But just not the ones we want...

Lego seem to be have a castle in so many different themes. It obviously isn't just old castle heads that love them. But is this saturation of castles stopping an actual dedicated new castle theme?

Has Lego found that licenced castles sell more? Not just talking about harry potter and lotr, but also Disney and One Piece etc.

Has the current 3in1 castle been a commercial success? This set got me back into Lego as I felt nostalgic when I saw it and bought it for my 7 year old son.

Im not that fussed personally on buying more large castle sets (I have LKC and both the recent 3in1s and like building my own). What I would spend money on though are;

- Battle packs for the new factions

- More 3in1 type stuff around the £100 and below mark, I love the versatility. A siege 3in1 would hit the mark.

- some nice clever small builds like peasant houses, farm related, wolf pack cave... other unique ideas they can think of at the 500-1000 piece point.

All this could come under the theme 'Lego Medieval' or 'Lego Castle' I know I havent said anything particularly new but come on, surely it's an instant win.

A 3in1 siege set to go with a 3in1 castle and some battle packs for good measure. That's hours and hours of fun right there.

This is a rack I made for my blacksmith at my tournament build.

My vikings were in dire need of new shields, those 20+yo stickers are not in great condition. Young me wasn't gentle with them, surprised the figures themselves hold up.

So new stickers ordered, but you also need the actual shields. Onto bricklink I went. That's dangerous. Found the shields and handles. And then checked what else they had. That's where picture 2 comes in. 13 more vikings, all waiting for the new stickers. Should come today hopefully. Because this looks good, but with nice colourful shields it should look even better!​

More pictures soon(tm)

Like everyone I'm painfully aware that recently all the castle sets have been huge display sets or CMFs. I really miss the charm and versatility of small sets like the sort I grew up with.

Would love to understand if anyone has any that they would really recommend to add to the collection! The blacksmith attack (kingdoms) and good wizard (castle) are definitely ones I'd like to pick up. I have the Wizard Cart and Magic Shop as older sets which are great and the Sea Serpent GWP is very high on my list.

Any ones you think are particularly great or would like to see brought back?

Great MOC of a fountain I found on Rebrickable, which I further modified to add the golden dragon and staff.

You can see where I've left space in the middle for the upcoming sleepy dragon inn.

MOC design by Baukplaus

https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-200493/Baukplaus/medieval-city-fountain/#details

Mosquito come, suck your blood

Made some more rocky boys, this time in more of a cohesive faction! This may be my first true faction, come to think of it 🤔

Let me know what you think!

Finally was able to link up my walls and port MOCs from the last few months of building my Kraken Faction castle.

Pyke place market, kraken gates, guard towers, skull tomb, coming together with some bridges and islands and docks.

Will add more details and fun stuff around the edge of the water eventually but need to find some inspiration for small builds and wharf areas to get those going in the coming months.

Working to get a hilly foundation built out to the right for my main castle but my modified LKC and cathedral are there for now.

Nearly every exterior brick was touched as I did a face lift on the castle I built nearly 5 years ago. My primarily goal was to make it seem bigger and more elegant.

Recently came into these minifigs that are all complete (minus human king’s crown). They are in perfect condition, trying to get an understanding of what they are worth, or if it is better to sell/trade them with the set, which I believe I have complete.

Not trying to advertise, genuinely curious as I’m a Ninjago guy and castle is so foreign to me.

For a long time I wanted to achieve war hammer head that had square cross-section and had symmetrical both ends - something that can not be achieved with just a snot bricks. And here is my solution, to me it's groundbreaking, but I am quite sure somebody had already done it before me. Enjoy!

Back in July, I shared my original Hunter’s Cottage MOC, which received a lot of positive feedback. The original design was built in a dollhouse style, with an open back to make the interior accessible.

While many people liked that approach, others felt that a medieval cottage should be a fully enclosed building. So I decided to take on the challenge of creating an alternative version!

Meet Hunter’s Cottage – Modular Version!

You can find the instructions on Rebrickable: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-280391/BricktobeWild/hunters-cottage-modular-edition/

The new version has a fully enclosed exterior, with floors connected by stairs. Closing the back also gave me the opportunity to expand the interior and add lots of new details.

Some of the additions include a wild boar trophy inside, inspired by a tutorial from bricks_fan_uy on Instagram, and a tanning rack on the exterior wall based on a design by marinbrickdesign.

The original Hunter’s Cottage was itself inspired by a cottage built by legoznbricks on Instagram, which gave me the initial spark for my own design. I always enjoy seeing how inspiration from other builders can develop into something of my own.

I’m really happy with how this version turned out. It was an interesting challenge to revisit an existing MOC, take the feedback on board, and see how much I could develop the original concept.

I’ve included renders from several angles, including a view showing how the roof can be removed to access the interior. Last two images shows the original dollhouse design.

Building instructions are available on Rebrickable — you can find them by searching for Hunter’s Cottage – Modular Version.

I’d love to hear your thoughts! Which approach do you prefer for medieval buildings: the open-back dollhouse style or a fully enclosed modular building?

This is a cult that I created for my own fantasy world. They believe in the holy snowman (as I thought the white looks beautiful!) I tried making the building from sun damaged white parts, but sadly I didn’t have enough to make it fully coloured. What do you guys think?

I’ve finally assembled a mostly complete collection of all the Lego bardings. I am not counting the brick built ones (like the Horse Knight Castle) as I am not a huge fan of those. I think there are also some plain ones that come in solid red or black (piece 2490), but those are going for silly money on Bricklink and I am not enough of a completionist to want to pay that much. There are also a couple of Duplo ones, though I haven’t got my hands on those yet either.
 
Here are the ones I have in my collection:
 
Vintage Era
Yellow Lions and Blue Dragons from Knight’s Challenge 6060 (Crusaders and Lion Knights era)
Red Dragons from Black Knights Castle 6086
Fright Knights Barding from Traitor Transport 6047
Red Lion Head Barding from Royal Knight’s Castle 6090
Blue Lion Head Barding from Royal Joust 6095
 
Knights Kingdom II
Vladek’s Scorpion Barding from Vladek Encounter 8777
Lion with Crown Pattern from Castle of Morcia
 
Fantasy Era
Silver Crown from King’s Castle Siege 7094
Gold Crown from Giant Castle Chess 852293 and Final Joust 7009
 
Kingdoms
Gold Lions with Gold Chain Mail from King’s Castle 7946
Gold Lions with Silver Plate from Prison Tower Rescue 7947
Black Falcon Fleur de Lis from Kingdoms Joust 10223
Green Dragons from Escape from Dragon's Prison 7187 (probably my favourite and definitely the most expensive and sought after)
 
2013 Relaunch
Blue Lions from King’s Castle 70404
Red Dragons from The Gatehouse Raid 70402
 
Modern
Lion Knights from Lion Knights Castle 10305
Black Falcons from LKC 10305
 
And finally a bit of an oddity from Ninjago, the blue and gold dragon barding from Emperor’s Stronghold 3053, not strictly speaking Castle related, but a neat piece anyways IMO
 

Can anybody recognize this. I cant seems to identify it as official lego set. Can it be fake?

I loved the gradient roofing stuff I saw in the last round of BDP so I dusted off this old build and started refreshing it. Might take it to Ideas when its done, what do you think? The Medieval Guarded Grocer was originally inspired by the Guarded Inn and Green Grocer and designed to work with the Medieval Blacksmith. I designed it like ~3 years ago.

I’d post the pic here but it get deleted but the point is to double check your payment options guys cause they shipping out soon

Just starting on a town gate house for my first ever MOC to be part of my first ever Diorama. In the town at the back on a raised rocky area will be the Lion Knights Castle.

Do people like to plan it all so it comes together perfect. I'm having loads of fun just freestyling it (parts everywhere), but I am finding that you run into problems all the time and start fudging it 😂. Perhaps as I'm new I'm just going to freestyle the whole of this diorama and then future ones I'll learn from mistakes and plan it more and be a bit more ambitious.

I'm thinking of having the Horse Knights as the 'town guards' while the Lion Knights as the ' kings guard'.

As I'm finding out (not been into Lego since I was about 8, now I have a 7 year old of my own 😀), Army building is expensive. Are more people turning to using different factions as allies to beef up their defence of settlements etc? Is this a bit of a no no for some?

I've been collecting used 3in1 Falcon Castle sets and new 3in1 Horse Knight sets in the sales for pieces. Also vinted for bags of grey and brown stuff I find cheap.

Fully fledged AFOL of the Castle variety 😁

My current version of Robin Hood. I plan on making the Merry men and the sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisborne.

For me it should the one from Starwar(Sorry I don’t know anything about Starwar). The monster is High quality and fit to my castle collection. You can put a minifig into his month.