Description
6105 Medieval Knights is a Castle set released in 1994. It contains a horse, three Dragon Masters minifigures and one Wolfpack member.
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The Crusaders were one of the various factions of LEGO’s Castle theme. The first sets that involved Crusaders first appeared in 1984. The last regular appearance was in 1992.
History
The Crusaders were introduced together with the Black Falcons in 1984 when The LEGO Group relaunched their Castle theme after the discontinuation of the first knights faction that started in 1978. In Canada and Australia, the Crusaders and Black Falcons were known as the Lion Crest and Eagle Crest factions, respectively, however in 1991-92 the Lion Crest knights used the Crusaders name.[1]
One of the first sets of the Crusaders included a castle (6080 King’s Castle), which was considerably bigger than its counterpart from the Falcons (6073 Knight’s Castle). During the following years the Crusaders would grow to one of the biggest Castle-themed factions ever, with at least one release in every year from 1984 to 1992, a tally rivaled in number only by the Black Knights or the later Crown Knights.
As contemporary factions, Crusaders and Black Falcons were shown to engage in peaceful competition with each other, as seen in 6021 Jousting Knights from 1984, as well as in military conflict, as seen in 6062 Battering Ram from 1987. Both sets were the only ones were the two factions appeared together, except for the Accessories sets. Another set where the Crusaders appeared with another faction was 6060 Knight’s Challenge from 1988, this time with the Black Knights.
Crusaders also featured many halfway civilian buildings, 6040 Blacksmith Shop (1984) and 6067 Guarded Inn from 1986, which was one of most popular Castle sets ever and also the first one to be reissued as part of LEGO’s Legends line in 2001 as 10000 Guarded Inn.
After the advent of the Forestmen in 1987, it was implied that the Crusaders were at odds with these newcomers, since a Forestman appeared as a prisoner in 6042 Dungeon Hunters and a lone Crusader was seemingly attacking 6077 Forestmen’s River Fortress in 1989, which was the last guest appearance of the Crusaders in a different theme.
A second castle was added in 1990, 6081 King’s Mountain Fortress, which was the first castle ever built on a raised base-plate. This set’s release marked more or less the beginning of the end of this theme, since the small catapult from 1991 and the last Crusaders set, 1463 Treasure Cart from 1992 did not appear in any catalogs.
Although it has always been implied that there was some kind of king, there was never a distinct minifigure that filled this position. The first king minifigure would not appear until the introduction of Royal Knights in 1995.
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