’t think that was true. He was pretty sure there were things his dad hadn’t told Mr. Andrews. Like for instance, he was pretty sure Mr. Andrews didn’t know about the stuff his dad brought home from work. But this didn’t seem to be the moment to point it out.

She moved forward. “Hi Jughead, I’m Betty. Do you want a brownie?”

“Yes.” He stepped out of the shrub and reached up a hand to make sure his hat was on tightly.

He ate three brownies and drank a glass of milk while Archie and Betty argued about what they should play. Archie insisted girls couldn’t play with GI Joes. Betty insisted he was wrong. GI Joe looked exactly like Ken so if Archie wouldn’t share a GI Joe with her, she’d just go bring one of her Ken dolls over. And maybe she’d bring Barbie too.

Archie’s eyes widened in horror. Jughead watched their exchange. The sheer speed with which words left her mouth was disorienting. He didn’t think he’d ever heard either of his parents talk that fast. Or that much.

But he was also fascinated by her hands. She kept making fists and releasing them. They curled so tightly he knew they had to be hurting her. But she kept them by her sides. She never raised them like his father sometimes did late at night.

Archie called him back to the present. “Jug, tell her a Ken doll is not the same as a GI Joe. Ken is for girls.”

Jughead had never seen a Ken doll, but he also didn’t want Betty to leave. So he sided with Betty. Archie only looked hurt for a moment before shrugging and running upstairs for the basket of toys.

He didn’t understand why he couldn’t stop staring at her.

He watched her from his place to her left on the grass. For all Archie’s complaining, as soon as they’d started playing, he’d let Betty take charge of the game. She was currently collecting rocks from around her and ordering Archie to fetch extra food. The GI Joes were going on a stakeout in the desert.

She turned big green eyes on him and asked if he wanted to help her build their fort. He scooted a little bit closer.

When her mother called her home, a sharp Elizabeth traveling over the tall, white fence, Betty had looked scared. Immediately, Jughead had a vision of her mom as a fire-breathing dragon. Or as the evil stepmother wanting to lock Betty away in a tower. Something black and foreign clawed its way up his throat and for a moment his vision tunneled. The thing roared in his ears. Jughead had never wanted to play knight before, but he wanted to protect Betty Cooper. He wanted a sword to swing and charge and whack at her mother.

He watched her slip back through the gate and into her own yard. Through the slats of the fence, he could see her mother yelling, saying things like You knew what time you had to be home and where is my tupperware and how did you get grass stains on your dress. Betty stared at her shoes. Jughead wished again for a sword. He wished the thing inside him could come out. Archie kept playing with his GI Joe.

That night, when Archie fell asleep, Jughead rolled out of his sleeping bag and crept to the windowsill. Her curtains were open. A nightlight illuminated a tiny figure hunched on the bed. If he didn’t breathe, he could hear the strangled sound of her crying.

Without thinking, he pulled the head off the GI Joe that had been on the floor next to him.

He wanted to hit whoever made Betty cry. He wanted to hit Betty so she’d keep crying.

When his mother left for Toledo the first time, taking a black eye and a ten month-old Jellybean with her, when his father said he was too young to be left alone and dropped him off at the Andrews for a couple hours that turned into five days, Betty Cooper baked him cookies.

By then, he was used to her feeding him.  The instances in which Betty appeared at the Andrews house unaccompanied by baked goods were few and far between. She seemed to use them to unlock the magic door that kept her imprisoned. She used them cut a path in the tangled forest that isolated her tower. She used them like an excuse so her mother would let her come over.

The times Archie wasn’t home, the times his parents would fight and Jughead would sneak his way past them or out his window, and would run and run and climb until he could fling himself into the treehouse in the corner of Archie’s yard, Betty’s blonde head would appear, quickly followed a small plastic bag or a tupperware container. When he was really lucky, she’d also bring a sandwich.

On the third day of Gladys and FP’s absence, when Jughead was beginning to wonder if he was an orphan, Betty had arrived.

Betty told him these cookies were special. Polly, older than them and so infinitely wise, had helped bake them. Archie was made to promise not to eat any. They had chocolate chips but no walnuts, which her mom normally put in. They had reese’s pieces. They had pretzels. And they were as big as two of his hands.

He ate four while Betty took off her coat.

As usual, he noted how clean she was. He wasn’t sure if pink was her favourite color — he’d never asked her — but she sure wore it a lot. Today, though, she had a white gauze bandage wrapped around her right forearm.

Polly the infinitely wise hadn’t been able to find the oven mitts. “So I used a dish towel, only it didn’t work as good. So when my hands got too hot — well I’m not sure cause it happened so fast — but I think I must have tried to balance the tray on my arm instead and then I burned myself.” Tears sprung to her eyes and her lower lip wobbled. “Juggie, it hurt.”

The black thing in his chest, the monster, shifted in its cage. He hugged Betty, because that’s what you were supposed to do. That’s what Mrs. Andrews had done the day before when Jughead had stubbed his toe and said a word that made Archie turn as red as his hair.

Betty sighed and turned her face into his neck.

“What if I sign it? We can color it and draw pictures.”

“It’s not a cast, Juggie.”

“So? It looks the same. And then when you look at it, you can remember how much fun coloring is instead of how much it hurt.” She looked at him the way baby Jellybean sometimes did.

Betty had been right, though. A gauze bandage was not the same as a cast. He’d picked a red marker and Betty had picked a pink one — maybe that really was her favorite color — but soon after they started, the colors began to bleed together, and Betty winced and then she started to cry for real. Something darker than the red marker reached up and swallowed the letters of their names.

Mrs. Andrews wasn’t mad. Mrs. Andrews was never mad. Jughead had never even heard her yell. She just took Betty into the bathroom and sat her on the toilet and pulled out a first aid kit.

Jughead hovered in the doorway, shifting from foot to foot. His eyes bugged out when she unwrapped the bandage.

A red, shiny patch as big as a baseball covered the inside of Betty’s forearm. But in the middle of that, old, brown blood had crusted, and something yellow and oozing seeped around it. The red of the fresh blood flowed in and through the the raised yellow bits, making tracks like water between tiles. Tiny blisters ringed the whole mess. He couldn’t tear his eyes away from it.

It was made up of brighter versions of the same colors Betty’s fists made when she clenched them.

But soon enough, Mary had it rewrapped, with a fresh layer of neosporin under the bandage. Betty smiled at him through the droplets that clung to her eyelashes.

“It’s probably time for you to go home now, Betty. We don’t want your mom to be mad.”

“Okay,” said Betty in a small voice. She hugged Jughead and ran out.

When Betty left, Jughead retreated to the treehouse with his cookies. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews had been making Archie leave him alone unless he said he wanted company. He didn’t.

He’d discovered he could see into Betty’s room. She’d forgotten her Nancy Drew binoculars the week before and he could use them to see through her window to the mirror above her dresser. And then he could usually see her sitting on her bed. It wasn’t as good as the view from Archie’s window, but it was good enough.

Jughead took the red and yellow markers out of his pocket. He used his right arm to draw on his left.

When it had been nine days, FP returned. He smelled and his beard had grown in and Jughead was pretty sure he was wearing the same clothes. Mr. Andrews had given him a look, a look Jughead had noticed passing between the two men increasingly often, but ultimately, Jughead had been bundled into his coat and sent back to the trailer park.

He went inside but his dad stopped to sit on the steps. When Jughead came back to check on him a while later, he had fallen asleep. Jughead sidled around to his front. There was a small, familiar lump in FP’s front shirt pocket. He reached in and removed the lump gingerly, then snuck back inside with it clutched in his hand. Curled up in his bed with his back to the door, he cupped a palm around the lighter and flicked the flame on and off.

[shamankingasakuraworld]

Towns

Yoh can't imagine better place on Earth than Funbari. He isn't really sure that even Heaven can compare. He would bet it couldn't. 

 On it's own, Tokyo is a pretty impressive city. It is giant and sprawling, with buildings grander than any tower from legends that almost seems to reach towards the stars. Millions of people, going on with their lives-mundane or not- and somehow they are all connected.

 Funbari isn't in stunning parts of Tokyo. In fact, you could even say it is boring, hidden away on outskirts. But Yoh loves it. Loves trees and cemetery and small sweet shops and quiet neighborhoods and even school. He was born in Izumo, but Tokyo is his home. 

All cities are amazing-how could they not be? So many people living together, sharing same space and air, their homes so near each other, their lives bound together. But everybody has their city, one whose name brings warmth to heart. And Yoh's is Tokyo. 

 No other place in world has Anna and Manta, Amidamaru and Hana.

Lyserg's soul belongs to London, and London belongs to him. He is detective, investigator, dowser. 

It is his job and birthright to walk through shadows and lies, to seek truth and secrets on both streets and in homes. 

 It is an ancient city, and centuries of tradition and ghosts lay over each other, like layers of skin. It is his job, his duty, his blood to travel and document all he can. 

 He will never uncover them all. No lone person can. City is too wide, too massive, too many streets and secrets. And it is always growing, with each new life. But it doesn't bother him. 

 If you peel off every layer, you are left with nothing. 

Horohoro has traveled over good part of world. He had seen capitols and grand cities. He had seen hidden villages and mythic, sunken kingdoms. He had even seen otherworld. And he would never leave Hokkaido, not for anything in any world.

 As young, he hated and loved it. Hated people there, laughing at him for so many reasons- because he was Ainu, because he could see strange thing, because he cared for plants, because he would talk to air, because he had blue hair. But he loved it's sky and soil and snow, loved shops and food and games, loved few friends he made. 

 But only when he left for Shaman Fight, for grand Tokyo and wide Atlantic and distant America, did he realize how much he loved Hokkaido. He seemed to remember every detail, every cobble on street, every stranger. And he missed it as much as he wanted to be Shaman King.

 When everything ended, he could have gone everywhere, became anybody. But he went back home, became "simple" farmer, doing everything in his power to save coltsfoot fields alongside his family. 

 His home isn't perfect, but it doesn't need to be.

 Anna doesn't remember her hometown, for all that it is such important part of basic itako spell. She doesn't know whether she has sibling, and concerning her parents she remembers... well, not faces, but expressions (wariness and confusion) and feelings (fear and disgusts). 

That is fine by her. What need has she of memories of people that abandoned her? If she could, she would never return to Shimokita. It is foolish, and irresponsible, but memories bury her like avalanche until she chokes on grief. 

She could never understand concept of home, of town that is part of your soul, but if it existed, Shimokita certainly isn't it, for all that Osorezan shaped her. 

Now, travelling over world with Yoh, seeing hundred different but same stories playing out in thousand towns and villages, she finally understands. She thinks of Tokyo, and Funbari, and her soaps, and Ryo and Manta and Tamao and Hana and goes on. 

 She can't stop, for her onsen isn't yet most famous in Japan. 

 For sake of Paris, Jeanne would die. Not the Iron Maiden, who must bleed and endure and bring justice to darkness, but Jeanne, little girl fond of sweet cakes and puffy dresses. 

 She loves every aspect of her city. From dirty slums where charity is needed to glamorous halls from which it should-no,must-be given. She loves her home, and she loves orphanage where she was found, and she loves shining restaurants and X-Laws's storages of weapons and Paris's magnificent, breath-taking churches. 

 God made man in His image-a creature of stunning intellect, endless charity and uncontainable imagination. Towns, villages, communities-they are epitomes of His gifts, fortresses of kindness, order and law. 

 It may be selfish, and stupid, and selfish, but she would dare say Paris is greatest of them all. The city of light, kingdom of art and science, bastion of freedom and virtue. It may be blasphemy, and so she prays for forgivness if that is case. 

 But to her, the whole city is the temple, holiest of them all after Jerusalem. 

Hao snarls and bites his cheek and spits, one hand holding on rough, vandalised wall, other curled in fist, lego gauntlets hitting bricks, breaking paint, carving his name in alley. Just why would anybody live in something as ridiculous as town, with it's buildings and streests and poisoned air and tainted rivers and starved animals and humans and people and million horrible thoughts and oh Heavens how are they even breathing? 

 He spent nine centuries in Hell, and he can say with certainty that any human dwelling is far worse. He couldn't stand even Patch village, with all of shamans and Great Spirits presence. Even less could he stand palaces of Imperial Court, full of greed and treachery and selfish nobles, just as he couldn't stand streets, cold and starvation and fools that do nothing. It is wonder he doesn't shatter and destroy all of this (of course not, he has excellent self control, but watching those concrete skyscrapers melt would be such lovely sight...). 

Forests and deserts and volcanoes and icy wastes and seas and what more could you need? If you couldn't stand open sky there were always crowns of trees and caves and you could make shelters... But then, he lived on the edge of village, and he and his mother were demons and foxes and could walk in and out of dark woods and he was born there, between roots and branches, so she once told him, tired and sad and unaware and half asleep. Wolf for midwife, bird for doctor, demon for nurse, kodama for guardian, fox for mother.  

But this abomination, this monstrosity, this city is still part of earth. Trapped and crying and inert, but living and eternal and hateful. Walls and steel and glass remember being stone and ore and sand. Hao feels ground hum, and smiles, caressing the walls, as mother earth grips his heart and soul and roars with hatred, demanding justice and retribution from only one who can hear her venomous words. Buildings crumble and shatter. Dust and soil are eternal. Earth is broken and betrayed, tormented and fractured, and yet... 

 There are flowers, growing despite asphalt.

[lovelego]

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[keoyho-wievqu]

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[soujde-veihna]

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[lauxcu-duoqra]

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20240306: the History of LEGO Castle day 066. 6048 Majisto's Magical Workshop (1993, 188 pieces, 66 different parts) Majisto's Magical Workshop is built on two thin 8x16 baseplates attached by a hinge to close the building. The inside of the workshop contains a brown treasure chest with transparent red and green 1x1 circle plates (also known as studs), a white 2x2 printed magic scroll tile, a small cooking pot on a fire, and a light gray 2x4 brick functioning as a table with two transparent clear goblets. The bulk of the set is built on top of two dark gray 4x10x6 rectangular Big Ugly Rock Panels (BURPs) with light gray and black highlights. When closed, the workshop has no doors or other way into the workshop, but there are two blue 1x2x2 window shutters on display in the front. The roof is composed of large red plates with black highlights. This set includes two minifigures. The first minifigure is Majisto with a blue wizard hat with a white beard, black plastic cape, blue torso with blue arms and a yellow v-neck with a black belt and yellow buckle and a small brown pouch, plain blue legs, and a glow-in-the-dark wand. The second minifigure has a black dragon helmet with just the right and left blue dragon plumes, a yellow minifigure head with wavy black eyebrows, mustache, and goatee, a red torso with blue arms, printed silver shoulder covers, and a standing yellow and black halved dragon on a black and red background with black legs and a red belt. This is one of only six castle sets to use the black 3x1x3.33 slope with studs (6048 Majisto's Magical Workshop, 6075-1 Wolfpack Tower, 6078 Royal Drawbridge, 6079 Dark Forest Fortress, 6082 Fire Breathing Fortress, 6090 Royal Knight's Castle), and while it's one of my favorite pieces, it's not very common. Majisto's Magical Workshop also uses two of the blue dragon plumes as front decoration for the building, which are only found in this set, 6086 Black Knight's Castle, and 6105 Medieval Knights. This is one of only four total sets to use the 4x8x2.33 dark gray castle turret top (6046 Hemlock Stronghold, 6048 Majisto's Magical Workshop, 6094 Guarded Treasury, 6097 Night Lord's Castle) and the ovoid green dragon shield is only found in 12 sets. I've now arrived at the sets that I have owned for some time but never built, so this is my first time building them. This set was interesting to me because of the recent gift with purchase remake, which caused a big stir in the LEGO Castle fandoms. (I still haven't built that one, either). So some of this set is really neat, like the actual inside of the workshop with the ladder to the second floor and the fire with the pot and the table. It's a cozy workshop and if you think about it being actually underground, maybe in a cave or something, it's pretty neat, minus the open air roof situation. But on the other hand, I felt like there were some really fragile parts while building that didn't feel as stable while I was building them but definitely locked in place once the turret pieces were added. I also think I'm still pretty annoyed at how this entire subtheme is clearly intended for a male-only audience and there are no women in this subtheme. Overall, it is pretty fun, though. Parts inventory for this set can be found on BrickLink or Rebrickable and a free download of the instructions can be found on ToysPeriod.

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20240312: the History of LEGO Castle day 072. 1906 Majisto's Tower (1994, 196 pieces, 90 different parts) Majisto's Tower is a black and light gray building on a 16x24 green plate with large brown wood double doors and a two story black tower in front and a black tower with a red sloped roof in the back corner. The archway over the door and the front-facing tower wall are both black with printed yellow fire breathing dragons facing each other. A blue robed wizard rides in a black and blue chariot pulled by a brown horse in a blue harness with a red horse helmet and red dragon wings on the back. A dark gray Large Ugly Rock Panel (LURP) is on one side and a Big Ugly Rock Panel (BURP) is on the other side. There are three minifigures in this set. -The first minifigure is Majisto with a blue wizard hat with a white beard, black plastic cape, blue torso with blue arms and a yellow v-neck with a black belt and yellow buckle and a small brown pouch, plain blue legs, a glow-in-the-dark wand, and a white 2x2 printed spell scroll tile. -The second minifigure has a black dragon helmet with all three red dragon plumes, a dark gray halberd, a yellow minifigure head with wavy black eyebrows, mustache, and goatee, a red torso with blue arms, printed silver shoulder covers, and a standing yellow and black halved dragon on a black and red background with black legs and a red belt. -The third minifigure has a a yellow minifigure head with black forehead tuft and mustache, a red torso with blue arms and a printed yellow dragon head on a red background with a printed black belt with yellow notches and circular hollow yellow belt buckle, and light gray legs with a black belt. Accessories include a black axe wielder helmet, a brown spear, and an ovoid shield with a green dragon with red wings on a yellow background with a red border. This set has several new and unique parts: -There are two (VERY COOL) black pieces with printed yellow dragons facing each other. One is a black 1x8x2 arch and the other is a black 2x5x6 wall panel. Both are only found in this set and 6082 Fire Breathing Fortress. -The brown 1x4x8 curved top door is only found in one other set, 6082 Fire Breathing Fortress. -The red 4x8x6 tower roof is only found in two other sets (1906 Majisto's Tower and 9367 Castle Set from Education and Dacta). -The black 6x6x9.33 large black enclosed staircase is only found in two other sets (6076 Dark Dragon's Den and 6497 Twisted Time Train). -The yellow and green cloth 8x5 dragon banner only appears in three other sets (6056 Dragon Wagon, 6076 Dark Dragon's Den, 6082 Fire Breathing Fortress). -This is one of only six castle sets to use the black 3x1x3.33 slope with studs (6048 Majisto's Magical Workshop, 6075-1 Wolfpack Tower, 6078 Royal Drawbridge, 6079 Dark Forest Fortress, 6082 Fire Breathing Fortress, 6090 Royal Knight's Castle). -The ovoid shield with a print of a green dragon with red wings on a yellow background with a red outline is only found in twelve sets. This set is a lot of fun and it's been great to see play elements included so the minifigures can actually get from the bottom floor of the castles into the towers. This might be my favorite of the Dragon Master sets in this subtheme and I think it would be really interesting to build two of these back-to-back, as I think that would really flush this out into a most stable castle. Maybe I can add that idea to my growing list of things to try when I have time :) Parts inventory for this set can be found at BrickLink or Rebrickable and a free download of the instructions is available on ToysPeriod.

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20240131: the History of LEGO Castle day 31. 6054-1 Forestmen's Hideout (1988, 202 pieces, 59 different parts) The Forestmen's Hideout is such a great little set and is a mostly black two-story build with green foilage and two green trees, built on two green 6x12 plates. The second level has a blue plate covered balcony with a light gray wall and two triangular shields with a light brown deer head with black antlers on a green background with a brown border. Hinge bricks allow you to close or open the set, which makes it easy to move and great to play with. The two forest minifigures for this set include a green torso with a v-neck, green arms, a printed black belt with a yellow buckle and a brown pouch with plain green legs, and a green torso with a red collar and red arms and a printed black belt with a yellow buckle and plain green legs. This set introduces another of my favorite bricks, the 3x3 facet wedge brick, as well as the brown forest shields which are only found in five other sets (6071-1 Forestmen's Crossing, 6077-2 Forestmen's River Fortress, 6024-1 Bandit Ambush, 6046-1 Hemlock Stronghold, and 6076-1 Dark Forest Fortress) and two service packs (6103-1 Castle Mini Figures and 5184-1 Castle Equipment). Other new and unique parts for this set include the green whip or plant vine and the yellow 2x2 circle tile with printed blue and red target center. The target was only found in two other sets (6077-2 Forestmen's River Fortress and 1624-1 King's Archer) and one service pack (5184-1 Castle Equipment). This is also the first set to use the black inverted double slope brick, which only shows up in black in nine other sets between 1990-1998. Back of the box builds for this set include several different forest fortresses, including a neat little table with a green roof. Webbrickfreak made free downloadable instructions for the alternate build with the table on Rebrickable. This is another set where I think it would be absolutely fantastic to build it with brown instead of black to make it look more like a tree fortress. Even though I enjoy this set greatly, as one of the original sets from my younger days, building black-on-black is not generally my idea of a good time. I don't know why, but black is a lot harder for me to see and a lot harder for me to build with. This shouldn't have been a very time-consuming build, but it took me about twice as long as other builds in this project with similar piece count. Perhaps in the future, I will rebuild it in another color and post the results :) Parts inventory for this set can be found at BrickLink or Rebrickable and a free download of the instructions can be found at ToysPeriod. BrickSet has a list of the other sets designed by the designer, Niels Milan Pedersen.

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20240309: the History of LEGO Castle day 069. 6082 Fire Breathing Fortress (1993, 406 pieces, 152 different parts) The Fire Breathing Fortress is a black and light gray fortress with red roofs built on a green raised 32x32 baseplate with ramp and a brick-built black dragon head over the ramp with yellow eyes, small red wings, a moveable red tongue, and flames from its nostrils. This set includes six minifigures. -The first minifigure is Majisto with a blue wizard hat with a white beard, black plastic cape, blue torso with blue arms and a yellow v-neck with a black belt and yellow buckle and a small brown pouch, plain blue legs, a glow-in-the-dark wand, and a white 2x2 printed spell scroll tile. -The second minifigure has a black dragon helmet with all three yellow dragon plumes, a yellow minifigure head with red bangs, sideburns, eyebrows, and mustache, a yellow cloth cape with a green dragon breathing red flame with a red border around the cape, a red torso with one blue arm and one black arm, printed silver shoulder covers, and a yellow and black halved dragon head spouting yellow flames on a black and red background with one black leg and one blue leg and a red belt. -Three of the minifigures have a yellow minifigure head with black forehead tuft and mustache, a red torso with blue arms and a printed yellow dragon head on a red background with a printed black belt with yellow notches and circular hollow yellow belt buckle, and light gray legs with a black belt. Accessories include two black axe wielder helmets, a black archer helmet, a brown bow and quiver, a dark gray crossbow, a dark gray sword, and an ovoid shield with a green dragon with red wings on a yellow background with a red border. -The last minifigure is a Wolfpack person with a brown torso and brown arms with a silver wolfhead on a black triangular pattern with a red border, black legs with a red belt, and a yellow minifigure head with black bangs, beard stubble, and a patch over one eye with a black hood. This set has several new and unique parts: -This is the only set to use this green 32x32 raised baseplate with ramp, pit, and dark gray rock patterns. -There are two (VERY COOL) black pieces with printed yellow dragons facing each other. One is a black 1x8x2 arch and the other is a black 2x5x6 wall panel. Both are only found in this set and 1906 Majisto's Tower. -The light gray 7x7 castle turret top corner is only found in one other set (6097 Night Lord's Castle). -The black 4x7x9.33 straight enclosed staircase is only found in this set and a 1991 space set, 6988 Alpha Centauri Outpost. -The yellow and green cloth 8x5 dragon banner only appears in three other sets (1906 Majisto's Tower, 6056 Dragon Wagon, and 6076 Dark Dragon's Den). -Only three other castle sets have the light gray 1x12x3 arch (6090 Royal Knight's Castle, 6097 Night Lord's Castle, and 9367 Castle Set from Education and Dacta). -The red 4x8x6 tower roof is only found in two other sets (1906 Majisto's Tower and 9367 Castle Set from Education and Dacta. -The brown 9x13 grille is only found in four other sets (6076 Dark Dragon's Den, 6091 / 6098 King Leo's Castle, 6097 Night Lord's Castle, and 6279 Skull Island). -This green dragon was only found in six sets (6037 Witch's Windship, 6056 Dragon Wagon, 6076 Dark Dragon's Den, 6082 Fire Breathing Fortress, 6087 Witch's Magic Manor, and 9376 Castle Set from Education and Dacta). -This is one of only six castle sets to use the black 3x1x3.33 slope with studs (6048 Majisto's Magical Workshop, 6075-1 Wolfpack Tower, 6078 Royal Drawbridge, 6079 Dark Forest Fortress, 6082 Fire Breathing Fortress, 6090 Royal Knight's Castle). -The ovoid shield with a print of a green dragon with red wings on a yellow background with a red outline is only found in twelve sets. Parts inventory for this set can be found at BrickLink or Rebrickable and a free download of the instructions can be found at ToysPeriod. If you want to know more about the designer, Daniel August Krentz, BrickSet did a really nice tribute and has a full list of everything he designed.

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20240407: the History of LEGO Castle day 098. 6087 Witch's Magic Manor (1997, 255 pieces, 98 different parts) DRAGONS!!!!! The Witch's Magic Manor is built on two green 12x24 bricks out of three dark gray 4x10x6 Big Ugly Rock Panels (BURPs) and four dark gray 3x8x7 Large Ugly Rock Panels (LURPs) with light gray and black highlights. Two of the LURPs are built together to create a hollow rock to trap the dark forest minifigure using the dark gray chain while the witch has a detachable red and yellow flying machine with four black dragon wings as a rotator on top. The witch's flying machine has a landing platform on the wall above a work area with a 2x2x2 crystal ball, a spell scroll, and several built potions stacks. This set has six minifigures. -The witch has a black witch / wizard hat, a yellow minifigure head with black bangs, long black hair on both sides, an open red smile with one tooth, black arms on a printed black torso with a red necklace with a black spider on a yellow circle background in the center, three yellow buttons, a thin yellow corset line on the waist, a printed black 2x2x2 hollow slope with a red center, and a cloth red cape with a printed black spider on the back. The printed pieces give the appearance of a black dress with black top. -The second minifigure has a black Dragon Master / Dragon Knight helmet, a yellow minifigure head with bushy black goatee, pointed eyebrows, and corner black bangs, a printed black torso with dark gray and silver stripes with black arms, and dark gray legs with a black belt. -The Fright Knights archer has a black archer helmet, yellow minifigure face with black bangs, mustache, and forehead tuft, a printed light gray torso with red Fleur de Lis pattern, dark gray legs with a black belt, and a brown quiver. -The dark forest minifigure has a brown hood, a yellow minifigure head with black bangs and mustache and facial scruff, a green forest person torso with printed maroon spikey collar and red arms, a cross-torso black belt, a black belt with yellow buckle, light gray legs with a black belt, and a brown spear. -The last living minifigure has a black axe wielder helmet, a yellow minifigure head with black bangs, beard, and mustache, a dark gray printed studded armor torso and dark gray arms, and red legs with a black belt. -The skeleton has a white minifigure head with black circular eyes, a black triangle nose, and a black tooth smile, a white skeleton body with thin shoulder pins, thin skeleton arms, and individual bone legs. There are a few new and unique parts in this set. -The black 2x2x6 channel was only found in this set and 6097 Night Lord's Castle. -The light gray octagonal 2x2x3.33 column is only found in two other sets (6078 Royal Drawbridge and 6090 Royal Knights Castle). -The chain element, in dark gray in this set, was introduced in this set. -The 2x5x5 door swivel and frame are only found in seven sets in any color, with the dark gray only found in 6087 Witch's Magic Manor, 6097 Night Lord's Castle, and 9376 Castle Set from Education and Dacta. -The light gray 8x8 wedge plate with 3x4 cut out was only found in four other sets (1787 Crater Cruiser, 1789 Star Hawk II, 6268 Renegade Runner, and 6813 Galactic Chief). -This dragon mold is only found in six sets in green (6037 Witch's Windship, 6056 Dragon Wagon, 6076 Dark Dragon's Den, 6082 Fire Breathing Fortress, 6087 Witch's Magic Manor, and 9376 Castle Set from Education and Dacta). Parts inventory for this set can be found on BrickLink or Rebrickable and a free download of the instructions is available on ToysPeriod.

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20240304: the History of LEGO Castle day 064. 6020 Magic Shop (1993, 47 pieces, 27 different parts) The Magic Shop is a small set with brown 3x3x6 corner panels on a 6x6 green plate with green foilage. A brown ladder comes down the front and covers a 2x2 light gray brick with a printed 2x2 white spell scroll while a brown 2x2x2 barrel with lid has a dark gray sword and a dark gray parrot sits on top. Two transparent neon orange flames are on either side of the panels. The one minifigure in this set is brand new, and the first time one of the minifigures is named. Majisto has a blue wizard hat with a white beard, black plastic cape, blue torso with blue arms and a yellow v-neck with a black belt and yellow buckle and a small brown pouch, plain blue legs, and a glow-in-the-dark wand. New and unique parts for this set include the brown 3x3x6 corner panel, which is the first set with the brown panel and also one of only two sets to use the brown 3x3x6 corner panel (the other is 6079 Dark Forest Fortress). This is also the first use of the glow-in-the-dark wand and the white 2x2 printed magic scroll tile, though both those can be found in later sets. This is also the introduction of part 6126, the castle flame / seaweed / water). The Magic Shop introduces us to the next LEGO Castle theme, the Dragon Masters or Dragon Knights. In the original catalogues, this theme was listed as Dragon Masters but every online system including BrickLink, Rebrickable, and BrickSet refer to this theme as Dragon Knights. Parts inventory for this set can be found on BrickLink or Rebrickable with a free download of the instructions available at ToysPeriod. If you want to see some of the other sets designed by Steen Sig Andersen, you can visit the BrickSet website.

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20240203: the History of LEGO Castle day 034. 6077-2 Forestmen's River Fortress (1989, 359 pieces, 98 different parts) The Forestmen's River Fortress is the first castle set built on a 32x32 thin baseplate. All the sets so far have been built on multiple green baseplate with hinges to open up the set. The set itself is a light gray and black fortress in the middle of a blue plate with green foilage around the exterior and a black bridge connecting the fortress to a small stripe of green land. The entire back wall of the fortress opens with the use of the thin hinge plate and several brick hinges. A small brown and black raft patrols the area around the fortress, with brown 2x2x2 barrels used as the main part of the raft. The six minifigures for this set include: -Two green forest people torsos with blue arms and a blue collar, a printed black belt with a yellow buckle, and plain green legs. -Two green forest people torsos with red arms and a red collar, a printed black belt with a yellow buckle, and plain green legs. -One green forest person with a yellow v-neck, green arms, a printed black belt with a yellow bucklet and a brown pouch, and plain green legs. -One Lion Knight with a red torso and blue arms and a gold lion on a blue triangular shield with a gold outline and red legs. Unique or rare parts: -This set introduced the light gray 2x4x2 string holder, found only in this set and a 1997 Town set (6486-1 Fire Engine). -The light gray corner wall with dark gray stone print was only found in two other sets, 6062-1 Battering Ram (1987) and (6074-1 / 10039-1 Black Falcon's Fortress (1986 / 2002). -The brown forest shields are only found in five other sets (6054-1 Forestmen's Hideout, 6071-1 Forestmen's Crossing, 6024-1 Bandit Ambush, 6046-1 Hemlock Stronghold, and 6076-1 Dark Forest Fortress) and two service packs (6103-1 Castle Mini Figures and 5184-1 Castle Equipment). -The target was only found in two other sets (6054-1 Forestmen's Hideout and 1624-1 King's Archer) and one service pack (5184-1 Castle Equipment). Back of the box, top flap, and other build ideas from the instruction manual include: -A plain light gray fortress on the water. -A tree with an observation platform on top. -A round-ish tree with plenty of foilage. -A fortress with two black towers in front of a light gray fortress compound. -A tree with the forest people right next to a two story light gray castle wall with the Lion Knight guard on it. -A light gray bridge. While this set wasn't one of my originals when I was younger, my sister-in-law sent me all her and her brother's LEGO from when they were younger and this set was in there. I think this is probably the least humane of all the dungeons and jail cells we've seen in the castle builds so far, as the Lion Knight is trapped in the water at the base of the fortress. There's no way to open the jail and I guess prisoners just have to wait for someone to pull them out of the water to get them out of it :) This is a very cool, very fun build, though with older instructions, the struggle is very real to make sure you put everything in its correct place and didn't miss anything. There's not even a parts inventory with these older sets like there are with the newer sets and their instruction manuals. Parts inventory for this set can be found at BrickLink or Rebrickable and a free download of the instructions is available at ToysPeriod. You can also find some of the other sets designed by this designer, Steen Sig Andersen, on BrickSet.