LEGO Kingdoms - The Green Dragon Clan

Good day lads. My name is Dux Von Drake Bafis. I am a marquis in Dragon Estate, a march on the border of Imperial City. Beyond our gates are the Mountains of Laruz. My troops are stationed here to protect His Majesty Kingdoms from invaders of the east.

This is my faithful wife, Lady Dursina. She is a daughter of Sir Dominic Dracov -- a knight and Protector of Dragon Clan. Yup, she's taller than me. So what?
Damian Domigo is my adviser. He is a Dragon Mage who knows ancient magic. Rumors said that he owned a dragon but I never saw one, so far.
These are the Dragon Old Guards. They are well-trained with halberd. They are strong that they can use a halberd with one hand. They served my father for many years. Now they are my finest bodyguards and protect our Dragon Estate from unwelcome intruders.

Sir Dominic Dracov, a knight and Protector of Dragon Clan.

Me with Sir Dominic. When in present danger, he is the one who rides out and investigate what is happening at the border. He wears heavy body armor and wields a lance and a black sword. He also carries a large shield. His black stallion is the fastest in this land.
This is our Dragon Black Vanguards. They are masters of spear. With medium breast plate, they move swiftly in combat. They faces are hidden behind full face helm and only I know their true identity. When I'm out from the estate, the Vanguards escort my horse carriage.
Finally, these are my Dragon Marksmen. They are armed with metal crossbow and wear light chain mail.

As a marquis who hold a title Dux, I can raise an army of 20 men. But so far the Dragon Clan is consist of 10 soldiers. I am about to recruit a few more men to garrison the border. That's mean there are another ten mouth to feed and a bagful of goldleon (gold coins use in our kingdoms) to pay these men.

To raise income for my army, I provide escorts to travelers who want to travel beyond the border. The Dragon Black Vanguards also serve His Majesty to protect precious cargo convoys.

Sometimes we conduct black operations by sneaking into enemy's land and steal their harvest and goldleons. Mostly our enemies are the brickmen of the sea - the pirates and the Vickins ( a tribe of axe men).

O minifig, o mini figures.

It has been quite some time I'm not writing in my blog. Traveling a lot, driving from central to south-back to central again. Then north. Again, back to central. And south, south, south for quite a few times for most weekends. Phew ! Even I stopped cooking. Sigh.

My mindset for my minifigs collection has gone astray these days. Instead of having single and unique mini figure, I have this passion of building an army. A massive of identical and uniform-based mini figures. In my case, the Imperial Soldiers and Sailors from the Pirates theme.

If I'm about to have this brigade, or battalion, to what extend? These soldiers will eventually need a fort to defend, a ship to sail, enemies to mess with, war horses to ride and fight. And things will be getting bigger, more complicated and need more space, time and money.

Do I have to stick to one or two theme(s) so I can concentrate at the army? Or do I have to collect different mini figures from many themes so that I can explore the colorful world of Lego?

Make peace and love, brothers. Not war. (Beep beep - R2D2).

Don't show us the evil side of this world. Even in this small world of little brick men.

My First Lego

I was first introduced to Lego products when I was 5. It was my elder brother who gave me a box of plastic men. He got it for free when he was travelling to Terengganu with my parent by MAS flight. I wasn't in the company because I stayed with my grandparent in Ipoh.

For a kiddo like me, it just another toy to play with. But there was something new about it. The figures had movable arms and legs, and they can be disassembled and re-assembled to whatever variations that I want. They were small and I could put them in my pockets. Where ever I went, I brought them with me. I even put them under my pillow when I slept at nights. I started to liking them.

I didn't know how to read at that time but I remembered my brother told me it was Lego.

The year was 1985. It was set 6701 Space Mini-Figures which consisted 2 yellow suit Space-men, 2 reds and 2 whites. They had air tanks on their backs but quite funny though; the helmets they were wearing didn't have visors.

The Simpsons didn't exist during that era but these little brick men got yellow faces and one more thing that I most noticed - they always smile !

So, what was your first Lego?

***Set 6701 was released in 1983. Each of these minifigs nowdays is valued at
USD 35. That's mean a complete set for 6 mini figures will cost up to USD 210 !