Weekly Set Review: Witch's Windship

by **TheOrk** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:52 pm

Wonderful, graceful awe inspiring- O wait sorry wrong set that one is trash and not worth the parts:)

by **00Psyren00** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:34 am

I actually loved this set when I first got it at the age of 7, it had my first dragon too. Now I see it for what it really is, an ugly pile of megablocks.

4/10

by **Teh Stud** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:59 am

This came out during my dark ages and it didn't exactly make me regret my decision at the time.....

I would have to heartily agree with Jojo and the rest of the negative posts.

by **TwoTonic Knight** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:08 am

What a cool set! Gotta love that dragon - clever use of it as the motive power for one of the most unique designs in all the Castle line. I can just hear Willa shout "Ramming speed!" with those two deadly halbards facing forward.

My next question is: did I have any of you going for a minute? Yup, this sets sucks. The big goose egg outta ten (for you non-idiomatic english speakers, that means "zero").

by **Azaghal** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:35 pm

Not even a 1 for the dragon, TTK? :shock:

Objectively, you are all right about this set. Subjectively, I have a (small) soft spot for it, since it provided my first (so far only) dragon. Throw in ship rigging, the fact that it also had my first halberds...

I probably wouldn't get it again, though, unless the price was low enough that getting another dragon* would be worth it.

*clearly the highlight of this set, looking back over my post. :roll:

by **ottoatm** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:39 am

heh heh... well... I don't think this set is soooo bad. There are worse. When I was younger, I really liked this set. I don't think I'd bash it quite so hard, although it is certainly a bit of a mess. Probally a 4/10 for me.

by **JoshWedin** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:05 am

This set caused my rather insignificant dark age. In college I would still buy a few sets here and there. One day I stopped in at Toys R Us to pick a lego set and this is the first thing I saw. I didn't buy another set for about 5 years. I still built with my own collection but I was convinced that Lego was though.

Josh

by **TwoTonic Knight** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:44 am

Azaghal wrote:Not even a 1 for the dragon, TTK?

Objectively, you are all right about this set. Subjectively, I have a (small) soft spot for it, since it provided my first (so far only) dragon.

It's a zero for me, but I certainly understand others having a soft spot for sets they grew up with, or provided them with a special piece or figure. I probably have more dragons than I need, and I think there are better sets for getting a dragon, so it wasn't really a factor in my rating.

by **The dark tide** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:05 pm

I loved this set. It was one of my first castle sets ever. I do not understand why nearly everyone hates it. :evil:

I thought it was excellent, the witches head and hat are nice, the dragons not too shabby either.

by **footsteps** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:13 pm

Ah, halloween colours. How appropriate that this thread and this set are resurrected from the dead. Not much has improved since it was started 4 years ago! :wink:

Does the designer of this set still work for Lego? Termination with cause would have been kind.

Alan

by **MarioDAlessio** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:18 pm

I actually like the colours of the Fright Knights castles together with the minifig designs I think they stand up quite well.

I never purchased this set even when I saw it heavily discounted. I think it was still common in stores in Sydney around 1999 together with the dragon powered carriage set 6047/6099 Prison Transport. The 6097 Night Lord's Castle moved far more quicky in stores.

I always preferred to pick up other smaller fright knight impulse sets that were good for army building like 6004 Crossbow Cart.

You could get a better willa set with a cat and fireplace, 2872 Witch’s Fireplace. The feelings I had for a long time in not having a green dragon are now gone as the current undead/castle knights and those of the Vikings dragons are far superior.

In summary a set I had many opportunities to buy at low prices and one I will never regret not buying.

Mario

by **Lord Felix** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:25 pm

When I was young I was attracted to this set, but, even then I saw that I wouldn't use most of the pieces; I just wanted the ladder rigging as I called it. I really dislike it, but, it isn't that bad; we can look at other things and say worse about them!

by **Patron of the lego** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:06 pm

I have PART of this set... and I have to say that the halebred thingy is pretty cool. It would of been cool if it was based on the industrial age, but NOT the medieval age.

by **Tower of Iron Will** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:13 pm

The dark tide wrote:I loved this set. It was one of my first castle sets ever. I do not understand why nearly everyone hates it. I thought it was excellent, the witches head and hat are nice, the dragons not too shabby either.

I didn't hate this set when it first came out; my problem was with the faction as a whole. It was good for parts in the least, worth the money.
-Tower

by **arc** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:10 am

The problem with it, imho, isn't that it's too fantastic, it's that it's badly designed and it doesn't really "imply" anything. I look at this, and all I really see are some Lego bricks, whereas if I look at many of the other Castle sets, I see a cart, or a tower, or whatever.

A dragon drawn skyboat or whatever this is supposed to be is a pretty tall order if one actually wants the thing to look presentable, and this just falls short, way way way short. That would be a difficult project for anybody, and I don't think it's a particularly good idea for an official set.

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