Castles....

[anais]

Ds is currently obsessed with castles. I am trying to find a model of a castle - preferably wooden, but would consider something like lego or playmobil - which has a working drawbridge or portcullis. All the models I have found have either one or the other (or neither) not both.

Anyone got any ideas??

ELC do a wooden castle with a drawbridge which you can pull up and down. We brought one for DS last year,but he only played with it about three times

hi anais?how old is he?ds is nearly 6 and we bought the playmobil castle 2 years ago,it is brilliant but unless the child is old enough to know how to build it it just ends up in a million bits all the time we've put ours in a box till he's a bit older i'll get you the address for a really good castle and soldiers in a minute

look here www.childrenssalon.co.uk/knightspage.html

try letoyvan.com - my 8 yr old nephew is till intersted in them - he is a real history buff and these have lots of accurate features(speaks history teacher!!)

my ds has got the fisher price one and loves it elc have got a good wooden one in atm

Those links are great, thanks, much closer to what I want than what I'd found before.

whymummy, ds is 5, but he and dd play nicely with the playmobil we've got (well sometimes, and tbh it doesn't get played with very much).

We went to visit a castle a few weeks ago and he is particularly interested in castle defences, which is why I wanted one with both a drawbridge and portcullis.

I had toyed with the idea of making one, but I think my plans have got a little ambitious now!

I've just been to look as DS1s wooden castle and it looks like you could probably add a port cullis to drop down in front of the gateway, behing the drawbridge. I'm not sure how you'd do it but I can give it some more thought

You can get added extras like seige towers for the ELC set so it's great for buying little presents for.

Letterbox have some nice ones see here . I'm quite tempted for my ds and I know he would like the catapult!

I'm with fio on this one, I found the fisher price castle 2 years ago at our local rubbish dump!! My ds was then 2, since then I can honestly say it's been the most frequently played with toy - anyone that come round after school always gets invited into "castle games". I've bought various bits along the way ds favourite being "the dragon".. but when it only cost 50p to start with, extras seem insignificant!!!

Anais

ASDA are currently doing a fantasy castle and figures as a set for under £20.

Was considering it as a present for someone myself. (and before anyone says it not me, I already have 3 castles)

I seen I think it was a playmobile castle with figure and horses and the castle and poss moat???
for £15-£16 this morning on bid-up-tv. if anyone is intersted.

I'm also putting a vote in for the Fisher Price one. My ds1 and ds2 play with it for hours and even more so since we bought the Fisher Price pirate ship too. They pirate ship has same size cannon as the castle so cannonballs are interchangeable and the pirates can fire at the knights etc etc.
And we buy extras from the ELC range, queen, king wizard,dragon etc

what did you get in the end?