Random set of the day: Black Knight
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 6009 Black Knight, released during 1992. It's one of 9 Castle sets produced that year. It contains 24 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$3.25.
It's owned by 6,618 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 $79.00, or eBay.
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'Tis but a scratch!
The horse has seen far too many amputations in his day.
@MCLegoboy said:
"'Tis but a scratch!"
A scratch?!? Your arm's off!
@MCLegoboy said:
"'Tis but a scratch!"
This guy’s cheating. He’s got extra legs, an extra head…
I wish I'd been willing to buy multiples of the same set when this came out. I'd love to have more than one of this guy. Also, I love that one of the back-of-the-box alt builds made the knight taller by sandwiching a1x2 brick between his legs and his torso. https://www.backoftheboxbuilds.com/6009-back-a/
The closest Monty Python LEGO set we've got, but let's address the elephant in the room: that is a very strange looking coconut.
@TheOtherMike:
So you can build one of the Knights Who Say “Ni”?
I have this shield! A great set and army builder. Also that dragon plume is cool!
Reminder that removing the arms from a minifigure can damage the torso. Removing the legs from the hip piece can also be troublesome, but detaching the hips entirely would work for the end of the scene.
A bad representation of Martin Lawrence. Cool set though, and I especially like the saddle clips when they aren’t broken!
Oooh now this is a great set! One of my first! This would be a great gift with purchase.
@Randomness said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"'Tis but a scratch!"
A scratch?!? Your arm's off!"
"No it isn't!"
@allthenamesaretaken said:
" @Randomness said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"'Tis but a scratch!"
A scratch?!? Your arm's off!"
"No it isn't!""
*points at arm*
What's that, then?
This is not one I own, but still have a history with. I remember at some point in elementary school, visiting some family that my mom knew. They had a son who was roughly my same age, but didn't go to my elementary school. However, like me, he was a LEGO Maniac and collected sets. His mom suggested I go check out his collection. I was fairly impressed; he had more Castle sets than I did at the time. I remember some Forestmen and other Castle minifigures. He had combined several sets with each other in MOC-like fashion, so I couldn't be so sure as to what sets he officially had. However, I was struck by this badass knight on horseback, the Black Knight.
The red dragon plumes, the armor pieces, and the wide array of weapons at his disposal ignited my imagination. When I eventually got my hands on some other Black Knight sets, I often imagined the knights crusading in the service of their leader "in absentia". When I got the legendary 6086 Black Knights' Castle in 2012, I found parallels between the armored knight on horseback with yellow plumes and the "Black Knight" from the tiny set. In fact, looking at the head and torso, I'd say they are exactly the same character. Nevertheless, I feel a slight tug to still acquire this little gem from 1992. Someday, perhaps!
@Randomness said:
" @allthenamesaretaken said:
" @Randomness said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"'Tis but a scratch!"
A scratch?!? Your arm's off!"
"No it isn't!""
*points at arm*
What's that, then?"
I've had worse.
@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
" @Randomness said:
" @allthenamesaretaken said:
" @Randomness said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"'Tis but a scratch!"
A scratch?!? Your arm's off!"
"No it isn't!""
*points at arm*
What's that, then?"
I've had worse."
You liar!
@TheEpicLuke said:
" @RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
" @Randomness said:
" @allthenamesaretaken said:
" @Randomness said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"'Tis but a scratch!"
A scratch?!? Your arm's off!"
"No it isn't!""
*points at arm*
What's that, then?"
I've had worse."
You liar!"
'Tis but a flesh wound....
Black knight is a long way from hooooooome
"Right...we'll call it 'a draw' then..."...Next up: Castles and how/where to build them...:D
But also: IS he though? I mean, that armor is really BRIGHT...Plus: he looks a little too "happy" to be, well, "evil"...not judging, the only "Black Knight" I know of as a hero is Marvel's 'second' one (their 'first' was a villain though...)
I’ll bite your legs off!
I miss those plumes, nothing beats the look of an army equiped with those.
@TheOtherMike said:
"I wish I'd been willing to buy multiples of the same set when this came out. I'd love to have more than one of this guy. Also, I love that one of the back-of-the-box alt builds made the knight taller by sandwiching a1x2 brick between his legs and his torso. https://www.backoftheboxbuilds.com/6009-back-a/"
This is a weird thing to see. Alt builds for small sets really had to make experiments with the few number of pieces
Helmet visor raised for maximum kneecap biting potential
Oh, that's my knight! I've never understood why he's called black knight, when he's greyish at the most.
He's one of the most beaten up minifigs I own. He lost his sword and shield, and plumages, his armor is chipped, and his head spins freely on the peg.
@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"The closest Monty Python LEGO set we've got, but let's address the elephant in the room: that is a very strange looking coconut."
I'd put the Evil Knight in CMF series 7 even closer. He has the right heraldry too.
This was among the first sets I bought when I became an AFOL in1993. I am still using some of the parts from this set in my display collection.
@TheOtherMike said:
"I wish I'd been willing to buy multiples of the same set when this came out. I'd love to have more than one of this guy. Also, I love that one of the back-of-the-box alt builds made the knight taller by sandwiching a1x2 brick between his legs and his torso. https://www.backoftheboxbuilds.com/6009-back-a/"
ok so this absolutely has to be a Monty Python reference by the designer, to the same film, in the form of the Knights Who Say Ni, whose leader is absurdly tall.
One of my first sets! Very nostalgic...
@PurpleDave: Well, the set didn't come with a shrubbery, so I can see why he'd accost random travelers to try to make them get him one...
My parents were always strongly against buying a castle set as it was too big and expensive, but at least they let me get something small. Shame Lego doesn't sell cute sets like this anymore.
One of my favourite little sets! LEGO: please make more sets like this one again! :)
@brick_r:
Black knights don't have to be evil; they just want to be anonymous. It is too bad that his shield isn't a plain one without displaying any heraldry.
I love the fact that he gets an extra sword and a crossbow (in addition to the standard lance and sword) that you could use to equip your other soldiers.
This is a great set! It was the first set that I had more than once in my childhood. It was a cheap way to get horse and knights for Dragon Knight army. In fact, I had 4 of it, which was something extraordinary for me in the 90s.
In fact, as there was not any possibilities of getting extra pieces from Lego, Brickling or eBay, I even used the pieces for holding the additional weapons for completing my castle!! It was not easy to get extra pieces in those times!
I remember completing this one along with some others from a collection at school. I was allowed to pick a few to take home, but not this one! Ever since I kind of want it for the cuteness of the set.
But not at THOSE prices. Yikes! Castle army builders are scary (rich).
@Binnekamp said:
"... THOSE prices. Yikes! Castle army builders are scary (rich)."
Nowadays they are. When Lego was still regularly releasing castle sets, it was not that bad. A black falcon in new-ish condition might have knocked you down $1.50 when I was buying them, rather than $10-20!
@TheOtherMike:
It’s going to need to be a pretty big shrubbery to give someone that tall any privacy…
Little to build but still a very cool dude - I have like 7 copies of this set in varying conditions from very good with box and everything to "scrapped together from I don't know where".
I'm still confused as to whether this set came with the usual additional 1x2's to fill out the horse's back or if you're supposed to use the weapon rack parts (the box piece count implies the later). Also suspicious they used the most common color of dragon plumes for him and avoided the printed caparison that his 'full version' from 6086 came with.
This guy is most likely meant to be Cagan Blakemoore, the clumsy yet slightly overconfident Knight Champion of the Black Knights Faction of Tarenta. His brother-in-law is Sir Finnegan (possibly CAS167, the most expensive Black Knight ever), who in turn is son to King Richard Lionheart's cousin Shamrock (the castle Ghost AKA The Black Monarch). Blakemoore seems to be in a romantic relationship with Dragon Master Francis Mandrake's Sister ShaLaLa (yes that's the actual spelling). He shows his affection by occasionally 'abducting' her... (info from a never released Castle comic from the makers of 6255).
@StyleCounselor said:
" @TheEpicLuke said:
" @RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
" @Randomness said:
" @allthenamesaretaken said:
" @Randomness said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"'Tis but a scratch!"
A scratch?!? Your arm's off!"
"No it isn't!""
*points at arm*
What's that, then?"
I've had worse."
You liar!"
'Tis but a flesh wound...."
*kick him with his leg*
Look, stop that!
This set is way too good to be reduced to *only* Monty Python references: this was one of the best army-builder sets of the 90s, with a fully-equipped and mounted knight. It was one of my younger brother's earliest sets and I wanted it BAD. Never did get it, though--I figured, in the Bricklink era, that I'd probably gotten close enough picking up 6086, and at the prices this is commanding now...
@Formendacil said:
"This set is way too good to be reduced to *only* Monty Python references..."
But not making such jokes is not in our idiom!
@Formendacil:
It's not _just_ Monty Python jokes. Someone also mentioned the Martin Lawrence film.