Random set of the day: Mill Village Raid
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 7189 Mill Village Raid, released during 2011. It's one of 4 Castle sets produced that year. It contains 663 pieces and 6 minifigs, and its retail price was US$69.99/£66.99.
It's owned by 6,424 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $326.60, or eBay.
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goats...
Let the flood gates open for there are goats!
THAT'S WHY HE'S THE GOAT! THE GOAT!!!!!
Such an iconic set. One might say it goated.
This set is the PIG. That stands for Pretty Interesting Goats.
"It's owned by 6,424 Brickset members." And I'm one of those lucky, privileged few. Even if you ignore the goats, this is a great set. For one thing, Castle sets haven't given us enough peasants.
GOAT w goats.
I wasn't suave enough to get this during the original run.
I was smart enough to grab it 8 years ago for ONLY double the RRP.
@StyleCounselor said:
"GOAT w goats.
I wasn't suave enough to get this during the original run.
I was smart enough to grab it 8 years ago for ONLY double the RRP."
Suave? Maybe savvy?
As a kid I always wanted the Fantasy Era village and my parents never got it for me. A little older and I wanted the Kingdoms village and my parents never got it for me. Now those two sets go for insane prices second hand, but at least I got an Ideas blacksmith to my name.
The G.O.A.T. of all sets. I’m actually really surprised this hadn’t popped up as a RSotD before. Such a great set with awesome minifigures and animals.
I still have the windmill part built. Never taken it apart, except maybe to swap out a part or two.
Love this set. I got it for the goats (like @StyleCounselor, for about double RRP), kept it because it's such a fun set.
Legogm used an image of this set in their latest guide... a rather odd guide...
So lucky to have known the uniqueness of this set and obtained one while it was still available.
I loved this set when it came out so I bought three of them and built the one. Then when they started to get expensive I sold one and still have the other to sell if I want. I'm pretty shocked this whole line has appreciated so much. I saw someone sell the cas495 out of 7187 with horse and barding for $175.00 the other day which is crazy money.
Trying to decide whether to open and build mine or not.
@TheOtherMike said:
""It's owned by 6,424 Brickset members." And I'm one of those lucky, privileged few. Even if you ignore the goats, this is a great set. For one thing, Castle sets haven't given us enough peasants."
Right. This was one of my most wanted sets for years, just because everyday life Castle sets are so rare.
I got mine clearanced at half off when it was on its way out; I now wish I’d gotten all the ones on the shelf at that price.
I still have yet to open it. I’ve been looking forward to it for years, as it’s clearly such a great set, but these days it commands a price that makes me think of selling it, though I want to keep it.
I passed up on this set because I didn't think the windmill blades would be able to catch any air.
**Face Palm**
It was only $70....
@twentythree said:
"So lucky to have known the uniqueness of this set and obtained one while it was still available."
I had no idea about uniqueness; I just saw it on the shelf at Toys 'R' Us and thought, "That looks cool, I think I'll get it."
The printing on the horse is horse-some.
Vivid memory holding this set at a discount store and deciding not to buy. My biggest LEGO regret.
This series was completely off my radar when it came out, so I don't think I've even seen it before. Fantastic design for the buildings, though. Love how the roofs came together, and the pulley system for the basket looks cool, too.
Who else remembers the Plants vs. Zombies kind of game that was based on this set on the LEGO website all those years ago ? I can still hear the noise the chickens made when firing eggs at the knights.
GOAT! Goat, goat goat goat. Goat goat goat. Goat goat, goat. GOAT.
Definitely one of my most wanted sets. Not even for the goats, indifferent towards them, I just want more non-Castle buildings for my Medieval stuff. But damn the prices it goes for are always so exorbitant, and it’s not a big enough want to break my budget rules yet…
My favourite set of all time, I even wrote an article about it here back in 2020, if you are interest in my thoughts about it and why it's so fantastic:
https://brickset.com/article/49849/featured-set-of-the-day-mill-village-raid
I have 3 sets now, 1 I bought at the time (should have bought more, but thought this was a normal set then and expected a similar set in a year or two:S).
I also got a new set a few years back for $200, but one of my best fleemarked finds was the set for $50 a couple of years ago :D
I came for the goat jokes.
I was not disappointed.
I remember this set was a hard sell with more action theme sets available competing for sales. I found 5 of this set siting in the clearance section of Walmart for $20 each.
Of course, I bought all 5.
@TheOtherMike said:
""It's owned by 6,424 Brickset members." And I'm one of those lucky, privileged few. Even if you ignore the goats, this is a great set. For one thing, Castle sets haven't given us enough peasants."
If these comments are anything to go by, I would say this set has given us -too many- peasants.
BOOM.
You've got to be KIDding me!! How could anyone call this set GOATed!! Has anyone even HERD of it?
Man is crazy how much value you get here vs 2505 Garmadon's Dark Fortress. Same price back then.
When this set was still being sold in stores, I allowed myself to be influenced by online commenters into buying it. £67 felt overpriced at the time and I kind of regretted getting it. I don’t now.
So soon after the Dragon's Prison set already?
Ehm... this set is really cool but I think the aftermarket inflation really sullies it for me. It stops being fun when it becomes that expensive. I'm happy for those who got it, but personally I'll leave this one for the castle mafia to fight over.
To be honest, I always found the buildings in this set a bit Meh.
The only thing that this set has going for me is that it's a farm animal battle pack.
MVR was good for the goats but the real gem was always MMV...
Rejected name: Millage Village Pillage
Probably my favorite set of all time, not even because of the goats.
It was just extraordinary in every way. Peasant-oriented medieval sets was and is a rarity. The buildings are excellent, the figures even more excellent and the animals the cherry on top. With 6918 and 10223 the second wave of Kingdoms sets, inspired to build a medieval world, not just a fight between two factions.
At the time ,Lego-sets, like this, could even be an introduction to history for children: How was life in the 13/14th century?
I miss Lego in the 2010s.
I got this set for the peasants, back in the day. I've actually used the Green Dragon soldiers more than anything else. The timing was about perfect for me: any later, and I'd have hit my "impoverished ages" (like dark ages, but not voluntary).
In hindsight, I wonder if this set would have retained --er, accrued-- QUITE as much value if the animals had seen release elsewhere--say if there had been an analogous City Farm set the following year and a "Farm Explorer Pack" including at least the goat a year later. It's a *good* set, but it's not 10193 levels of satisfying to look at. The other Kingdoms sets have appreciated nicely too, but it seems to be the sets that have *the only one ever released* (goat, specific barding) that REALLY soared.
Goaaat!
M'lord, the peasants are revolting..
@Tupperfan said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"GOAT w goats.
I wasn't suave enough to get this during the original run.
I was smart enough to grab it 8 years ago for ONLY double the RRP."
Suave? Maybe savvy?"
Rico Suave'?
Smood, baby, smood.
I meant what I said, and said what I meant. Whom art thou to question the Counselor of Style?! ;)
This retired just as I got back into Lego, and it was on my wanted list for a few years. I managed to acquire it about 4 or 5 years later for a little under twice RRP, which was pretty good at the time! It's still a very good example of what an excellent set is.
Loge this set. Too bad it’s full of parts that turn into a fine dusty powder with the slightest touch …..
@ElephantKnight said:
"I still have the windmill part built. Never taken it apart, except maybe to swap out a part or two."
How much of it have you converted to white and black?
@Formendacil:
Pretty much. For stuff that people want to army-build, the part cost causes people to start buying whole sets which drives up the set cost. Then people trying to piece together the sets have to buy back some of the parts, which drives the part cost up again.
@xurotaryrocket said:
"Loge this set. Too bad it’s full of parts that turn into a fine dusty powder with the slightest touch ….."
Did that actually happen to yours? That hasn't struck any of my sets prior to the 2013 plastic blends.
@Rimefang said:
" @xurotaryrocket said:
"Loge this set. Too bad it’s full of parts that turn into a fine dusty powder with the slightest touch ….."
Did that actually happen to yours? That hasn't struck any of my sets prior to the 2013 plastic blends."
7598, 2010 release, 6x8 reddish-brown plate, snapped like a graham cracker.
@Rimefang said:
" @xurotaryrocket said:
"Loge this set. Too bad it’s full of parts that turn into a fine dusty powder with the slightest touch ….."
Did that actually happen to yours? That hasn't struck any of my sets prior to the 2013 plastic blends."
Edit above “Love”
I exaggerated for dramatic effect. But, yes it has happened numerous times. If you don’t touch them they can be ok. However, the minute you start to disassemble or reassemble a set with anything less than the maximum amount of care the dark red and reddish brown will snap or crumble depending on the piece. I’ve also seen several instances where the sealed and stored sets weee opened to find many broken pieces. Makes me furious when I think of how many people are holding onto sealed sets of that era for value when the contents are shoddy.
@Rimefang said:
" @xurotaryrocket said:
"Loge this set. Too bad it’s full of parts that turn into a fine dusty powder with the slightest touch ….."
Did that actually happen to yours? That hasn't struck any of my sets prior to the 2013 plastic blends."
My Medieval Market Village and Emerald Night sets from 2009 were riddled with brittle browns of both color varieties.
@xurotaryrocket said:
" @Rimefang said:
" @xurotaryrocket said:
"Loge this set. Too bad it’s full of parts that turn into a fine dusty powder with the slightest touch ….."
Did that actually happen to yours? That hasn't struck any of my sets prior to the 2013 plastic blends."
Edit above “Love”
I exaggerated for dramatic effect. But, yes it has happened numerous times. If you don’t touch them they can be ok. However, the minute you start to disassemble or reassemble a set with anything less than the maximum amount of care the dark red and reddish brown will snap or crumble depending on the piece. I’ve also seen several instances where the sealed and stored sets weee opened to find many broken pieces. Makes me furious when I think of how many people are holding onto sealed sets of that era for value when the contents are shoddy. "
At this point, breaking the seals might lead to a greater than expected decrease in value.
Something just occurred to me. Since today's RFotD looks like one of the Village People, there's a lot of village stuff going on today, isn't there?
I had been fully intending to buy this set when suddenly I realized it had just been discontinued and I hadn't gotten one. I scoured available sources and found Toys R Us still had them in stock, because like everything at TRU, they were selling it for $10 over MSRP. I grimaced and paid the premium. That was the smartest $10 of Lego budget I ever spent.