What were your first Castle sets

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I'm pretty sure my first Castle set was 8799: Knights' Castle Wall. Lots of fun. :D
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My first castle set was 6076 Dark Dragon's Den. Soon, I would get 6078 Royal Drawbridge. I still have both sets, although some parts are missing :? .
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It all startet with this:
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My First castle-set!
I still have the two guys, but the torsoprinting ... Hmmm I think I've played with them many times :?

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my career started with "10000-1: Guarded Inn" ;) in 2001-2002, before then I only bought city, space and so.
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My first (and oldest) castle set is 6009 Black Knight.
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The first castle set I ever received was this:
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My first castle set was 6026 "King Leo". That combined with 6032 "Catapult Crusher" got me hooked on the Lego Castle sets.
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My first Castle set was 375/6075 Yellow Castle which I got when I was in grade 2 after I was discharged from the hospital where I had received bilateral tympanostomies. My mom took me to a store where I picked it out from the selection of toys. I was 7 at the time and had Lego since I was 3. I had countless hours of adventure with this set. I used to use the figs as my playing pieces when I played checkers with my brother.
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I'm not sure what ones I got first, but I didn't have that many when I was young. Of course, I thought I had tons, but now I realize it wasn't that much, really.

Here's the list:

6039 (Twin-Arm Launcher, 1988)
6060 (Knight’s Challenge, 1989)
6077-2 (Forestmen’s River Fortress, 1989)
6085 (Black Monarch’s Castle, 1988) -- TWO copies
6016 (Knight’s Arsenal, 1987)

I didn't realize I had two copies of the Black Monarch's Castle until I broke out my old legos last summer. (Oh yes, I said "legos", plural -- deal with it!) ;-)

My favorite was the Knight's Arsenal, because it had wheels and a way to harness a cart to a horse, and I spent most of my youth devising ever-fancier carts for that horse to pull.

I've also "inherited" (a.k.a. stolen) my sibling's sets, so I have one that had a ghost in it.... oh, I so coveted that ghost when I was young, and my sister had it, and she just didn't appreciate it.

Since I've been looking at my old sets and minifigs, I've come to realize I know just about NOTHING about the various factions. I didn't even know there were good guys and bad guys till this year; it all went over my head when I was younger. I'm still not that interested in factions, but I feel I ought to at least become more educated about them. I guess I'll have to do a bit of research.
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6030 Catapult for me. The kid who gave me that at my 6th birthday party has a lot to answer for :lol:
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eilonwy77 wrote:I didn't even know there were good guys and bad guys till this year
There were not. They were all just minifigs with smiley faces. The whole good-guy-bad-guy-crap was made up afterwards. There is not much of a backstory for those old factions, either, no names, no nothing. And none is needed. Everybody is entitled to use their figs as they want to.


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Bruce N H wrote:My first Castle set was one of these three Shell promotional sets.
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What brought me out of my dark age was this series of promo sets at my local gas station (not just these three - there were ten total from various themes) - they were $2 with a tank of gas, so I figured "why not?" and got one. That brought back all the great memories, and I quickly bought all of the series of promo sets each time I went by that gas station.
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The answer for both is the same set for me 6012 Siege Cart

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I believe that I got my first castle sets in 1989. They were Black Monarch's Castle and the Forestmen's River Fortress. I am guessing that one was a Christmas present and the other a birthday present, because there is no way that I got them at the same time and I didn't get presents that big unless it was one of those two days. I was also into the Futuron space sets at the time but only had a few of the smaller ones.

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my first castle set was 4801 Defense Archer. but i did have 3051 Blaze Attack before that. my oldist castle set is 2889 Treasure Cart i Got from my friend he got it on ebay
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