Weekly Set Review: Witch's Windship
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- Mr. Shiny & New
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I think this set is underrated; it gets zero points for execution but it's probably a difficult concept to pull off. For one thing, LEGO is trying to build an airship that is powered by a dragon. The piece count has to be kept down (for the price point), and yet it needs enough "features" to satisfy marketing. Most likely it has to stand up on its own (physically) which is why the dragon is above, instead of beside, the airship, on those rigid 'rigging' pieces.
Other builders have built nice (fantasy-themed, of course) airships and the concept is not totally flawed. But the problem of trying to build a convincing airship, with enough 'weapons', etc, in this piece count, overcame the poor designer. This, combined with the hated witch minifig leads this ship to the pit of shame.
I think a good idea for those who hate this set so much would be to try to re-imagine it, using the same approx parts count, while trying to meet the marketing criteria: armed airship, dragon, magic-user (witch?)... It could be a good C-C.com contest
Other builders have built nice (fantasy-themed, of course) airships and the concept is not totally flawed. But the problem of trying to build a convincing airship, with enough 'weapons', etc, in this piece count, overcame the poor designer. This, combined with the hated witch minifig leads this ship to the pit of shame.
I think a good idea for those who hate this set so much would be to try to re-imagine it, using the same approx parts count, while trying to meet the marketing criteria: armed airship, dragon, magic-user (witch?)... It could be a good C-C.com contest
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Couldn't agree more.Mr. Shiny & New wrote:I think this set is underrated; it gets zero points for execution but it's probably a difficult concept to pull off. For one thing, LEGO is trying to build an airship that is powered by a dragon. The piece count has to be kept down (for the price point), and yet it needs enough "features" to satisfy marketing. Most likely it has to stand up on its own (physically) which is why the dragon is above, instead of beside, the airship, on those rigid 'rigging' pieces.
Other builders have built nice (fantasy-themed, of course) airships and the concept is not totally flawed. But the problem of trying to build a convincing airship, with enough 'weapons', etc, in this piece count, overcame the poor designer. This, combined with the hated witch minifig leads this ship to the pit of shame.
I think a good idea for those who hate this set so much would be to try to re-imagine it, using the same approx parts count, while trying to meet the marketing criteria: armed airship, dragon, magic-user (witch?)... It could be a good C-C.com contest
I've always loved this set! It was one of my first lego sets! aaaah, the memories.......
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I have to make my remark, that I would rather buy Playmobil than this set. It doesn't even have any really useful pieces. DISGUSTING SET!
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Almost everyone here keeps saying how bad this set is, but it can't possible be the worst set of all time. It has an old-style dragon, for pete's sake. While it might have poor design, it is one of the cheaper sets in which to get a dragon, and that puts it, not too high, but at least not at the bottom in my list.
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Couldn't agree more.arc wrote: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.
This set has an old-style dragon but that's all it has going for it. The rest of the parts are pretty much useless, the witch was in too many sets, the design is plain poo, and the whole Fright Knights theme partially caused my dark age because it was so inferior to the themes before it. Of this already *@#!$*@! theme, this set is the worst.
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Sadly enough, I actually own this set. The set design itself is very poor, and is one of the worst ones LEGO has ever made. That said though, I did get my only classic dragon out of this set, as well as a Willa torso (useful, even if the face isn't), as well as a crystal ball. So partswise, slightly below average, and set wise... well, we really don't need to go there again, do we?
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Do you still feel this way? While this is no doubt a BAD set, if it helped opened the door for the "fantasy" that's part of Castle 2007, then perhaps this set served a purpose after all.architect wrote:However, Witch's Windship crosses a line of being more fantasy than castle, and that is bad.
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According to InterTran, you've called this set a "collarbone".jokkna wrote:this set can be described in one Icelandic word: viðbjóð(your).
I disagree. Though it is an unimaginative little set, the catapult at least has useful parts.jokkna wrote:ithink it is the next worst lego castle set ever. the worst was set nr 5994.
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Even as a young wee builder, I would always pass this kit by, unintrigued and utterly unperplexed by how "blech" it was.
Albeit, Lego is Lego afterall, and I suppose that some parts could be salvaged from it?
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I actually prefer Fright Knights to Royal KnightsAliencat wrote: and the whole Fright Knights theme partially caused my dark age because it was so inferior to the themes before it.
Hahahahahahaha.footsteps wrote:According to InterTran, you've called this set a "collarbone".
Alan