Weekly Set Review: Witch's Fireplace

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Weekly Set Review: Witch's Fireplace

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Join the weekly 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 2872 Witch's Fireplace.

Witch's Fireplace was released in 1998 for the Fright Knights. Willa the witch casts spells with a crystal ball next to her fireplace. Various accessories are included along with a black cat and a bat.

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Post by Formendacil »

Well, this set seems to have been SLIGHTLY better designed than similarly sized Fright Knight sets of the same era, but the fact that it has Willa, and not a soldier, really wrecks any reason for me to get this set.

Parts: 5/10
Playability: 4.5/10
Figs/Accessories: 3/10 (an all-time low...)
Design (then): 5.5/10
Design (now) 6/10

Overall Score: 4.8/10
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Post by Jojo »

Hello!


This set is excellent for parts. You can't have too many black 75° slopes. And even if you dislike Willa the Witch her skirt is a useful black slope as well.


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Post by Robin Hood »

Well I never knew of this set before. I looks ok. I has a black cat, a bat (you can never have enough of those) and well its ok.


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Post by Webrain »

Hi

Bought 3 cause I needed the black 1x2x3 slops, for a small set really nice parts, as a set it's as always with those small ones pure crap

Score: 8/10

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I has a black cat, a bat (you can never have enough of those)
Have enough of those :lol:
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Post by rogue27 »

It was a $2 set, and for that price it is a good parts pack. I wish it included the witch's cape, and a head that didn't look stupid, but you can't have everything I suppose.

I wish they still made small simple sets like this.
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Post by LEGOFREAK »

i never saw this set, or i probably would have gotten it. If you ditch the head, she makes a decent witch, and I have yet to have a cat.
got enough bats though.
there are some other useful parts in there too.

guess it depends on the price..
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Post by porschecm2 »

Hmm...if I found it for a good price, I might pick up a few. For the most part though, I would say that's not too great a set. I'd give it a 4/10.

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Post by The Brick Rat »

Like Jojo and others have said, a nice little parts pack. And if LEGO had built this on a 6x6 or 8x8 plate, it would be a vignette. :)

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Post by J1A3L5 »

I have this set,

The set itself is...well...useless? It just doesn't do anything for me.

As mentioned, the parts are cool: Especially the barrel, cat, bat, black triple 1x2 slope, and 4x4 grey plate.

I'd give the set a 5.5/10, probably.
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Post by jwcbigdog »

I wasn't really collecting when this one came out, Fright Knights kinda ruined LEGO for me. The parts look decent enough, but not good enough for me to but it just for that. My opinion, this is one of the worst sets to be posted in this forum in a while. 4/10
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Post by kajo163 »

Never saw this one...it seems small to me, even for a 2$ (~2SEK) one.

It's a nice fireplace, come to think of it. It looks a little like the one I built in to my inn.

Maybe, then I would have bought it...But just maybe.

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Post by Luís »

I have it.
And, I, suporting by being a kid that grown with Fright Knights, I loved this set.
I'll give it a 9/10.
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Post by Longbowmen »

That was one of my first lego sets....
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