Welcome lost visitors in the place of fear, where strange creatures meet bats and vampires ! As you escape from the dark forest, the rain begins to fall but hey, what is this place not that far ? a village ? no it's not, it's The Dark Village !

So let’s enter if you dare into the secrets of the Dark Village !

The Origins

I have always been fascinated by Monsters and Halloween, back to my childhood my favorite LEGO theme was Monster fighters with such great sets such as the Vampire castle or the 10228 haunted Mansion which is still to this day one of my favorite set. So with the Frankenstein and Vampire minifigures available for serie 9, there was an obvious opportunity to create the spookiest halloween set ever made.

Inspirations of the project

When you think to create a set based on Halloween, the most obvious choice was to do a castle but with the already existing and marvelous Transylviania Castle another castle would not make any sence. So I prefered to go for another idea, something never made before but which could fit and expand the medieval/fantaisy thematic and then came out in my mind the concept of the Dark Village.

The set :

the set is divided in 3 parts.

First, we have the Witch’s cottage, frog’s soup, love potion are only a few examples of what the witch is doing !

Then we have the Widow’s tavern owned by the gorgeous but nevertheless evil Vampire widow. The tavern features a large dining room as well as the Vampire widow’s room.

Finally but certainly not least we have the Mad scientist’s Mansion. This part was truly a massive challenge to design due to the angular and pointy shape especially for the roof. The first floor includes an Halloween tree and a kitchen. The second level is the laboratory where our Scientist made all his creepy experiences powered by electricity (Yes Monsters can also be eco-friendly). The building also includes the iconic fountain of bad spirits which is the highlight of the set.

I also added a hearse drive by the hunchback to add an extra pinch of darkness in the set.

the project includes 10 minifigures including : the ghost, the vampire widow, the scientist and his creature, the village’s hunchback, the black knight, the witch, and the lost heroine plus two statues and two skeletons

The village is fully modulable and can take several shapes by connecting the buildings in different ways.

Happy Halloween !