Skeleton Tower (#7093)
Reviewed March 9, 2009
# of pieces: 398
# of minifigs: 6
Pros: Clever features, huge dragon,
lots of minifigs, working drawbridge,
fun playset.
Cons: None
Full Review: I won this set as a auction on eBay.com (used), and put it together last night. Overall I am very impressed with the design and creativity of the castle series, and this set is a good example. The working drawbridge is cleverly designed as an evil skeleton's fanged mouth with chains descending from the eye sockets. The drawbridge raises and lowers by turning a spoked wheel on the side of the castle, and the bottom part of the jaw folds out to allow entry. Another distinctive feature is the "bone jail" where we see a captive princess. The curving ivory fangs fold down in the front of the jail to let the prisoner in and out.
The red dragon's limbs, wings and jaw all articulate. If you are collecting the dragons, the black dragon is in the King's Castle Siege Set (#7094), and the green dragon is in the Troll Warship set (#7048). There is a good number of minifigures, including a knight on horse back, a princess with two facial expressions (happy and frightened), and a very cool evil wizard with two skeleton minions. Unfortunately, every time you touch the tower, the little fangs that decorate it, tend to fall off.
Please see our photos below. 
Photography by my talented wife
(who is the real brains of BrickBrains):
You can see in this photo (left) how the drawbridge's "mouth" folds open, and is raised by chains running through the eyesockets using a turn-crank on the side.
The bone "cage" is one of the neatest features of this model (right). Three of the "fangs" fold down to let the prisoner in and out. Look at the princess' frightened expression . . . her head piece can be rotated to make her happy again (see below).
The good knight kneels before his princess
(see, she's happy now!).
This is exactly what it looked like when I proposed to my wife. Only in place of the horse, there was a cat . . . and in place of the knight there was . . . me.
Otherwise, it's identical.
Uh oh . . . looks like it's going to be one of THOSE days for our brave knight.
Here you can get a sense of the size of the dragon in comparison to the knight figure.
Gulp! I sure hope the king has worker's comp insurance to cover our knight's burns and gnaw-marks!
Oh no! More bad guys!
(I must admit, though, the evil wizard
looks pretty menacing).