Aha! One of a couple old castle sets that I restored from my lego bin during quarantine! (though I had to order another knight helmet, couldn't find that amongst the rubble)

I loved the Black Falcon's color scheme. Black and blue is such an appealing combination, but aside from SP I and Jay from Ninjago LEGO doesn't use it enough!

Cute

Well, there certainly is a guard. However, that ‘castle’ is way to small to give raiders any value, so what’s the point of the guard?

Cute set though.

A great set for that time.

Good old times when it's not always about fighting battles.

Me or my brother got this (and the other one got a Playmobil set with native Americans) for x-mas one year from my aunt and uncle. We usually only got soft gifts (not sure the English word for it; gifts you maybe need, but that you do not want when you are a kid, e.g. a sweater) from them so I was really happy we got toys for once ;)

Oooo! Classic Castle.

Tbh I am a bit disappointed in Huwbot.
This set doesn't use a single Clikits piece!

Pretty small looking castle.....

A nice little set. The guard clearly enjoys working in his mini-gazebo. But how come the wind is blowing in 2 different directions?

@ecleme11, As @LordDunsany and @PurpleDave have already pointed out, it’s a sentry box.

I love the black Falcon emblem.

The knight is interesting as unique to this set, maybe he found a black falcon shield on the battlefield and is just pretending to be a black falcon to get past the guard? Unlike all the other sets with a horse this year there was no caparison for the horse, which is a shame as would have made an extra competitor in the jousting set. I would also have preferred a castle wall piece at the back rather than red bricks to incorporate into the end of the castle wall when the castle was opened. Does anyone know what the black brick on the right hand side is for, maybe that is way the guard is waving his axe at the horsemen, as he does not want to clean it up.

@Zander said:
" @ambr said:
"Does anyone know what the black brick on the right hand side is for, maybe that is way the guard is waving his axe at the horsemen, as he does not want to clean it up."
Those are the parts needed to fill the gap in the horse’s back if you remove the knight and saddle.
"
Either way, those bricks came out of the horse.
Is this the only time supplementary pieces were included in the front-of-the-box photo?
Imagine brick separators being in modern box pictures.

@Zander:
There were a few other sets where the supplemental horse pieces are seen in the front-of-the-box photo. 6034 is a good example (the grey falcon is seen perched on them). In 6080, some of the pieces are used to make a step to help a knight mount his horse. In 6009, the pieces are actually used as part of the weapon stand for the knight.

@Norikins said:
" @Zander said:
" @ambr said:
"Does anyone know what the black brick on the right hand side is for, maybe that is way the guard is waving his axe at the horsemen, as he does not want to clean it up."
Those are the parts needed to fill the gap in the horse’s back if you remove the knight and saddle.
"
Either way, those bricks came out of the horse.
Is this the only time supplementary pieces were included in the front-of-the-box photo?
Imagine brick separators being in modern box pictures."
See @LordDunsany 's reply above.
In LEGO packaging more generally, it depends what you mean by 'supplementary'. 853111 , for example, has more weapons than the minifigure can hold or carry at one time yet they are all shown on the packaging. If you consider those weapons 'supplementary', then the answer to your question is 'no', there are lots of sets with extra parts shown on the front of the packaging.

As an aside, there were at least three different boxes for 6035 . They all used the same photograph. The picture shown on Brickset was not the box art; it's a cropped version of it. On the box art, you can more easily see the extra parts for (or from!) the horse.

That era of castle sets truly were the best. I'd love this re-released.

Even Kingdoms had smaller sets like this (although not horse included) with the 2 figures (yes conflict unfortunately). So it is possible.

Let's bring it back!

@Roebuck:
Disappointment. A waste of wrapping paper. One less toy. In the US, we don’t really have a defined term for such things, so it’s really up to the individual to decide how to refer to them.

@ambr:
He’s not a very good guard. That’s all that’s left of the Castle after somebody snuck in under his nose and stole the rest.

@Zander:
Those came from the _horse_? Well, of course the guard doesn’t want to clean that up!

@Norikins:
There are degrees of supplementary. Brick separators get included all the time, but are never part of the model. Outside of maybe Classic sets, I don’t recall them ever being featured in the front-of-box image. The V-19 Torrent had a Technic fit that was just used to keep other elements aligned until you were ready to attach them to something else (after which the Technic parts served no further purpose). Almost every set comes with spare small parts, in case you lose one or they shorted you at the factory. The original 2006-2008 Batman theme had extra stickers on pretty much every sticker sheet, in case the end consumer wanted to use them. And every set with a saddled horse comes with filler parts that are intended to be added to the horse when the saddle is removed. They aren’t “extra” like a pile of 1x1 plates and tiles. They do have a designated purpose in the instructions. This was just a time when they may not have assumed people would figure it out on their own, and there may have been a rule in place that anything that was included as part of the model had to be shown on the box front. Or maybe they had some packaging designers who just thought that was a rule.

@Zander:
Having watched both Matrix 2 and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, there is _no_such_thing_ as “supplementary weapons”. There’s just “weapons that haven’t been broken yet”.

I put two of these on either side of the Black Falcon's fortress. I always thought that was what was supposed to be done- these are guard tents for outside the castle gates, no?

@Alatariel said:
" @cabbie said:
"I put two of these on either side of the Black Falcon's fortress. I always thought that was what was supposed to be done- these are guard tents for outside the castle gates, no?"

Yep, for sure. These little guard shelters still exist too. Buckingham Palace comes to mind, or this example from Copenhagen: (https://st4.depositphotos.com/1606954/21790/i/1600/depositphotos_217907578-stock-photo-copenhagen-denmark-september-2018-changing.jpg)
"
Indeed. As already mentioned in this thread, it’s a sentry box.

Great set!! It was simple, but enjoyable. I could not have it as child, but I bought as an adult to complete my Classic Castle collection! Love it!!

@Alatariel:
Those, um...aren’t quite as palatial as the one in the set. Were they, by any chance, manufactured by Crayola?

We don’t really have anything equivalent in the US. Security guards get rather utilitarian shacks, which usually have doors on them and will accommodate more than one person. I know it can’t be the only place we have ceremonial guards posted outdoors, but the only ones I’m familiar with are at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Tomb is guarded by a select group of the US Army. Since July 2nd, 1937, there have been two guards on duty 24/7/365, regardless of weather. The active guards don’t just stand there, but do a very complicated marching routine, which is only interrupted by the Changing of the Guard, or if they have to intercede when someone gets too close to the Tomb or is being disrespectful in its presence. CotG occurs every half hour during summer (they wear heavy wool uniforms year-round), every hour during the winter, and every two hours when the cemetery is closed to the public. In rain, I believe they wear military raincoats over their uniforms, and plastic covers for their hats, but that’s as close as they’d get to one of these shelters until they’re relieved by the next shift.

@PurpleDave, You don’t have sentry boxes and we don’t have fire hydrants, mailboxes on posts at the edge of our properties or metal water-towers - at least not in the UK. A bit OT but those differences plus ones in other parts of the world must make it tricky for LEGO’s City designers to create sets with international appeal.

@bananaworld said:
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Black (k)night is a... long way from home."

Very clever!

@Zander:
Fire hydrants are indeed everywhere in the US, but the other stuff varies a lot by where you go. Mailboxes on posts are more of a rural thing (in fact, in some places all the residents of a street, particularly a dead-end street, will have all of their mailboxes clustered together at the end of the road). High-rise apartments will usually have a wall full of locked mailboxes for each unit, plus a few locked parcel boxes for big packages. More urban houses will often have the mailboxes mounted right on the exterior wall next to the door, or they may have a mailslot in the front door.

I think water towers are also something you see in a more semi-rural setting. The small city where I grew up had one, as did the tiny village where my mom grew up. I have no idea how Detroit guarantees steady water pressure for themselves and all of the suburbs that are hooked into their water supply. I don't know how common it is these days, but I know I've seen photos of NYC where the buildings had wooden water tanks on their rooves.

But none of those have anything to do with the guardhouse in this set, while my explanation of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier directly relates to the purpose of this style of guardhouse.

@PurpleDave said:
"But none of those have anything to do with the guardhouse in this set, while my explanation of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier directly relates to the purpose of this style of guardhouse."
Yes, I digressed. I’m {pantomime dame voice} a very naughty boy! {end voice}

Mmmmm, Black plume...