Random set of the day: Bull's Fire Attacker
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Today's random set is 1288 Bull's Fire Attacker, released in 2000. It's one of 22 Castle sets produced that year. It contains 24 pieces and 1 minifig.
It's owned by 513 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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Fighting fire with fire, eh? Good luck attacking that fire, you will only feed it.
Behold, our Great Weapon, a flaming wheelbarrow! Fall to your knees before the Fire Attacker!
I often load my wheelbarrow up like that too!
I hope there isn't a flame war in the comments!
Bull's Fire Attacker, although still laughable in his assault, is still more impressive than his colleague, Bulls**t Attacker, who comes armed only with outrageous claims and insults.
I went to my friends house and had 6098 or 6091 in his LEGO box and I took some parts.
My friend came over to my house and saw I had 6089 and 6091 in my Lego box and took some parts.
@namekuji said:
"My friend came over to my house and saw I had 6089 and 6091 in my Lego box and took some parts. " lmao
I don't even want to know what will happen if it malfunctions. Especially as it seems to be made of wood.
Love the shield and the bull emblem. I don't get how the flame is supposed to work but I get a cool shield, a helmet, sword, and a spear.
Grade A little set.
I have many questions about how exactly this little thing works...
Ah, yes! Weapon carts were the ATVs and microcopters of that era.
Box art is rather nice, though I'm not sure how does he control that fire...
What you get when you combine the wheelbarrow with the Holocaust Cloak. No Dread Pirate Roberts necessary.
Knight 1: Look I've just invented the portable flamethrower.
Knight 2: Oh, I'm so scared.
I love the wheels of this vehicle though.
@TheOtherMike said:
"What you get when you combine the wheelbarrow with the Holocaust Cloak. No Dread Pirate Roberts necessary. "
THERE WILL BE NO SURVIVORS!
Not a bad small accessory set.
Good old Knights' Kingdom, when men were men, swords were butter knives, and everyone, including the king, had some idiotic cart to drag around.
Loved it anyway, chrome sword is cool even if it's a butter knife.
One of the last Lego Castle sets my brother and I ever got. This was where the Castle theme lost us simply because they had a new faction every year and didn't revisit old ones anymore. Crusaders, Black Knights, Black Falcons, Forestmen, Dragon Knights, Royal Knights, Fright Knights, and now this meant we had a bunch of one man armies.
@SideSalad said:
"Good old Knights' Kingdom, when men were men, swords were butter knives, and everyone, including the king, had some idiotic cart to drag around.
Loved it anyway, chrome sword is cool even if it's a butter knife."
It’s just nostalgia, but I prefer the swords that way.
@pumaman said:
"One of the last Lego Castle sets my brother and I ever got. This was where the Castle theme lost us simply because they had a new faction every year and didn't revisit old ones anymore. Crusaders, Black Knights, Black Falcons, Forestmen, Dragon Knights, Royal Knights, Fright Knights, and now this meant we had a bunch of one man armies."
See, this is where things were more accurate. In this time period, you absolutely would have had hundreds of different factions. So, while I know that the main reason was probably just to sell more toys, I applaud Lego for their historically accurate depiction of a feudal society.
@TheOtherMike :
Eh, once the planning stage was over, he was mostly dead weight anyways...
Nice little siege cart with a shield to protect the wielder and plenty of weapons, only lacking a barrel of fuel to supply the Greek fire.
@SideSalad said:
"...swords were butter knives..."
Not all swords from the Middle Ages had sharply tapered points. Some medieval examples and illustrations (see the Wikipedia article on Knightly sword) show swords with similar "butter knife" rounded tips.
@LordDunsany:
I believe Sir Robin used one of those, at the request of the knights who followed him into battle. Their casualty rate during the charge went down as a result.
I guess this was where Cedric got his start. Leaving his home kingdom with only a portable flamethrower on a cart (according to one comic book, at least, he was the thirteenth prince of a far away kingdom; but when the king divided up the land between his sons there wasn't enough for Cedric to get a share. So he left home and travelled to the Knights' Kingdom, where he became obsessed with stealing King Leo's throne), before he teamed up with Gilbert the Bad who designed him all the exaggerated siege engines seen in 6096.
(That much - Gilbert (the guy with the eyepatch) designing all Cedric's siege weaponry - is definitely canon. The rest, I can't guarantee one way or another, because that comic book brought up several details that no other story media touched on, so I don't know how seriously they are to be taken.)
At some point, Cedric also found a silver helmet and tamed a dragon (4818), but THAT was never referred to in any KK1 story material that I know of...
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I had essentially the Fright Knights equivalent of this set, 2538, which was given away as a free toy-with-meal at one of the Legoland Windsor restaurants around 2004... I guess they had a surplus left over after the Shell promotion ended.
I will never not enjoy Knights Kingdom (the OG version) and I am inclined therefore to look fondly on this set... but is it good?
Honestly, although KK1 broke with previous Castle themes in a lot of ways (my beautiful yellow-trimmed boxes!), it has always felt very congruent with Fright Knights to me in having a tonne of random impulse-sized sets, the vast majority of which I would never have known existed were it not for the Internet. Most... aren't very good, just a chance to get a(n admittedly decent) minifig and some random parts. As an example of the genre, this is perfectly average.
This reminds me of the real historical weapon called the hwacha, that was used in medieval Korea, though I doubt that is what TLG was thinking when they made it. It was more of a rocket/firework launcher than a flamethrower, but replace the flames with flick missiles, and it's a decent approximation for the genre.