Overall 5 bricks : Another great set from the Fantasy Era subtheme, this being the "home" of the Evil Wizard and his Skeleton Army and also defended by the huge Dragon. A real scary tower in great colors with a drawbridge, small catapult and an outside prison. Naturally a must have for a Castle fan but also a very good playing set. A minor setback could be the interior (or better lack of interior) of the tower which is in fact none, this might have been better. On the other hand that would have increased the retail price considerably without improving the playing quality. So overall no reason to distract a brick or star for it. It is still affordable to buy it used so if you come across it don't hesitate to buy it, it will be worth your while.

Building 4 bricks : A nice set to built and not too difficult. You start off course with the minifigures and mean looking fire-spitting dragon. After the drawbridge and the bottom floor with in the back a big spider in his web and left and right ornated by 2 big fiery rock parts and dragon teeth. The first floor is used for the drawbridge mechanism and doesn't leave much room for more interior. The second (and top) floor is the base for the tower and the prison attachment and is mostly formed by several turrets and a tower part. The prison is built of dragon teeth again. The result is a scary building, not very functional but it looks great also thanks to the best and most fun part to built namely the big skull which you mount at the front of the tower !! So not the most challenging built but fun to do.

Parts 5 bricks : A lot of great parts in this set : the Dragon of course, the Evil Wizard and the Crown Princess. The trans orange parts, especially the rock parts and the Wizards magic sparks and a huge load of weapons and other accessories like the big and small teeth. And overall all great Castle parts for all your MOC's. One small point of criticism might be that there is only one Crown Knight to fight these four bad guys including a dragon.....

Playability 5 bricks : Just a look a the set explains the 5 bricks although I must repeat that it takes a lot of fantasy to find a way for the good guy to release the fair maiden but it is the Fantasy Era of course so who knows ......

Value 5 bricks : The used price on Bricklink is at the moment about the same as the RRP as you see which is not a bad deal I think. The price will rise I think in the future like most Castle sets, I found it for € 35,00 so a good deal.

What's not to love about this set? You've got a damsel in distress with her knight in shining armor on the way to the rescue. An evil wizard, animated skeleton and a huge fire breathing dragon all packed in an awesome design of a Tower set. The Tower front has a skull facade to it, the jaw being the drawbridge and the chains that pull it shut or open it coming from the eyes. Spider web and giant spider. There's just a lot of great features going for this set, it makes a great base of operations for the Skeletons in the Fantasy Era theme.

My first castle set. :P

Pros:

• Skeleton face front
• Jaw drawbridge (Or a jawbridge ;D. sorrry for lame pun. sue me)
• Skeleton cage
• awesome wizard (But mine didnt come with a cape)
• Cool sword (Too bad i lost mine)
• Dragon

Cons:

• Skeleton arms (I hate those fixed arms, i like the free arms, like in aquaraiders)
• Bridge opening up at the front (That is just me, i dont like that very much)
• Dragon's fire (lego couldve done much better than it just hanging from the dragon's lip)

These cons are just minor, not major

This is the only skeleton base. Very good and is only one of three that has a dragon in it.
Minifigures-Knight: 10/10-very good minifigure. Silver shinyness is also great.
Princess: 10/10-has weird pants. Double sided head is great.
Skeleton 1: 10/10-good. Scythe is nice.
Skeleton 2: 10/10-flail is a cool weapon. Otherwise it's a regular skeleton.
Wizard: 10/10-amazing. Details on body are wonderful, head details are great along with more details on the hat. Staff is really cool and beard is pretty nice also.

Dragon-10/10-Nice dragon. Flame in mouth stinks but it is able to come out. Details are nice with cool printing all over it. Plus bonus seeing as this is the cheapest set with a dragon.

Skeleton tower-10/10-terrific. There is storage space in back along with towers to place skeletons, cobwebs, and a catapult on one of the towers. The skull face is detailed and looks nice. The mouth is actually a drawbridge that comes up by turning a wheel on the side. The only con in this set is the side pieces with spikes constantly fall off. Otherwise it's perfect.

Hope my review helped!

My review on this set, "Really Good Set" had a 4 rating next to my review. I meant to put a 5, not a 4. Hopefully Brickset users will see this notice before they think that I don't think "this set is as awesome as can be".

Thank you for taking the time to read this.