I've been playing with Lego since I was four years old, in 1983. Unlike many fans, I never had a dark age, though throughout my higher educational career, I kept most of my Lego stored away in a shed at my parents' house. In the past year, however, I was able to move into a house with a basement that I am planning to transform into a den of all things Lego.
So, with that in mind, I recently recovered all my old Lego Castle sets from my parents' storage. After washing the dust and dead (and some not so dead) spiders from the sets, I disassembled the sets (several of them had not been taken apart since the day they were built). I packed them approximately 400 miles to their new home and am currently in the process of rebuilding them (with a bit of washing out the missed spider carcasses).
Throughout the years, I've been fortunate enough to acquire nearly every Castle set from the Kings Castle released in 1984 to King Leo's Castle, released in 2000. And many other sets in between (I'm a particularly big Adventurers fan)
So, I thought it might be interesting to blog a bit about each set as I attempted to rebuild the past. Just to clarify, this isn't a review blog. Enough people have reviewed these sets and I don't want to hassle with taking a ton of pictures. Though that doesn't mean, I won't tell you what I like and dislike about the sets. What this is, is, a hopefully coherent, stream of consciousness writing about my thoughts and feelings on each set, with maybe a bit of comparison and contrasting with other themes and sets and a dash nostalgia and historic context thrown in for flavor.
I hope it is interesting for you.
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