The Kiddo received the LEGO Kingdoms King's Castle construction set for his birthday and we recently spent a weekend putting it together as a family. We were impressed with the detail and intricate, yet simple LEGO blocks and pictoral instructions for putting the castle together. It's what we've come to expect from LEGO, and why it's on the Kiddo's wishlists for each holiday and birthday.
If you have a castle/knight fan in the fam, show your kid the LEGO Kingdoms site for some cute mini games and short movies about the characters and contstruction sets. Love, love, love the LEGO characters' expressions. Here's some photos to give you a better view of the detail on the pieces and the castle overall. We had so much fun putting this together!
LEGO employees must have such a fun sense of humor...check out the rat that came with the set, it's in the middle of this photo at the top of the ladder. Of course there'd have been rats around a castle. ;-)
Here's the Kiddo showing how the gate moves up and down, and can lock.
The finished view from the front of the castle.
What a great idea! Post postitive things about a Lego set they no longer make! The only way you can get this is by paying outrageous prices ($175 - $250) to someone who is holding it hostage because you can't get them anymore. My advice would be to promote toys that are still in production instead of one that is no longer available.
Posted by: Gerry | December 17, 2011 at 10:46 AM
This set's still being sold in stores and on the LEGO site. I just checked and Amazon has them available for sale new: http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Kingdoms-Kings-Castle-7946/dp/B003F7YHXQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324137140&sr=8-1
Toys R Us sold out of this set over the holidays last year, so maybe it'll be difficult to find the next week or so again - especially if was being offered on sale.
We received it as a birthday gift from a family member. I'm not affiliated with LEGO.
Posted by: c2cmom | December 17, 2011 at 11:06 AM