#7094 King's Castle Siege

7094 is one of the largest castle set produced. TLG finally emerged from the dark side of poor set designs and bad 'kid-orientated' sets to produce castle2007, the theme Crowns vs Undead. Undead! Many good elements from the classic castle age were brought back like the old-school sword, helmet-visor and plate armor, horse barding, skeleton army and many many bricks. Also, alot of new interesting elements were introduced with this set...

Base plate was bought separately. Having found the store at coronation plaza (bukit timah) all sets are discounted 15%, for $201 its quite worth it! le modular design such that castle elements can be rearranged in anyway, though strange...

Not many traps. Only a collapsable wall and a fakish turning 'bridge' but who is complaining

Major selling point is the huge dragon (relative to huge castle, menacing)

Rectilinear plan but it works, nicely covered.

Things could be improved/missing
1.) a proper large golden flag of cloth material
2.) plumes for knights
3.) small catapult is small (obsolete)
4.) front gate looks weird when raised
5.) 1 horse only?

Team Crown Knights, 6 , standard sword, axe, bow. New king's golden chrome sword, nice horse barding. I like the screaming face of the bowman. Every character has different facal features. Plus points for the new colour for the helms, metallic silver! King's plate armour is not bad too, in pearl gold.

Screaming head is printed on both sides of the head (hidden by the helm) revealing a more serious smiley face.

Team Undead. Battle axe, new flail, new scythe, new design of skeleton, dragon detail. Black skeleton's face doesnt stand out enough, but i like the undead knight and its glossy black armour + helm

Dragon is huge, it has a 35cm wingspan, all dragons should be of this size onwards. 6 good guys vs 4 bad minifigs and a dragon, quite balanced for a large set like this.

Conclusion, nice to see promising new themes. Worth the money on it just for the sheer size and no. of bricks (973)

($201 + $16 baseplate)