Desktop Warfare Kits
That's not a catapult. THIS is a catapult!
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Ballista
Trebuchet
NEW Catapult
If you build it, they will run
Some assembly required
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Please Note:
- For ages 8+
- Not suitable for children under 36 months due to small parts
- Assembly required
- Glue is not included with the Ballista or Catapult
- Over 40 pre-cut & pre-drilled wooden components
- Glue
- Fabric catapult
- Ammunition (plasticene)
- Detailed instruction manual
- Over 30 pre-cut & pre-drilled wooden components
- Tendons and bow-string
- 2 Wooden missiles with safety tip
- Detailed instruction manual
- Over 15 pre-cut & pre-drilled wooden components
- Catapult launcher
- Ammunition (plasticene)
- Detailed instruction manual
- Trebuchet approximately 34cm(W) x 19cm(H) x 14cm(D) when assembled
- Ballista approximately 30cm(W) x 23cm(H) x 30cm(D) when assembled
- Catapult approximately 25cm(W) x 19cm(H) x 14cm(D) when assembled
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Heres A Short Vid of the Desktop Trebuchet In Action!!
Ben Thomas, London - 21st Apr 2007
Video URL: http://www.firebox.com/video/796
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Press Reviews...
"Unleash hell on your colleagues with this collection of miniaturised medieval weaponry"MSN - Tech & Gadgets - Jun '09
"If you clash with a colleague, why not get medieval on the pernickety, brown-nosing little weasel by launching projectiles in their general direction from this desktop trebuchet"BBC Focus - Sep '07
Visitor Reviews...
I bought one of these awhile back and while I can greatly recommend buying these from Firebox if you buy them. The company that supplies them is very bad, my one came with half the parts missing and despite 6 months of emails asking where I could buy replacements no replies.
Not Fireboxes fault but I recommend checking for all the parts before beginning construction so that it may be returned.James, Essex - 13th July 2011
I want the Ballista plzzzzz tell me you will stock them well before Christmas!Jack, Newcastle - 22nd November 2010
Firebox says: Unfortunately we don't have any coming in in the near future.
My mum got all three of these sets for my birthday and I have only praise for these. They are the most intertaining toy I have recived in a long time and you get a pang of sheer delight as you hit you target of jenga blocks from 10 yards away. Fantastic value for money and a great little gift !! Firebox rules !
(I intend to make a video soon !).Steven E, Wymondham - 24th April 2008
The catapult is great. I needed it for a physics project (trying to make coursework more interesting), and it is perfect. The range is great for indoor work, and it is easily adjustable.Helen, Birmingham - 31st December 2007
I have now bought both of these kits and they are both really good fun.
Richard Nelson, Somerset - 29th October 2007
I bought both of these kits to keep me occupied during the bank holiday weekend, and they certainly succeeded. Firstly the Ballista, this kit is of the slot together variety and so will go together in about 30 mins or so. Stringing the thing took a while though and a third hand would have been useful.
The first test firing was a bit of a damp squib but with a bit of tweaking I had the supplied ammo soaring across the garden at invading gnomes.
The Trebuchet is a glue together and so takes a bit of drying time, I found that you could put together lots of the sections simultaneously and then wait for them to dry so it's worth reading ahead in the instructions. I found that some of the plans that were supplied were a little out on the measurements so I would suggest dry fitting where possible so that you can make adjustments before the final gluing. And so it was into action, a couple of miss fires and then the now usual adjusting time later I was out in the garden eyeing the gnomes again. The Trebuchet instead cleared the fence and tried to repel the neighbours. Smashing kits.Chris Jones, Cambridge - 29th August 2007
Brilliant, I got just now and I it is drying as we speak.Webbo, - 30th June 2007
This is one of the most amusing products available, it is quite easy to build, and once finished will require some time to dry. Unfortunately, I found that the plasticine supplied was not heavy enough to fire pieces across a room, but the problem was solved with a bag of pennies. The best projectile I have used is rolled up tinfoil, it is light but will stay in a ball.Matt Whitfield, London - 24th June 2007
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