[CATC] Edie and Wicker Witches

[Agent Kallus]

 

Edie and the Wicker Witches is my new theme idea. The wicker witches are a group of witches that live in a wicker huts and use witchcraft to keep to the powers of magic from falling into villainous hands. Edie Brightland is their newest initiate and the hero of this theme. I wanted to make the theme that would've kept my sister interested in lego, witches fighting vampires is the simplified premise. A 'girl' thme with mostly female characters but more aimed at 'tomboys' with no minidolls and a less over the top colour scheme. Now I did accidently mis read the rules so I've made 3 sets not 2 but I'll omit the boat from this entry to keep it at 2 sets. ( please excuse my poor photography, I'm used to mostly sharing digital mocs , but I wanted to build something real for this contest.)

Set 1: Black Wicker Cottage - Sinewbat assault £80 - 850-ish parts

 IMG_2022-09-19-19-53-32-807 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

Edie and Vanessa have gone out to seek the witches of the fire swamp in the black wicker cottage. Hoping to meet the vampire pyrowitch Vix to seek her help against the the vampiric warlord Duchess Valeria's dark army. But they have been followed by her forces led Baron Vlod upon the terrifying sinewbat. 

IMG_2022-09-19-20-04-22-758 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

257 part in the roof alone! (It's definitely the most parts dense part of the set but I liked the look so I went for it), speaking of the roof you can take it off ( it is only held in by gravity) to access the witches cottage's interior, a magic research lab with all sorts of mystic niknaks.

IMG_2022-09-19-19-59-01-309 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

IMG_2022-09-19-19-57-54-463 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

fish for lava carp in the fire pool! It also include transparent stands for the witches broomsticks, the sinewbat and the Vamp-flier. i was designed to work the together with one of the 310 sets 9 the one I deicide to omit from my submission. But the idea is that the witches can commandeer the magisail and then park the boat under the cottage.

IMG_2022-09-19-20-00-58-099 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

set 2: Frostfiend attack on the queen of magic - 97 parts ( but  the minifigures take up 4,4,5 and 7 parts respectively so it's only 77 if we exclude those parts which I think was said to be the rule) 

The Vampire warlord Dutchess valeria seeks to claim the crown of magic form the queen of magic! to that end she has made her vampirc cyromancer underling connjure up a fearsome snowman called frost fiend. Edie has taken the royal staff and seek to free the queen but it won't be easy!

IMG_2022-09-18-18-57-38-962 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

the set features the royal lockbox, wicker throne, and of course Frostfiend!

the ice block trap is makes up frost fiends back but can be removed, frost fiend has a rotating head, one posable arm are one ice cannon arm, that can actually 2 (with 2 clear 1x1 round bricks to serve as icy ammutiion) 

IMG_2022-09-18-18-56-08-431 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

will the Vampire Valeria succed in taking the crown?

IMG_2022-09-18-19-07-31-547 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

yes she will.....

 [catergory 2] Set minifigure lineups 

set 1- Black wicker cottage -sinewbat assault £80 set 

IMG_2022-09-18-21-11-13-626 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

Vanessa ( pre-betrayl), Edie ( wannabe witch outfit), Linny the rangerscout (like D&D rangers in training meets the scouting association), Billie The nercowitch, Nyssa the bogwitch, Vix the pyrowitch, Vamp-flier Veela (with large flying machine backpack), Wolfman mercenary, Baron Vlod.

Set 2- Frostfiend Attack on the Queen of Magic, £10 set

  IMG_2022-09-18-20-41-15-463 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

Edie (wannabe witch outfit), Helfelde the Queen of Magic, Duchess Valeria, Vampire cryomancer Vadim

set 3 - Ambush in the fae woods, £95 set

IMG_2022-09-18-20-38-17-725 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

Tommy the rangerscout (with tree disguise), Cesillia the centaur witch, Glaumbeth the dragonwoam witch, wolfman bandit, Edie (Forest journey outfit), Vampire Knave Vespianya, Vanessa (vampire hoard armour)

bonus picture - tree disguise IMG_2022-09-18-20-38-29-481 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

set 4 - Vampire Magisail ( there are pcitures of this set's build on my flickr), £10 set 

IMG_2022-09-18-20-42-46-628 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

Vampire warrior Vilma, vampire Swordswoman Vrai, Baron Vlod, Luxwitch Gracianna

Set 5 - Valeria's Vampire Sky castle £170

IMG_2022-09-18-21-01-01-810 by Bismuth83, on Flickr

Valeria (Vampric high queen of all magic outfit), Baron Vlod, Vampire warrior Vilma, Vampire Sunbreaker Viggo, Edie (True Witch outfit), Clarissa the bloodwitch, Synthie the Cryowitch, Drasna the dragon woamn ranger, Tommy the rangerscout, Linny the ranger scout.

[Daiman]

good line up, love the Snow Golem.

[Mandalorianknight]

See, I've seen lots of good builds for this contest (yours included ofc), but one thing I felt was missing a bit from a lot of entries was story/a realistic theme. Yours has a solid story setup and hits a marketing demographic that lego would totally buy into. It sort of reminds me of a "cooler" version of elves, and I could totally see my little sister playing with these if they were around when she was a kid. (She did not enjoy friends, and preferred ninjago)

[CrappyMocMaker]

Great concept for a theme, and the minifigure lineup is really cool!

[Legochaek]

I really like this! Good luck in the competition. 

[Agent Kallus]

On 9/20/2022 at 9:03 PM, Daiman said:

good line up, love the Snow Golem.

Thanks, I'm glad you like him because I messed up and made 2 £10-15 sets a d wasn't sure which to omit and which to include but you've got me thinking that I made the right choice 

On 9/20/2022 at 9:51 PM, Mandalorianknight said:

See, I've seen lots of good builds for this contest (yours included ofc), but one thing I felt was missing a bit from a lot of entries was story/a realistic theme. Yours has a solid story setup and hits a marketing demographic that lego would totally buy into. It sort of reminds me of a "cooler" version of elves, and I could totally see my little sister playing with these if they were around when she was a kid. (She did not enjoy friends, and preferred ninjago)

Thanks, I wanted to try and think about  the idea of the theme overall and (why it would hypothetically exist) and not just the individual sets so I glad to see that worked out. 

On 9/20/2022 at 11:24 PM, CrappyMocMaker said:

Great concept for a theme, and the minifigure lineup is really cool!

Thanks, I had made quite a few more that fit into the theme so I was able to pick the best of the designs for each faction, I so wanted to do a little bit of storytelling with the different variations of each characters, like you can see Edie gets more Witchy outfits as the story progresses, and someone switches sides and the vampires take the crown etc.

On 9/21/2022 at 9:10 AM, Lego-fire said:

I really like this! Good luck in the competition. 

Thank you 

[JJ Tong (zfogshooterz)]

I gotta say, the Black Wicker Cottage looks really cozy, interior and exterior! The lore is also a nice read too 

[CobaltMoon98]

Love the idea and minifigs! What did you use for the armor on Vampire Sunbreaker Viggo and the Duchess Valeria figs?

[Agent Kallus]

On 9/23/2022 at 5:52 PM, JJ Tong (zfogshooterz) said:

I gotta say, the Black Wicker Cottage looks really cozy, interior and exterior! The lore is also a nice read too 

Thanks. I really wanted to used the half cylinder 1x2 bricks to give the cottage a woven look, but I only had them in black, I had use the parts from 4 forest men's hideouts just to get the bricks for the cottage  I'm glad you like it.

8 hours ago, CobaltMoon98 said:

Love the idea and minifigs! What did you use for the armor on Vampire Sunbreaker Viggo and the Duchess Valeria figs?

Thank you 

I'm assuming that you're talking about the torsos but just in case I'll go through all of it. 

Helmet - Valeria : Realistic Viking ( unprinted from the Sanctum), Viggo : fantasy era troll helmet. ( Plus a tiara inserted into the helmet pinhole for the Queen version of Valeria)

Neck Attachments - Valeria: Darth Vader neck attachment, black soft cape. Viggo : none, Queen Valeria has the same as regular Valeria plus a purple shoulder armour piece ( I think it's from Vedyeo but I got them from the online pick a brick)

Torso - Valeria and Viggo : Ninjago Crystallised general torso backwards with Frightening Knight arms ( I want to use that torso ( with the corresponding legs) for a big fanastay army so I'm hoping it'll appear on the online pick a brick), Queen Valeria uses the Crystal king's torso also from Ninjago Crystallised.

Waist attachments - Valeria and Viggo : none, Queen Valeria: clone commander 2008 plastic Kama

Legs - Valeria and Viggo: crystallised general legs, Queen Valeria: Crystal king's legs.

 

 

[CobaltMoon98]

Thanks for the thorough run down! I think the backwards torso was tripping me up in my bricklink searches. Good use of parts! Might have to incorporate them into my own factions.