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Great question. I always wonder this myself. I think it's a combination of very bad designers and cost avoidance.

Fortunately for the Salt Vampire; however, (and the reference to Star Trek?), the Genesis project (hidden deep within the cavern) attributed to reviving the Salt Vampire during the search for Spock. The rather jittery dancing bug began dancing wildly as if summoned by the future hope of a Wham reunion.

I was looking through Brickshelf images recently and found this rather unique castle. It's has a much different design and look than traditional grey castles, so I thought I would share:

had watched one too many reruns of the old Star Trek series and was always fascinated with the thought of Spock the Vulcan having green blood. *alien*

Thanks to you and Jipay, my Display Name was changed to Pollster. >:-(

I didn't. One of the mods must have. I have a message in to Jipay???

But he then began scratching intensely... Almost as if he had an infestation of the...

In looking at the sets, I do like the figs and the accessories. The shields are pretty slick: Check out the cape: And the minifig torso's are pretty nice: These pieces appear in 6087 (Witch's Magic Manor):

Yoda and Chewie win an all expense paid date with the Halloween Amazon! Good luck ;-) .

Then a bowl of Figaro's Fantastic Chicken-A-Soup-A went flying through the air 8-

Throw scoops of clam chowder out of the window at the street merchants. A glob of crabby-shell infested chowder landed on the face of a rather distraught bike rider. The man made a terrible grin and moaned, "...

You to IS. Thanks for your contributions to the Halloween Forum. Hope you and the other members have a frightfully fun Halloween night!

So, I'm reading two major areas that influenced the success (or lack there of) relating to this them. - One was in fact a very poor design - And 2nd, an unrecognizable theme that was more fantasy than Medieval. In regard to the 2nd point, I did not mind this at all. I like a fantasy story and appreciate the "fright knights" (even with their "batty" helmets". In fact, I think the concept of the dark knights is rather clever and breaks traditional themes. Witches, wizards, dark knights, and dragons I like. In fact, more sets relating to these areas might be rather refreshing (vs. knights tournaments, traditional castles, and Camelot-related themes). I think it's really more attributable to bad designed sets (mainly the castle structures). I compare this castle sub-theme to Dino Island of Adventurers. Overall poor design.

The Fright Knights Theme first appeared in 1997 as some would call another sub-theme of Castle. By no means can it be considered Classic Castle, and in looking at the sets closer, the theme is probably more along the line of later KK sets, but with much better figs. I only own a few of the very small promotional sets to this theme always thinking that most of the collection was pretty bad. As I look at some of the sets now, they definately are a little better than I thought, at least containing some very good figs and pieces. I think the lack of popularity of Fright Knights was the poorly designed castles. Take for example Night Lord's Castle (6097) pictured below. Great concept - a spooky dark castle tower with a witch lord on top. But look at the design. The overall construction is poor and similar to KK and some other themes we've seen Lego produce, the set is a Monster Mash of various pieces and colors. What are your thoughts of the Fright Knights theme? Were they in fact Frightfully Fun, or rather Dreadfully Designed?

Ghouls, Goblins, and Witches: Gather around the caldron for the announcement of the most Spookiest of Spooks, winners of the Eurobricks Most Spookiest Halloween Minifig Contest (2006): And the Winners Are: The Halloween Haunts thank you all for your spooktacular contest entries. They were all most frightfull! Happy Halloween and I wish you a most frightening and haunting occasion! *skull*

yanked her head off like it was the wrapper of a tootsie roll pop.

I think it's because of the overall dark/black look of the fortress. I had a feeling it would be more popular than the King's Castle.

Great review Zane! And I loved the story (nice way to do an image review ;-) ). This looks like a neat little set. I wish I had purchased when it came out. I love the figs the most (esp. Frank and the Ghost). Hope others might share a review of the remaining two Monster Sets: - Vampire's Crypt - Curse of the Pharaoh

I just finished updated all my Grave Stone images and shared my final Grave Stone structure, Dead Man's Bridge. Link provided above.

Final update to Grave Stone images, the Haunted Mill:

Image update to the Spooky Shack:

Not a chimney, but rather just an old tin vent for air to get in and out.

Some of my earlier Ghost Town MOCs use a Halloween background. Thought I would update these with a more "spooky" feel with real background images. I think the result is much better:

The "putrid water" of Grave Stone dried up many years ago, but there is a rumor that it still runs underground deep beneath the Whispering Windmill. Actually: I did have another bridge early in the development of the Grave Stone MOCs. It was much longer and ran over blue plates. I really didn't care for the overall look, and ended up wrecking it. This is much better (as it uses brown bricks instead of the original color (lt. green)). Point made though, but Grave Stone is now just bricks in the wind...

It's listed as one of the Halloween threads. Here's the link: Studios: Werewolf Ambush Image Review