#lego knights kindgom II

[bluenpinkcastle]

20240510: the History of LEGO Castle day 131. 8780 Citadel of Orlan (2004, 483 pieces, 158 different parts) Citadel of Orlan is a fairly large light bluish gray tower, pieced together from three different sections. The first section is a bridge with reddish brown stairs up to a black trap bridge controlled by two reddish brown rocks attached with dark bluish gray chains. The second section is a four-story, basically hollow light bluish gray tower with green technic poles to allow a minifigure to use a dark bluish gray bar to ascend the tower, where the Guardian has a small magic fire. The third section is a light bluish gray wall with a green brick built serpent hidden under a variety of traps. This set has four minifigures. -This set introduces Rascus, with a green helmet with a full face shield visor, a green torso with dark bluish gray hands and a yellow geometric print, and plain green legs. Rascus carries a white rectangular shield with a brown and yellow monkey head on a green background and a yellow angular sword. -This set also introduces the Guardian, who is unique to this set. The Guardian has a yellow minifigure head with a light bluish gray forehead "v", sideburns, and a goatee, a brown fabric cape, a reddish brown torso with dark bluish gray arms and reddish brown hands, a white circle amulet, a printed dark bluish gray scale mail print, and reddish brown legs with dark bluish gray belt. The Guardian has the only trans neon green spear out of the entire LEGO Castle theme (the others were found in six other Alpha Team sets). -Santis has a red helmet with a full red face visor, a yellow minifigure head with full, thick, black beard, mustache, and bangs, red geometric print armor, a plain red torso with dark bluish gray hands, red pants with a dark bluish gray belt, a red rectangular shield with a medium brown bears head on each end, and a pearl sand blue sword. -The shadow knight has a black angled cheek protection helmet, a yellow minifigure head with thick black "v" forehead print with space between the beard and sideburns, a black torso with a black scorpion on a dark red background, and black legs with a dark red belt. New and unique parts for this set include: -The green 2x3 axle connector with tooth, the green two pin connector joint, the light bluish gray 4x6 brick with two fixed point connector pins, the light bluish gray 4x1x2.66 technic slopes, the medium blue 6x12 plate, the reddish brown 12x12 modified base brick are all unique to this set. -The green 2L axle with reverser handle axle connector is only found in one other set, 8241 Battle Cars. -The dark bluish gray 7L pole was only found in one other set, 10252 Volkswagon Beetle. -The dark bluish gray 12x12 modified base brick is only found in one other set (4860 Cafe Attack) and the black 12x12 modified base brick is only found in three other sets. -The reddish brown 3x8x7 Large Ugly Rock Panel (LURP) were only found in two other sets 8637 Mission 8 Volcano Base and 8877 Vladek's Dark Fortress, and the reddish brown halberd was also only found in two other sets, 7079 Drawbridge Defense and 8781 Castle of Morcia. -The dark bluish gray 6x6 double train roof was only found in four other sets, 7898 Cargo Train Deluxe, 7905 Tower Crane, 9467 Ghost Train, and 10183 Hobby Trains. The green 2L ridged axle connector was also only found in four other sets, 4557 Freight Loading System, 4762 Rescue from the Merpeople, 8446 Crane Truck, and 8479 Barcode Multi-Set. -The 3x8x6 castle panel wall with window cutout was found in six sets in light bluish gray, three sets in black, and one set in bright pink. -This is the first LEGO castle set with a frog :) -Royal blue / blue violet pieces for this set include: round 1x1 bricks, a 4x1 left wave flag, and 2x1 triple convex slopes. Parts inventory for this set can be found on either BrickLink or Rebrickable and a free download of the instructions can be found under the "Instructions" tab on Rebrickable.