Random set of the day: Axe Cart
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Today's random set is 4806 Axe Cart, released in 2000. It's one of 22 Castle sets produced that year. It contains 28 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$3.
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Smells like the new millennium!
I love the guy’s cartoonishly evil face. He looks like a 10-year-old who burns up ants with a magnifying glass for fun.
"OX cart! I said we could do an ox cart as a small set..."
I like it. It’s a well-named set. Except I think those crossbows could’ve been replaced with something more axe-y. It’s an Axe Cart, not an Axe and Crossbow Cart.
I don’t understand the guy’s face though. Somebody help me figure out what I’m looking at. Is he sleeping? Or does he have hollow, soulless grey eyes (with guyliner)?
Is that stubble or freckles? And does he have a Voldemort nose or is that part of his stubble/freckles? I feel like I can’t see what I’m supposed to see here.
Is this the first RSOD I've followed that I own? I think it is--and I own it twice!
KK1 never had things quite put together an next to some of the more classic Castle themes, and this little set exemplifies the Bull Knight approach: huge 4×4 wheels, way too heavy for one person to push in real life. Still, I did appreciate getting five weapons for one fig and while I don't necessarily need multiple Weezils, I do like all his constituent components.
Look into his eyes... and DIE!
Can someone enlighten us on the historical accuracy of this set?
Axe me again how this works.
@CarolinaOnMyMind said:
"I don’t understand the guy’s face though. Somebody help me figure out what I’m looking at."
Don’t know if this helps much but at least you can see his face more clearly here: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3626bpx84&idColor=3T=S&C=3&O={%22color%22:3,%22iconly%22:0}
I feel like this would be a safer and more efficient weapon then 1288.
@emartinez said:
"Can someone enlighten us on the historical accuracy of this set? "
Clearly historical accuracy levels of this set are off the charts... not sure which way though.
@emartinez said:
"Can someone enlighten us on the historical accuracy of this set? "
I’m not aware of any battlefield carts that would have halberds mounted on the front as the axe part of the head would be wasted. You wouldn’t be able to get any lateral movement so couldn’t bring the blade to bear.
There were, however, artillery weapons in the European mid-to-late medieval period consisting of a row of hand canons (very early guns) mounted on a cart, with spears along its front for defence. I don’t believe there was an equivalent for crossbows (as opposed to hand canons), though conceivably there could have been.
Just got unloaded from a show. Tired. Insert obligatory joke about Axe Cop (is that a Simpsons thing?). Bed now.
Now this is the one I remember. I could never figure out if this was Weezil since he doesn't usually wear this helmet. Then again there were other Gilberts and Cedrics too (for example, there's a "Gilbert" with a Norman helmet in 6094). Maybe they're all clones of three different lineages.
Thankfully the saga of these sets continues! A good set, though don't remember much of this whole wave anyway.
Hey another of the tiny little Bull Knights siege carts. For there only really being one castle in this line they did have a lot of those
Wow that is one awful face print. Looks like they gave a marker to a 7 year old and told him to draw a naughty kid face.
That's 2000s Lego, I guess.
@CarolinaOnMyMind said:
"I don’t understand the guy’s face though. Somebody help me figure out what I’m looking at. Is he sleeping? Or does he have hollow, soulless grey eyes (with guyliner)?
Is that stubble or freckles? And does he have a Voldemort nose or is that part of his stubble/freckles? I feel like I can’t see what I’m supposed to see here. "
Yeah, all the KK1 villains, the Bull Knights, had those grey eyes; I presume it was a stylistic choice to make the villains obvious - since I *think* this was the first time that Castle had officially-designated heroes and villains, rather than the classic opposing factions of your personal choice of moral alignment - but from an in-universe perspective, I'm not 100% sure what they signify.
Maybe they all wear very anachronistic grey-coloured contact lenses to make them look 'scarier' or something?
Those are definitely freckles. Weezil here was Cedric the Bull (KK1 big bad)'s adopted son, according to at least some story material, and I think he was early teens, age-wise? So the 'evil kid' vibe a couple of other comments are picking up on was probably quite deliberate.
On a different note... doesn't seem like a very practical weapon, here. It can only roll straight, with no turning ability whatsoever, but the way the axes are mounted require the cart to swing around sideways for them to cut anything. I'm... not quite sure what the aim was here.
Always like the Bull shield design, though!
It seems like everyone in knights kingdom l had a cart. even the king himself had a cart
In my head canon, grey eyes and sometimes red (trolls) in Castle mean the being is under a coercion spell.
When l was a kid, l thought the black lines were closed eyes. But now l notice the black lines are just face paint.
I just love reading through random sets' comments, its hillarious :).
@ThatBionicleGuy:
You mean all the castle-dwelling soldiers weren’t all villains to the Robin Hood guys? And surely Wolf Pack was unambiguously villains.