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The Big daddy

9468 Vampyre Castle - The second largest set in the theme, and ultimately lives up to the hype, but how does it score compared to other MF sets?

Very, very big set. A box which barely fits into a CAR SEAT. I bought this set along with a few others, but I'd recommend building this set last when you collect MF.

I took the time to take pictures of this set myself, mostly good quality, which you'll see throughout the review.

The box

This box is massive. Has pocket holes, which are in extremely big sets, (which it is, 948 pieces) with all the features, but really should show a moonstone version of the 1:1 scale of the minifigures, as I wanted to know how big they were.

Remember back in the old days when the massive sets have flip-out boxes which showed the features? Yeah, we need those, especially for these type of sets, would have loved it so much. I remember an old Dino Attack set of mine like that, and the T-Rex eyes being able to be tried out. They could have included a light in the box to show the glow in the dark pieces, but that would be too hard.

On the MF website, in the background you see the castle - and here is LEGO's "derpy" moment - they put in the wrong castle. Well, it is the right castle, but the wrong version of it. They are showing the PRELIMINARY image of it, with the white moonstone and the yellow moonstones instead of the dark green one and the purple one. A big derpy there. One of the good things about the prelim version is the smiley Lord V, c'mon Lord, show us a smile ;)

Minifigures

6½ minifigures in this set. The half being the skeleton, who I do not fully count.

Lord Vampyre

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I'll start off with Lord V, as he is the main man of this set (the main figure of this is his bride, though ;))

I like this vampire in terms of clothes, to his predecessors. The first seems more Vampirific (thank you, Berrybrick, all credit goes to you :P). See his review of 9464 for his thoughts on the vampires. Lord's costume is ultimately better than the others, but his head is too cartoony. His slightly older one from Series 2 seems to happy though, the Studios one seems more like a blood loving, serial killer, scary vampire, to me. The new hairpiece used from 2010 onwards is good, more slick and easy to use. Lord's GiD face is good, but it is a PAIN to get off, or even to swerve to his menacing second face. The capes they use these days for vampires are always screwed up by the time you get them on the figure, you have to bend the cape, then put it in half and try and put it on, and it always ends up making the collar part look terrible. However, if you want the cape, you have to get this set. Some nice back printing, which reused for the Zombie Butler in 10228.

Vampyre's Bride

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My absolute, most favourite female minifigure ever.

What a minifigure. She is wrongly accused of having the same torso as Elizabeth Swann, who has a completely different print, however they share the same hairpiece, but not hair colour.

A great hairpiece, which is the best choice, even though some other hairpieces wouldn't be bad. I'd really like it if she had a highlight printed in her hair, like a shade of purple or white. Anyway, her head is nice, but like her hubby, her head is almost impossible to take of without doing damage to the figure. If you get this set, put her face onto her smiley face instead of the other, if you don't, you'll have to manage the pain of the damage you'll cause to the figure :S. I really like the ripped dress design, which suits her really well, the only negative is there is a lot of peach colour around the chest area, which should be white. Nice back printing too, like most other MF figures.

Dr. Rodney

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Great MFer, though my interest in him as kind of died out.

I do still like him, but having two is good and bad - good because there is more special leg pieces you have, bad because he's more of a one-off minifigure. We won't see one like him again. I like his rapier and gun, and his torso is good. His face is a good expression, but due to the bowler hat, is so far down his head, which is a shame, really.

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