I was lucky enough to have this set as a kid. I was exclusively a Lego Castle fan. After being bought this for Christmas I subsequently spent every bit of pocket/birthday money I had saving and buying up all the castle themed mini sets I could. The jail cart, Wolf pack treasure wagon, hideout, Black knight battle set, rowing boat, crossbow cart, forest men set etc... Ended up with quite the collection and had some truly epic times. This castle was the centre of my universe. 😁 Wish I still had it. Cool review 🫡✌️💚
This is my favorite set of Dragon Knights! It's wacky, but still makes sense! It uses special baseplate VERY well! As a kid I always wanted it (and I still do, haha) and I imagined it's an alive fortress brought to live by Majisto
i was trying to decide whether to invest over $100 into buying pieces to restore this set. Really appreciated you talking about the function of the dragon head and how it looks without it. this review made up my mind to go forward with buying parts.
I had this set as a kid, and I absolutely loved it. It looks impressive, it's a great play set and the dragon is just iconic. Thanks a lot for bringing me back all these memories ^^
Hands down my favorite castle set. It had the best use of the base plate and great play features. What other set would let you execute people by dropping them into a dragon pit?
This LEGO has much sentimental value to me. I remember to this day, sometime in 1993-1995, my mother and grandfather returned from a trip and gave this to me as a present. I built it immediately on the kitchen table and would play with it almost all my childhood. Also had other legos and mixed and matched parts, built my own castles etc. Years later I vaguely remember I also had a Fright Knight castle, but I kind of hated that one. Looked blocky, poorly designed overall. So many years later this summer I was tidying up the attic at the house where I grew up and found in a bag thousands of LEGO pieces. It took me 5 days, but I found all the pieces for this one and built it again. Reminds me of my late grandfather so much... Appearently, this is not a highly valued set today, but for me it is the best ever. Unfortunately, even though I found 3 red saddles, all of them are missing clips, so I used a blue one instead. Also I could only find a brown Wolfpack cowl, not the black one. And the main knight dude is missing his cape... I shall try to buy the replacements these one day.
I like that you confirmed the robber who was dropped into the dragon's den was actually OK after that. =) Fortunately I still have this castle. Got it as a teen in the 90s and I haven't used it in about 30 or so years but recently pulled it out of storage and eventually I might put it back together. Videos like this might be usefull if the instructions are missing, I'm not sure about those right now. Oh, this takes me back to those better days. =)
My brother had this set and still does somewhere, sadly its missing the instruction manual but its fine as I believe most Lego set instructions have been scanned and put online so if we ever decide to go back and make it again, we will be able to do so. Having a huge nostalgia trip looking through your videos!
Except for the goofy black dragon head this looks amazing and really solid even structurally, wish the dragon pit had been used a little bit better, almost a must have for any Lego castle fan
The points corners are something I remember doing. It used to be, if you collected enough and sent them in, Lego would send you a free promotional set in the mail.
Great review. Funny, lots of positive reactions to this set. For me it as the reason to stop with castle, I was about 12 I guess, switched to pirates. Too many huge chunky pieces, and I didn't like the fantasy part of it (dragons, wizards, less and less "realistic" castles defensive wise (but then again, who attacks a castle with a dragon in it, I suppose).
same here with the bit pieces and lack of little peices. I enthusiasm for castle faded after this line, I kinda just got the smaller 1 figure type sets. And I swtiched to pirates too! lol
it surprises me just how expensive some Lego sets were in those days. I calculated in 2021 in my country of new Zealand this set would cost around 190 dollars which is almost the price of the Hogwarts great hall
This is a fabulous set! I've never understood why the other knight minifig was not included in this set though. It's a little odd that a smaller set (6076) is where you can acquire all of the minifigs for this subtheme, but that is such a small quibble in comparison to what you do receive with this set. The pricing for Dragon Masters sets is really odd. I wonder if it has to deal with how common the sets are? I typically buy LEGO collections. This faction has been fairly common with the ones I've bought, but that might just be a coincidence.
7:12 I have to agree. I had the Black Knights Castle first and that kind of spoiled my take on all future raised based sets - only Eldorado looked as good but I never got that one :( It was really the low amount of pieces that turned me off of this set. I remember feeling that the gate for the dragon felt too open. The hidden wall had gaps at the top which could have used a different piece to make it look seemless. I felt the stairs were too much - all sets had mainly used imagination to move soldiers up and down but these stairs simply got in the way of the interior. The gap by the arch/dungeon bugged me alot. The plastic dragon I thought should have had it's arm move like all lego figures(but still cool to have a dragon). I didn't like the odd look of the half red roof - I kept thinking the rain would just get in on the other side. Overall I didn't like the gaps that lego started doing in their sets around this time. I guess it was to reduce costs with less pieces in the kit. But it really limits creativity when trying to build something else out of the set. I always felt this set needed about 20 more pieces to fill gaps and add some more floor boards. I didn't mind the more fantasy elements because it was kind of very basic fantasy. Just a basic wizard and a dragon. And even the wizard could just an old wise man. The rock dragon head I didn't mind because it had small pieces and it was different. The trap door was cool. The front doors were cool, I had always wanted those doors. The dragon coming out of lair was cool. I like the green bushes in the front. I eventually unbuilt it, used the parts to make a cooler castle for a bit before trying to build El-Dorado with what I had. I will note that these base plates were really cool but I do have one issues with them - the ramp has no rivets so figures would always slide down! I could never have a battle with the soldiers moving up the ramp! But for those who were not spoiled by the previous castles, then this set would be pretty cool with it's traps, lair, and dragon!
Born 1986, Dragon masters knights were a great disappointment to me, and i think they ended the golden age of castle lego. Their Castle was heavily advertised in german tv, and i couldnt wait to have it. Turned out the castle was not as big as praised on tv (not many soldiers, just one (!) knight on horseback -think of the previous black kngihts castle: 4!) and far too many sets had the wizzard in it, so he became somehow not very interesting. Maybe just my opinion. Great video though.
I used to have this set but maybe 1/2 of the pieces have gone missing at this point. Can you just find all these pieces and order the missing ones from Lego?
The frills on that dragon dude's helmet were just destined to get lost, weren't they? Sigh. I still have a few random bits of various colors, but no complete helmet remains :(
I remember finding them a bit redundant though... a dragon frill on the top of a dragon helmet? I used to put the large feather on the top of the dragon helmets and the dragon frill on the older helmets that came with the Black Falcons and Crusaders.
Yes, although they did show several different uses for the space. Having a dragon lair in it here is pretty cool. Otherwise its use as a treasure room / storage, or as a prison pit, make a lot of sense. If they had only made it slightly differently so there was a passage along the bottom from the pit to the outside, which could normally be walled off if unused in that build, it would have had an extra use as a sally port or sewer exit. They also used it in some space sets; in that case it could be a mining drill pit or for more height to a warp core power plant thing. They also had that split mountain, and the Dark Forest big-and-small mountain. But yeah, bummer that they didn't have a couple more raised baseplate types.
