best set for general castle building?

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best set for general castle building?

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Well, my birthday draws near, and with it comes birthday money! :D I don't want to use it all on Legos, as there are a few things that come out later this year that I would like to buy. I was wondering which set/s you would suggest is/are the best all around Castle set/s. The categories I'm looking at are: best pieces (easiest to incorporate into a moc, useful for many different things), best minifigs (which ones are the most versatile, look the best), and most fun (funnest to play with, funnest to build, funnest to push down an escalator, etc....). I want to do some serious Castle vignetting this year, so sets that have little things like arches, or headlights, or slopes, or other pieces that can be used for landscaping or monsters would be nice.

I'm already definetely considering the MMV, and I own the King's Castle siege.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! :D
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My favorite set currently available is definitely the dwarves mine. The dwarves are my favorite new faction, and since coming out of my last lego dark age I have really admired all of the amazing landscaping done by many talented builders on this site. So, I have found the need to acquire a fair amount of earth tones. The dwarf mine has an awesome amount of pieces I can use for landscaping(as well as obviously giving me my dwarves). I really dont build any lego set based off of original instructions, but the design of the mine seems to be rather fun if anyone was concerned with its playability. All in all, the mine is certainly a set that I would recommend...
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At about 100$ a piece, I think KCS and MMV are the best Castle sets out right now. For something less expensive, I like the Dwarves' Mine and Tower Raid sets.
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I think you aught to get dwarves mine because it has accesories and good design. Or you should get Tower raid :eyebrows: because its a good alround set with buildings for both the King and the Orcs. Also the tower could be used as an outpost or something in an MOC because of its good design and it looks pretty cool :) . Also I like it because its one of my most favourate sets. If your looking for a small set then get the good wizard (personelly I think its the new version of majisto). And if your looking for a set similar size to the dwarf mie then go for the troll warship :orc: because I think that its pretty good having a big Castle ship and it can be converted. :)

these are just some ideas as you say you dont want to spend all your money. :wink:
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I have 3 dwarves mines (1 incorperated into KCS and 2 as parts), 2 MMV (1 set up 1 parts) and only 1 lil old KCS. I love the greens and grey bricks with the dwarves mine, I must say it is my favourite set to part out. Hope this helps :)
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Kings castle Siege is the best.
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Its a little bit offtopic but I dont want to create a new thread for this, what exact color grey are the bricks from the Kings Castle siege? Light grey? There are so many grey colors and I don't want two different colors of it. There is a web shop were I can buy grey bricks seperate.

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Nickmans wrote:Its a little bit offtopic but I dont want to create a new thread for this, what exact color grey are the bricks from the Kings Castle siege? Light grey? There are so many grey colors and I don't want two different colors of it. There is a web shop were I can buy grey bricks seperate.

Thanks in advance.
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Nickmans wrote:Its a little bit offtopic but I dont want to create a new thread for this, what exact color grey are the bricks from the Kings Castle siege? Light grey? There are so many grey colors and I don't want two different colors of it. There is a web shop were I can buy grey bricks seperate.

Thanks in advance.
I believe that the bricks in Kings Castle Siege are bluish-gray.

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Personally, i think that MMV is a very good buy. it got lots of nice little parts that can be used for vignettes ( and many other things)

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The MMV is the best. thats the next lego castle set Im going to buy.
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If you're not interested in a second (or third!) KCS, buying up several Tower Raids may be the way to go. The Crownie tower is actually pretty small, so you don't get too many bleys out of the set, but the siege tower comes with a decent number of browns (including dark brown). I tend to find myself in more need of brown that grey/bley, but then again, your needs may be different.
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DraconisTerrena wrote:If you're not interested in a second (or third!) KCS, buying up several Tower Raids may be the way to go.
I already have 6 KCS so I dont need the crap like big rocks and stuffs, all I wanted was the bricks :D And I got it now so thank you for all the reply's :D

Edit: What is MMV?
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Nickmans wrote:Edit: What is MMV?
Medieval Market Village. It's a $100(USD) exclusive set on Lego.com that, like it's name suggests, is a market village. It has a lot of highly sought after and equally rare pieces.
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