Weekly Set Review: [Black Knight's Battering Ram]
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Weekly Set Review: [Black Knight's Battering Ram]
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This week’s set is 1971 [Black Knight's Battering Ram].
Black Knight's Battering Ram was released in 1993. It is a part the multi-theme Variety Pack 1967 which was only available in America. The ram has a raised panel to stop arrows. This set comes with one siege worker and various accessories.
This week’s set is 1971 [Black Knight's Battering Ram].
Black Knight's Battering Ram was released in 1993. It is a part the multi-theme Variety Pack 1967 which was only available in America. The ram has a raised panel to stop arrows. This set comes with one siege worker and various accessories.
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One guy to man a battering ram? That's a little stingy, yes? Beyond that, though, I like all the pieces in the set. The wagon wheels are always usefull, and the weapons make up for the sad excuse of a battering ram. The guy with scale maile is also pretty cool, that's one of my favorite torsos.
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This set is okay. Good for parts, decent fig, some weapons. Not a great design, might be good for besieging chicken coops, that about it. I give it a 5/10.
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Re: Weekly Set Review: [Black Knight's Battering Ram]
LOL! Thanks for the giggle, Josh, I needed one. Perhaps we can use this to assault RubberChickenKnight's fortress? Or Emperor-James' chicken faction.JoshWedin wrote:might be good for besieging chicken coops, that about it.
Agreed on the flimsyness of the battering ram. I've always thought those wheels look too thin for a large siege weapon and go with 4x4 round bricks in brown instead. Perhaps Black Knight's Go-Cart would have been a better name for the set?
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Nice one, Bruce! This looks like an OK li'l set. I wouldn't keep it together, but I'd give it a healthy 8/10 because as I speak the remains of my latest Vladek Encounter purchase poke their ugly wierd-colored pieces out of the pile of Lego in front of me. This comes with a nice fig, wheels, and some weapons, and probably wasn't too expensive either.
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Nice fig(with shield), but the design stinks. Cool idea with the arrow shield, however it seems a little to far to the front to be effective.
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Hm, I'm surprised nobody mentioned the magical term "army builder" yet. It's a cheap classic minifig with a lots of weapons after all...
The battering ram is ridiculous. But -- it's the only portable siege weapon the Black Knights possess. How were they ever able to gain their realm?
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Hm, I'm surprised nobody mentioned the magical term "army builder" yet. It's a cheap classic minifig with a lots of weapons after all...
The battering ram is ridiculous. But -- it's the only portable siege weapon the Black Knights possess. How were they ever able to gain their realm?
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I must agree with JoJo and most of te others. It may be a poor battering ram but it has some great pieces. A knight with a weapon or two four brown wheels. And yes the realistic part isn't realistic at all, and it is terribly small, but hey, it's better than a lot of sets then and now. A 8/10 then and a 9/10 now.
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It wasn't really that great an army builder set, because you would end up with four wheels for every figure. The figure is great, but you could get him in quite a few other sets at the time.Jojo wrote:Hello!
Hm, I'm surprised nobody mentioned the magical term "army builder" yet. It's a cheap classic minifig with a lots of weapons after all...
The battering ram is ridiculous. But -- it's the only portable siege weapon the Black Knights possess. How were they ever able to gain their realm?
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The Black Knights gained their realm by being the only faction with a boat. They owned every island.
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