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Castle Christmas

Well. It was indeed a Lego Castle Christmas at our house. Santa came through bigtime for Justin as nearly the ENTIRE 2007 Castle series arrived on December 25th leaving us in plastic brick heaven for more than a week.
Specifically, Justin opened, then built the 7093 Skeleton Tower, 7092 Skeleton's Prison Carriage, 7009 The Final Joust, 7092 Knight's Catapult Defense, and the Grandaddy of them all 7094 King's Castle Siege.

We started off with the Skeleton Castle. Very cool with the "Jaw"-bridge and hanging cage for the princess! The Red Dragon was a really cool bonus with this set.

There sure were a lot of bags for that King's Castle. By far the biggest set we've attempted together. Justin was very patient building in stages.

We built the castle in sections for a few hours each morning over 3 days of the Christmas week. Justin would follow along and add the pieces as we followed the directions. We would stop after a couple of hours just so we didn't get burned out, but it didn't take long to come together. This set (and series) is off the charts as far as playability right out of the box. Justin has been having skeleton and knight battles right from the start.

Dragon attack!

Placing the banner on the top tower!

We only come out at night!

Double Dragons!

All along the watchtower...

The King is ready for anything. He seems to have captured the Wizard's staff.

Creator 4918 Jet

Just like with the 3 in 1 set for the car and truck we dissasembled the existing model, the rescue copter 4918 and tried another model with one of the other sets of directions. Justin was psyched to build this little jet and did a great job all by himself. I helped find some of the pieces because we had taken it and a couple other sets apart the day before and had to put away all the loose pieces before we could rebuild. It went quickly and Justin was zooming around the house in no time. I really like the intake vents on the forward part of the wings and the engine design on the tail of the fuselage.

Creator 4939 Truck

Justin and I took apart the remains of the car with the pop up doors from the 3 in 1 Creator set 4939 and decided to build one of the other models that the set had directions for. This Truck cab didn't take long at all to put together and Justin did a great job again being patient and following the directions. I reall like the swing out doors and the spoiler on the back of the cab. The only setback was that we were missing one of the one nub yellow angle pieces so we were short on the right side of the front bumper. I decided to use two of the dk grey pieces to make the bumper look more complete. Cool set.

City Fire Trucks! 7942 & 7239

Justin did both of these sets completely by himself. Just some supervision from Dad but otherwise he followed all of the directions and assembled all of the pieces himself. I did tie on the hoses to the small nozzle and reel pieces. These sets are really cool looking. The firemen minifigs are cool and have great equipment. We had several fires at the Police Station as soon as they were all put together... and Jenn was napping.

Mars Mission 7695

This was our first set in the Mars Mission collection and surely wont be our last. Justin likes these guys a lot and there are some really cool larger ships, both Astronaut and Alien in the collection. I like the new white/orange color scheme for the space stuff. Its a nice change from everything grey/blue/with yellow windows in the old sets. Justin likes that this set came with a cool green alien guy, and of course the Astronaut-Pilot, his ship, and very cool gold visor.

Recue Copter Creator 4918

Lego Recuse Copter. Justin put together just before I left for a long weekend trip. He's really getting good at following the pictoral directions without my help. This set was small enought that he could search for all the pieces he needed himself. I really like this helecopter. It looks just like the big Coast Guard Copters that roar past the bluffs by our house.