Examples are 6062 Battering Ram, 6067 Guarded Inn, 6103 Castle Mini Figures, and 6059 Knight's Stronghold. Lego has re-released some old Black Falcon sets. Catalogue dioramas in the late 1980s also showed the 6074 Black Falcon's Fortress under siege by the Forestmen. 6062 Battering Ram featured the Black Falcons defending a castle wall section from a Crusader siege, also implying armed conflict between these two sides. Thus the Black Falcons were one of the longest-lived factions from 1984 to 1994, when the last sets with their minifigures were discontinued.Ħ059 Knights Stronghold featured the Black Falcons attacking a gate defended by the Black Knights, which implied that the two factions had been at war with each other. 6074 was quite unique because it was the first set to include the octagonal corner pieces and the yellow Tudor wall, as well as the only set to have a blue Black Falcons flag.Īlthough no new Black Falcons-specific sets would be released after that, Black Falcon figures would appear as guests in other sets, such as the Black Knights' 6059 Knights Stronghold (1990) and 6057 Sea Serpent (1992). The main difference was in the structure as the two defense towers had been moved to the front, and were made with more rounded (octagonal) corner pieces, leaving room in the back for a small roofed residence/chapel with a yellow Tudor wall. In 1986, the Knight's Castle was replaced by similar-sized 6074 Black Falcon's Fortress ("Draco and the Black Knight" in the UK, "Eagle Crest Castle" in Australia ), which had the same type of minifigures (including the two mounted knights). The Black Falcons were also featured in other sets the same year such as 6021 Jousting Knights and 6030 Catapult. Like the yellow castle, the set featured special hinge pieces that could open up the castle to take a look inside and get at the interior. It came with six minifigures two archers, two spearmen, and two knights mounted on horses. In 1984, the first Black Falcons castle was 6073 Knight's Castle. Although the term Black Falcons wasn't explicitly and internationally used to market the faction in its original incarnation, Lego later picked up the term in its own marketing to refer to the earlier theme. However, the faction was never labeled as anything other than "Castle", nor was it ever officially recognized as a theme. A 1989 US catalogue includes an ambiguous reference to the "Guardians of the Gray Castles". Some fans in the United States have labeled this faction as "Black Falcons", and Australian fans have called them "Eagle Crest", though at the time each term only appears once in any official Lego literature – both in regional names for set 6074. The minifigures that were associated with this symbol almost invariably had black pants, black helmets, and blue torsos with black sleeves, often with the bird emblem on their chests and shields (with a blue or gold border). The sets that were released during this time period predominantly featured the motif of a black and white bird against a black and white background, split down the middle. The 1990 castle sets brought a further changes – as knights now had armor breastplates and helmets with movable visors. Many of these new pieces would be included in future castle sets. Examples are: one-piece horse, horse saddles, new knight helmets with fixed visors, feather plumes (there were three types in five colors: red, blue, yellow, white and black), waving flags and bows and arrows. The 1984 castle sets featured many newly introduced pieces and weapons. In 1984, Lego released the first Castle sets that had more realistic castles, knights, and colors (such as gray castles rather than yellow) that more accurately depicted the Middle Ages compared to the Classic Castle sets from the late 1970s and early 1980s. As there were no horse-specific pieces, horses were built entirely of bricks. It was not again until 1990 when knights came with movable visors and armor breastplates, as the knights between 19 had solid grill helmets while their "armor" was just a texture on their body. These knights also wore a coat of arms (either a tunic or breastplate) over their body. Often known by fans as "Original Castle", the knights featured unique movable visor pieces, with eye slits, and a crest that runs backwards from the frontward-facing part of the visor along the helmet. 375 Castle (often called the Yellow Castle) is the most well known set from this time. The Castle period from 1978 to 1983 predates themes or factions, and is often known as "Classic" Castle. Assembled vintage 1978 Legoland 375 (the "Yellow Castle")
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