There was also a small cart ( 6011 Black Knight's Treasure) and a small boat ( 6018 Battle Dragon).The seafront and hotels for foreign tourists in Opatija, Croatia, on its stunning Adriatic coastline. The Falcon's complement of siege engines was rather small, comprising only two catapults from 6030 Catapult and 6059 Knight's Stronghold. They owned two castles in total, as well as a small wall segment with a tower that was under siege by the Crusaders in 6062 Battering Ram. Knights usually wore a fixed-face grill helmet and a breastplate torso piece in either blue or black. Most of them had black helmets, legs and arms and a blue torso piece adorned with their crest, a black/white falcon on inverted background. Soldiers of the Black Falcons were quite strictly uniformed. In 2005, two Black Falcon shields were included in one of the Harry Potter sets, 4768 The Durmstrang Ship, and although unconfirmed by LEGO in 2012, a Black Falcon Knight appears in the set Kingdoms set 10223 Joust. Thus, the Black Falcons can be considered the longest-lived (eight years) faction of the Castle theme. The last two Black Falcon soldiers were included in 6057 Sea Serpent from 1992, a set of the Black Knights, that still appeared in catalogs from 1994. The fortress was also the last new building of the Black Falcons and marked the beginning of the steady decline of this faction which then merely appeared as side characters in sets of other factions. It was later reissued as part of LEGO's Legends line.
This initial difference in strength was never overcome as the Black Falcons always had fewer releases than the Crusaders.ġ986 saw the release of 6074 Black Falcon's Fortress, which is still considered one of the most elegant castles ever released. One of the first sets of the Falcons included a castle ( 6073 Knight's Castle), which was considerably smaller than its counterpart from the Crusaders ( 6080 King's Castle). The Black Falcons were introduced together with the Crusaders in 1984 when LEGO relaunched their Castle theme after the discontinuation of the first knights faction that started in 1978. This may suggest that Black falcons existed in the same timeframe as the Kingdoms line. An assumably high ranking Black Falcon knight appears in a Kingdoms set in 2012, as an opponent of the Lion Knights.
At the time, no Crusaders castles were being made, but Black Falcon's Fortress was, suggesting that the faction should be called "Guardians" and the Black Falcon was a character (like the Black Monarch) who led them. A US catalog from 1989 makes reference to the "Forestmen", "Black Knights", and "Guardians of the Gray Castles". In Canada and Australia, they were known as the Eagle Crests. Sets including the Black Falcons first appeared in 1984. Neither the name for their faction nor the faction itself is official the name comes from the set 6074 Black Falcon's Fortress. The Black Falcons were an early faction of LEGO's Castle theme.
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