LEGO King’s Battle Chariot box set on discount!
In conjunction with the 1 week long March school holidays (this week) in Singapore, Toys “R” Us (TRU) has listed many of its popular toy brands for special discount sale! Among them are the LEGO King’s Battle Chariot box set. It’s usually going for around SGD 40.90 each. Since last week and till stocks last, there is a 30% discount on it and I picked up one over the weekend from TRU Suntec City!
Actually I find the chariot design recommended on the box and instruction sheet too tall and bulky for a single horse to pull. In battle, the speed and agility of chariots are critical. It seems odd that chains are used as reins to drive the horse. If the driver flicks the chains on the horse’s back like what is usually seen in movies, it’s gonna hurt the horse real bad. Which warriors in the right mind would injure their own war horses? The wheels of the chariot are also too large. Do you notice that the wheels are even bigger than the horse itself?
Hence I decided to redesign the battle chariot using only the available LEGO pieces given in the box set and here is my custom built chariot! I have included a driver’s seat for the soldier, though this is not how chariots are usually driven. The rear part of the chariot can still hold the golden treasure chest. The extra pieces are used to build a road block set up by the menacing troll soldiers.
If I’m not mistaken, the king character of this box set is known in the LEGO Knight’s Kingdom series as King Leo. I have been collecting many LEGO Knights box sets (mostly the smaller ones) since the early 90’s. I mixed and matched the various LEGO pieces and LEGO mini figures to create custom characters for my own LEGO Knights adventures series. Some of the characters in my stories, especially the villain ones are provided by LEGO itself over the years in their catalogs.
To date, 9 stories of magical medieval adventures have been summarized by me and each of them is long enough to be expanded into a novel on its own. The stories are all inter-linked and involve the same set of main characters. Another couple of stories have already been conceptualized. Someday, I’ll introduce them all to the world in literature form. Till then, they stay with me as part of my many fictions that are inspired by my toys!
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Hey are these photos taken by yourself? They sure look good. Hope to see more photos of your toys.
Hi LEon,
Thanks! The first one is a LEGO catalog photo. The rest were taken by me. Toy photo taking is hard work, plus photo editing, uploading to the web and fitting them into a blog post!
Looking forward for more Lego blog to come. Thanks for the info. I am poisoned again.
Hi Hippo,
The close up photos didn’t turn out well. Toy photography isn’t easy, especially when my toys are impatient and won’t stay still long enough for me to take their photos
wow..nice to be collecting, thanks for sharing.
Hi The Last Airbender Movie,
You’re welcomed!
The masterpiece of the minifigures is the king, who comes with beautiful armor, torso printing, and leg printing. He also has a dark blue plume…delicious!
Hi Hippo,
Agreed, that’s why I like the LEGO castle knights series the most. I like medieval stuff in general
Hi Juliana, check out this website. It has all castle sets from 1970s to 2010(yet to be release sets). http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Castle
Hi Hippo,
Wow cool, thanks for the link! It’s very informative. It looks like I only missed out collecting the Crusaders and Falcon Knights series, though I have some of their minifigs in my collection, from I can’t recall where