Customer Reviews

Mega Bloks Dragons: Dragons Fire Storm Fortress

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1 star:		(4)

 

 

A lot of people completely misunderstand how this set is supposed to work, so I feel compelled to review it for customers as it is one of my favorites.

The Fire Storm Fortress depicts a sceen from the MEGA BLOKS movie: Fire & Ice in which the Vorgans led by the evil wizard Xenos have captured the king of the Draigar armies, Fyren Olsef. Imprisioned in the bottom levels of Xenos' ice mountian and watched by the Vorgan guards he cannot lead his army without aid.

Enter the prince of the Norvagen, Dev, who has recently befriended Olsef's daughter and commited himself to uniting the waring kingdoms of the Draigar and Norvagen against Xenos and his Vorgans. With the aid of the remaining Dragons, particularly the flame dragon, Strato Incenus, Dev will free the imprisoned king and bring down the ice mountain fortress of the wizard.

That's the backstory, search amazon.com for the DVD Dragons: Fire & Ice for the full story, it's a sleeper hit that will leave families surprised at it's entertainment and quality.

Now you know what role the toy plays in the ongoing story of Dragons, you can begin to understand the total package. Yes there is a dragon, very pretty too. Colored to match the brilliance of real flames and fully articulated, this dragon is perfection in the three year evolution of MEGA BLOKS toys. The jaws open to reveal a bright red light that activates at the push of a button on his back. I MEAN BRIGHT! :) When you place the dragon on the base unit with a drop of water in the resevoir and attach the pump per the instructions, you get a flash of red light coloring the "smoke effect" from the dragon's mouth. Truly a magnificent little water vapor science experiment!

The Fortress gets bad press only because people misunderstand it's purpose and action features. This set took me less than a half-hour to un-box and build. The fore-walls of the fortress are loosely attached to the base on purpose. If they clicked like other MEGA BLOKS bricks, then the features would not work. When you have king Olsef placed in the cell with the gear driven door in the down position, he cannot escape! Press the red button on the cell base and you activate a 10 second delay (enough time to light and pump your dragon flame!) door open, claw-drawbridge lowers and crashes through the ice walls sending them tumbling down. The king is free!!! Awesome effect! See?! The ice wall is supposed to fall away for the action feature to work. They have less grip to the brick and baseplate studs so they can break away when the drawbridge slaps across them, thus knocking them down. All the other parts included grip as they are supposed to; better than average. I love the blue-ice and white wash look of the included parts making them look Icewind Dale cold!! :)

You can build this set a number of ways to add to the fun, or place it near the Dragon Mountain playset (big, but worth every penny) to re-create the movie scenes. I love this line, and this set is one of the best with unique elements, features, characters and educational value.

I've had this set built and displayed in my rec room for a while, and we've carried it from room to room without much fuss for the kids to play with. Even my 2 1/2 year old genius girl loves to play with it (as long as I am present!!). It's good fun for older kids to explore on their own, but remember to read all the way through the instruction booklet. It'll tell you all you need to know, except how to have an imagination.

I'm going to order more MEGA BLOKS Dragons sets now, because every adult fan of toys should try these out. Kids too! ;)

Best wishes people, and play well.

My boys fought with these things; playing for hours with them. They are pretty durable even with my 10 and 11 year old boys tossing them around.

this ice fortress ice is extremly hard to keep together. it took for ever to get it together. the fire breathing feature is a little hard to put together according to the instructions. the wings break easily if you put pressur on them.

As others have noted, the fortress refuses to stay together. I gave up after almost an hour of building and rebuilding, but my six year-old insisted on giving it a try before relegating it to the junk heap. Result: after about thirty minutes, he chunked the pieces in the box, handed the box to me, and said, "Never mind. It's a piece of crud." Couldn't have said it better myself . . . . The dragon WOULD have been cool, but for the fact that ours came with a severed wing (ball joint broken off in socket). [...]
We replaced this item with some of Lego's Knights' Kingdom line, with much happier results. I like the fact that the Lego product has book tie-ins - not just your usual video/DVD stuff.

Bought this for my son for Christmas. The dragon does breathe a faint mist of 'cold flame' although it's a bit difficult to see (they do specify it works best in low light conditions) but we found we had to refill the water constantly. The wings are a little weak; can easily pop out. Otherwise he really loved the dragon (impressive looking) which is the reason for the 3 stars.

The ice fortress is HORRIBLE. The main ice walls of the fortress wouldn't snap in securely and kept falling down of their own accord (in some cases wouldn't stand up at all). My son was disappointed when the fortress kept falling over before he even got a chance to attack it. Had a neat idea where the ice walls were supposed to explode open and the little dungeon door opens mechanically for the 'good guy' to escape. But please note above: WALLS KEPT FALLING DOWN so was pretty much pointless.

Quite a disappointing toy from Megabloks and not an inexpensive one. Not worth the money; buy a Lego set (at least the pieces will stick together) or just buy the dragon instead.

This toy is extrememly frustrating for my 8 year old because the pieces do not stay together at all. He'll put one into place and a few others that were already placed will fall off. The idea is a fun one, and he would love it if he could get it to stay together at least once. He got 3 fire and ice dragon sets last year, but all of them have the same problem. I guess Mega Blocks just can't build "lego pieces" as well as Lego can.

this set is worthless the cold flame technology didnt work and then it broke!When i tried to move it into another room it totally fell apart.I do not recommend this set.Its just a wastew of money.i shouldnt have bought.

I bought this toy for my son for Christmas and was disappointed with it. When putting it together, it kept falling apart and the ice looking pieces.....they just sit on the display and very easily fall off. I rated the toy 1 star because the only part my son does play with is the dragon and he uses his imaginiation when playing with it.....WITHOUT playing with the part you have to build. It's like i spent $30 for a dragon.

I do not recommend this toy at all. Save your money!