CC Set Review: 1712 Crossbow Cart

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CC Set Review: 1712 Crossbow Cart

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Join the Classic Castle set review discussion. Please post your opinions on the set play ability, piece selection, design, etc. Which sets stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!

This week’s set is 1712 (1732) Crossbow Cart.

Crossbow Cart, one of the smallest Dragon Master’s sets, was released in 1993. It features a Dragon Master soldier pushing a cart armed with two crossbows, a spear, a sword, and a shield.

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Not a bad little army builder set. You get the guy, a shield and a boot-load of weapons along with some assorted pieces and two wagon wheels. It was a good deal. The actual build was uninspired but who was buying this for the cart/wheelbarrow anyway?

LEGO has made similar sets for many of their factions and, frankly, I appreciate them.

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Generic soldier; sword, spear, shield, two cart wheels, for what more can you ask? Maybe a better faction? But this is the perfect army builder.

And I don't mind the cart either. I'm not sure it is in anyway realistic. But I think it makes a decent little ballista type siege weapon for kind of a throw away scene detail...

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This is a very nice little set, if you want weapons.
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I'm not a big fan of that torso, and the head is pretty bad. Otherwise, as with everyone else, awesome for the assortment of weapons.

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Bruce N H wrote:I'm not a big fan of that torso, and the head is pretty bad.
I'm sure his momma likes him. ;)

I wasn't a big fan of the torso either, until I put black arms in it. It looks much better that way.

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This is an OK set, but I generally don't like the single-minifig siege weapons that have appeared in various themes. If you're short on weapons, this set will certainly get you started, but I don't see the minifig being a particularly inspiring army builder.
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I always enjoyed the Castle (and all other) themed polybag sets like this. I had bricks and sets, but what I did not have were many special elements, accessories or generic soldier figures. Often these were so attractively priced that the cons were far out-done by how much you got in the baggie. Was it perfect as a stand alone set? Hardly, BUT it was a complete and well armed soldier with a a printed shield and faction torso. As time has gone on, the retail current replacements for these often do not have as complete a set of arms and armaments. Five or six of these really made a difference for any Fire-Breathing Fortress. :)
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Oh...another set from my early years! I loved these "small box sets" because they were soo cheap for a small kid to buy! I remember it cost 750 drahmas (around 2 euros) wich was a really affordable price for the age of 8. I also remember my dad giving me money to buy food at school wich i secretly kept in order to buy small sets like these. As far as i remember i had bought 6-8 of these just to make a dragon master army!
A quiver would had made this set even better but in those early years "crossbowmen" for some reason didn't had carried one. So they had to make that one shot worth! :lol:
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Oh...another set from my early years! I loved these "small box sets" because they were soo cheap for a small kid to buy! I remember it cost around 700 drahmas (todays money 2 euros) wich was a really affordable price for the age of 8. I also remember my dad giving me money to buy food at school which i secretly kept in order to buy small sets like these. As far as i remember i had bought 6-7 of these just to make a dragon master army!
A quiver would had made this set even better but in those early years "crossbowmen" for some reason didn't carried one. So they had to make that one shot worth! :lol:
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