This set would have benefited from being an actual Lego set… or rather, setS, plural. While a siege encampment is a breath of fresh air from constant full-blown castles, $230 for a bundle of scattered side builds, nice as they may be, just feels too pricey. This would have been better off as a line of $20-50 sets. It’d also give people choices for which builds they actually want in their Lego castle setups. EDIT: Oops, and you mentioned that pretty much right after I commented that. 😅
I’m getting so fed up with Lego about the lack of a Castle/Fantasy theme, and the latest issue with the Wolfpack Beastmaster CMF is just making it worse. It’s making me no longer enjoy the hobby. I either go to a shop and scan/buy loads of the Beastmaster (which I want but deprives other people - especially kids - of the chance), or miss out and pay a fortune on the aftermarket. I miss out on the Designer Programme sets because I can’t afford the constant £200-£300 plus sets. So whatever I do, as a consumer, they make me feel rubbish about it. There’s so many Castle/Fantasy aligned sets being drip fed across different themes, and it all seems to indicate that there’s some sort of demand to support a Castle/Fantasy aligned full theme, so just do it and stop making the fans feel bad. My only hope is that D&D has done enough to make this happen.
And this is why I’m glad as an AFOL I’m not into minifigures! Although this siege set is sorely tempting me as there are some great alternative builds of the Lion Knights’ Castle on rebrickable which this would go perfectly with….search the set number on rebrickable and see the alt. builds or just search “Lion Knights' Keep - 10305 Castle Expansion” which alters the castle set (some parts remain as is) to make it wider and slimmer with more exterior walls where you could easily add the siege set! Plus makes it easier to display on a shelf.
Real. This is what I think many of us are feeling. I’d love to buy one desirable figure, like the paladin or Wolfpack beastmaster, at a time across multiple stores to give other people the chance to get them, but I’ll check five stores and find none, so when I find three at a store finally, I get them all because I want to build fun stuff with them. But in reality, CMFs arent meant to be the main thing. If there were a wave of castle sets, CMFs would be supplementary. People may buy one or two to add to their already diverse and varied castle collection. But instead all castle fans have the same few sets and as many of the black ravens, beer knights, paladins, etc as they can get their hands on.
Tbh the lego sets are a bad deal anyways - if ur not a sucker for cheap open back builds. They only need to bring some kind of battlepack with 4-5 minifigs and a few masonary bricks and most afols are good to go. Fantasy era was peak castle era.
@@maximilianomartinmassera9609 Yeah, that’s not gonna happen, it’s just what Lego costs now. They know there are enough people who want the quality they offer, even if it is sometimes not what it could be, so as long as demand is present and their costs rise(which they do every year), prices for us will rise as well.
yessir, but aftermarket 350 on day one is worse, year later will be 400+ Lego definitely got us, but good think is price per piece is still better than Star Wars and Disney/ Marvel garbage sets
Maybe on paper, but its 2k+ pieces. Could be your preference to have just one big thing and thats fine - but instead we get a multitude of smaller things. That doesn’t lesson the quality of what we are getting. Maybe some might prefer them to be multiple smaller sets but I enjoy getting it all in one, and it also gives opportunity for better quality in each piece. A $10-20 tent is certainly more affordable but probably not as nice as one included in a big set.
Given all the other sets in this series are already quite expensive I think this would have worked better with just the catapult and ladder. Then it could have been priced at half or less than half of what it is now and it would better serve its purpose as being "complementary" to the full castle sets.
I was going to comment almost the exact same thing, then I read this! I think it also would have benefitted as an actual LEGO brand set, and split into a set wave, with each, or a couple of, the little builds as their own sets, y'know? I know he kinda pointed that out in n the video already lol
It doesn’t matter that it’s “expensive” it’s going to sell out within 4 hours. It’s a great set and everyone always complains that not enough things are included in sets this one has it all.
To answer your question, no it’s not. It’s cool. But IMO a set made up of lots of smaller builds will never beat a large scale set like Lions Knight Castle
I actually love how it's dividing opinion. Surely that's what bricklink can do best. Whereas mainstream lego wants to appeal to everyone bricklink can take risks. It really justifies the existence of the bricklink programme. But i do agree if there was a fleshed out castle theme with smaller builds that we used to have then there would be much less demand for this set. As it is the price seems just a bit steep. We are seeing so many investors who got bricklink sets as investments selling close to cost price now. I dont see this set as a good investment, in the short term at least, so i can imagine you can get this set close to cost price later on in the year if you cant afford it at the time.
I didn’t originally plan to get this set but when I look at all it includes, I think it might just be worth getting. Like you said, it basically includes a full wave of sets, minus a castle, which would’ve cost around this price back in 2013. The components of the set all look fantastic and there’s a LOT of minifigures. Additionally, as someone who uses Lego to DM tabletop games, I could see these being very useful for terrain and gameplay. Plus, I have plenty of castles. It’s this other stuff (tents, stalls, carts, siege weapons,) I need more of
So $229 USD For the Encampment DOES sound like a lot until you look at the prices of the animals and minifigs included in the set... According to the Designer program guidelines we should only be getting 8 minifigs for something of this piece count, However we are getting a total of 18 (5 more than the limit of a 4000pc set). If we do the math according to PAB and CMF prices(rounded): $5 per minifig (x18) + $7 cow + $4 for the 2 sheep (adult+baby) + $5 Goat + $5 horse = $110 in just minifigs and animals (not including the other smaller creatures). So on one hand the price is high, but on the other the Minifigs and animals take up almost half the cost of the set
The 30k limit is really annoying. Fans don't want to stay up till midnight refreshing a website only to find out the set is already sold out. I'll probably try to get the castle market and I'll just build parts of the Siege encampment with my own pieces.
I actually bought one this past series 3 release and they were all available for up to 48 hours past their launch. The forest stronghold was a castle set so it sold out pretty quickly within those 48 hours. But the 4 other were available for a full week before one more reached its crowdfunding mark. Then the other 3 were available the whole month until it closed.
@@ExcuseMyStutter Ya @PuuberZ is being overly dramatic. There is plenty time to purchase on Day 1 that doesn't involve staying up until midnight. Especially since Bricklink starts their presales at 11am EST.
@@kevind1980 yeah like the set I got was there the whole time they were open for presales. And I found them priced fairly as per piece ratio. But this series was actually pretty easy to get any set you wanted when they launched
For me, the Siege Encampment was love at first sight. The "problem" for me is that lots of these large sets are quite static. This is the perfect set to use for my D&D sessions, as there are so many ways how to use these small little builds. And they all individually feels so lively.
I've just started building a medieval village so I have a castle, I have the village... this siege encampment set would be absolutely perfect for all the 'stuff' builds and minifigures. And if Lego were to sell this officially, they'd split all the builds up into individual sets and sell them for 20-50 monies each. And we'd buy them. But they don't, because it's all about the star wars and the potters and the other licenced meh.
Best bet for lego is to make black ravens faction + horse barding and introduce dark red griffons or the winner of the poll as their enemy it will sell well
I'm getting both (hopefully) a seaside market and a siege encampment. If the encampment were a Lego program set, it would be nice to see it broken into smaller sets.
This set comes with 18 minifigures. Basically, it is the best possible supplement to lion knight's castle and the castle theme that you could ever want. It will sell out because of that. The only way this could be better is if it had a different faction or a new faction and new prints for the torsos for the regular peasants.
Trying to pre order 2 encampments and seaside markets. Lion knights and mountain fortress are both great. The siege encampment can be used for both sides. Now's the best time for Lego castle fans.
I am very excited about the siege encampment. I am not thrilled by the price tag, but I do understand that coming with a whopping 18 minifigures and multiple animals will affect the price a bit. This one is super appealing to me due to the versatility. You could either put each set piece together for one big siege scene, or you could divide the elements up across different factions. Maybe some siege weaponry for some factions, the chef/foraging station for a trade caravan camp, etc.
Whoever priced this set needs to be locked up immediately. Lego is driving the hobby into oblivion. Kinda set that makes you find a new hobby altogether. Drinking far too much of the corporate koolaid.
I find that the Alterative Brick sets ie FunWhole offer more interesting and creative sets, plus they come with lights. The only down side are the figures.
The pricing is ridiculous. You seem to forget that we can usually get sets at 20-40% off when considering discounts, cashback etc. but max you get with these is 5% points. I also found the size of the boxes for the last wave was quite small.
I’ll sadly be breaking the bank for the siege encampment, medieval market, and riverside scholars in hopes to convert it to an inn of some sort. Lego sure knows how to milk us
I hope they remove the Icons banner for medieval and LOTR sets and make them themes again like they used to. And they go so well together for roleplaying stuff!
If you need a castle, there are many amazing rebuilds of the Creator Castle with 1, 2, 3, and even 4 copies of the set on Rebrickable. Plenty of other builds on there. Lots of generic sets at MedievalBrick from some of these same designers. And if you're a big Castle fan, do what you have to do to get Lion Knights. I built a 2x Blacksmith, and upsized the Majisto workshop.
Only the creator castle is discontinued, ... I was hoping to buy a 4th copy at full price but the 50% discount blindsided me and they were suddenly sold out, and they were Lego shop exclusive and didn't even show up in our local lego stores so they are pretty rare. The scalpers that mass bought them at that discount were already selling them at 150 (for them at 300% of purchase price) three days later. Also if you want just the minifigs it was a horrible set at 50 per soldier (the included vanilla pirate doesn't count).
I was on board with the Siege Encampment until I saw the price. Ouch! It looks really good, but I'll probably just try to get the parts to make some of the tents.
There have been a couple of BDP sets that I regret buying, namely the Mushroom House, Ocean House, and Lost City. I've learnt from that experience, and am limiting myself to the Train, Market, and Encampment sets. I doubt the Encampment set will be a huge seller. Most people will not see the value in it, even though it is definitely there. Those who don't get it won't regret it, so skipping it is just fine. It's just not an iconic design like the Mountain Fortress or Brickcross Station. Can't wait for Series 5, that's gonna be a banger. The Transylvania and Tortuga sets are so gorgeous.
Man Im really happy to see something like the encampment exist. Too often as a castle fan it feels like we’re getting the same package over & over. The Lion Knights castle may be the best presentation of that package but something like the encampment not only is a great companion piece to that or any other castle you have, but is also a great way to offer something more fresh than another good looking but “same” castle at the end of the day that offers more of what we’ve already gotten. SleeplessNight has really excelled at keeping castle exciting. The Mountain Fortress certainly offered a different flavor of castle (and was the best set of 2024 imo), and his vampire castle coming later this year will very likely be the best of this year.
It is NOT, but it is very essential if you are a castle fan. It connects all the castle sets. Can't have a seige without it. We already have a few castles out and coming. We need more accessory sets and this fits the bill perfectly.
It matters less in these little side builds, but the lack of Lego building standards in Designer Program sets means they'll never be in the upper echelon. Standards matter.
You are forgetting that these will not be at a discount (that most sets are going to get at least for a bit during their lifecycle). Also, I LOVE the Siege Encampment. just wish it was more small sets so you can mix and match, sold by lego directly and had no stickers (and prints instead). There is nothing wrong with it, outside the fact that it's one huge set.
It bothers me there isn't a proper Castle faction, but I also strongly believe that if there was, it would be geared more toward younger builders with less advanced andimpresive sets that what the company gives us through sets like this. It's a real shame they aren't more widely available.
they did push up the price a little bit. at least on western and castle sets! 0,077€/brick for River Boat, 0,087€/brick for Western Train, 0,089€/brick Sea Side Market, 0,088€/brick Siege Encampment, 0,072€/brick for River Side Scholar. That is ~1 cent more that we pay for a "cool theme"-brick ... if Sea Side Market was priced like the River Side Scholar it would be 45€ (!!!) cheaper with 185€ instead of 230€. I mean - the market has more minifigs and utensiles + a horse. But does that really raise the price like this?
may be an exception to the rule, but ive always really liked the 3 in 1 castle whoch I think is a normal lego set. not too expensive as a “base castle” for this kind of stuff.
Unpopular opinion: the set is cool, but it feels lile you need 4 or 5 to show a proper siege. In reality we dont need more because the existing castles are not that big to need 4. But it feels that way. Also, even as seperate sets this would never be 200+ euro. This price point is too much
Even worse than not having a castle, it doesn’t seem to come with a goat. But if someone does want to create a new faction (with a goat logo maybe?), the minifigs could have generic torsos with armour on to cover what would be a new torso design, and they could have the faction logo on a shield and flags using stickers
I love the set. When i read people would love to just buy the siege equipment. I rather would like to buy to camp sidebuilds for addition to my medieval village. Maybe i will part it oud on pick a brick.
Castle fans want small sets, BDP makes a bundle of them and Castle fans complain. It’s easy to get instructions and build what you want. Other than stickers, nothing you can’t get from Lego or Bricklink. Personally I like it but I undecided on the purchase
they will sell out same time .. I take both 2x each ... gona be a hit with my 2m long castle! This would sell like crazy to the public aswell... castle figures are super popular among kids aswell. I have a lego store so I know =)
They should have removed all the "civilian" aspects of the seige set. The market stalls, wagons, and people. That would have made it more affordable. Regardless. I will buy it and use it all to flesh out a castle village
Had my eye on the siege set when first announced. Now I am hesitant at $230 USD. Might pass on this series and funnel that money to this year's LoTR set(s) and the Pirates of the Caribbean Icon set that is rumored.
Have been seeing Castle, Pirates and some Western themes from the Designer Programmes. But where are the Space ones?! Surely there are fans of the Space themes. And I will try to purchase Adventure in Transylvania when it goes live. I actually hope Bricklink will limit to 1 per customer so we don't have too many "investors" grapping extra copies.
I was very much on the fence whether I could justify this purchase but you lost me at stickers, and it does seems a bit of a mish-mash of parts. However, I'm more sold on the Seaside Market. 🥳
This really never gave us a breakdown of what the set includes. Video was mostly about the design program. I will say I'm not really excited about this set, but as a castle fan missing out on it, would leave me with regret.
It's not the best, but I'll definitely order 2 copies and very likely talk 1 or 2 of my kids into ordering a few more for me as well. I don't buy sets to resell, so I love the idea of multiple copies for a large siege camp.
These are more or less what you’d pay in a licensed Lego set yes, more than what you pay for icons etc so in fact they are pushing up the prices just a bit. Not as bad as Star Wars can’t change the fact sadly.
I'm a fan of Pirates side of things and I had to get a pirate ship alongside the Eldorado Fortress remake - without someone raiding the fortress it would feel too static for my taste. Same goes for Castle theme - this siege encampment feels utterly pointless on its own without an actual castle it's designed to be compatible with. But the castle is nowhere in sight and I'm not building a MOC for its sake.
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2 medieval buiilds is too much... it means lego is not fulflling customer demand to me. also using Br to keep making a series of this other genre is also a bit suspect if its fair. As a castle fan the one I really want is the western train. The encampment is a good idea but like many mention these are the small little sets people have been asking for but when bought all together I think a lot could have been edited for a better price and it should be for every castle fan not just BL investors. Some of these sets if they get too many votes should get upgraded to ideas sets
This could be a solution Lego should hire #sleeplessnights and three more Guys or girls. A four man team and flesh out a full castle lineup.. for kids. That being said we should really be a little gratefull because we could gave gotten no sets cheap or exspensive.
I'll make the siege tower myself, don't care about the other stuff. I'm relatively price inelastic but the price on this one is ridiculous and I won't buy it on principle. Feels like cmfs where they expect you to buy a load of junk to get what you actually want. No thanks. Seaside market is still paletable to me.
It is not the best castle set ever. The way they are using the BDP to milk the fanbase and drip feed sets is frustrating as a consumer, one point you make about these sets is that they can't have new factions, minifigs and moulds and that really struck home when I built the mountain fortress set. These kind of sets need exclusive moulds and figs, especially at the price point they're selling them at. I also don't like the use of the CMF line to again further milk adult fans, they should do an actual wave but they'd rather play on our nostalgia with releases/practices that target people's FOMO tendencies. This along with the price of UCS sets (cough incoming $1000 death star) and generally the price/quality of star wars play sets in recent years (£69.99 desert skiff is a joke) has turned me off to a point of not caring that much anymore.
bro i think lego is copy some of these sets from china, i have seen some of them on online shopping app such as Taobao, i am vietnames sorry for my poor english
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This set would have benefited from being an actual Lego set… or rather, setS, plural. While a siege encampment is a breath of fresh air from constant full-blown castles, $230 for a bundle of scattered side builds, nice as they may be, just feels too pricey. This would have been better off as a line of $20-50 sets. It’d also give people choices for which builds they actually want in their Lego castle setups.
EDIT: Oops, and you mentioned that pretty much right after I commented that. 😅
Preorder your 2 sets then sell one for $350 to pay for half the cost of the one you keep. The buyer will be glad they're not paying $400 😅
I’m getting so fed up with Lego about the lack of a Castle/Fantasy theme, and the latest issue with the Wolfpack Beastmaster CMF is just making it worse. It’s making me no longer enjoy the hobby. I either go to a shop and scan/buy loads of the Beastmaster (which I want but deprives other people - especially kids - of the chance), or miss out and pay a fortune on the aftermarket. I miss out on the Designer Programme sets because I can’t afford the constant £200-£300 plus sets. So whatever I do, as a consumer, they make me feel rubbish about it. There’s so many Castle/Fantasy aligned sets being drip fed across different themes, and it all seems to indicate that there’s some sort of demand to support a Castle/Fantasy aligned full theme, so just do it and stop making the fans feel bad. My only hope is that D&D has done enough to make this happen.
And this is why I’m glad as an AFOL I’m not into minifigures! Although this siege set is sorely tempting me as there are some great alternative builds of the Lion Knights’ Castle on rebrickable which this would go perfectly with….search the set number on rebrickable and see the alt. builds or just search “Lion Knights' Keep - 10305 Castle Expansion” which alters the castle set (some parts remain as is) to make it wider and slimmer with more exterior walls where you could easily add the siege set! Plus makes it easier to display on a shelf.
Real.
This is what I think many of us are feeling. I’d love to buy one desirable figure, like the paladin or Wolfpack beastmaster, at a time across multiple stores to give other people the chance to get them, but I’ll check five stores and find none, so when I find three at a store finally, I get them all because I want to build fun stuff with them.
But in reality, CMFs arent meant to be the main thing. If there were a wave of castle sets, CMFs would be supplementary. People may buy one or two to add to their already diverse and varied castle collection. But instead all castle fans have the same few sets and as many of the black ravens, beer knights, paladins, etc as they can get their hands on.
Tbh the lego sets are a bad deal anyways - if ur not a sucker for cheap open back builds. They only need to bring some kind of battlepack with 4-5 minifigs and a few masonary bricks and most afols are good to go. Fantasy era was peak castle era.
i buy alternative for 1/4 of the price, i wont return to lego unless they lower their price
@@maximilianomartinmassera9609 Yeah, that’s not gonna happen, it’s just what Lego costs now. They know there are enough people who want the quality they offer, even if it is sometimes not what it could be, so as long as demand is present and their costs rise(which they do every year), prices for us will rise as well.
229 euro for siege encampment is criminal
yessir, but aftermarket 350 on day one is worse, year later will be 400+
Lego definitely got us, but good think is price per piece is still better than Star Wars and Disney/ Marvel garbage sets
Maybe on paper, but its 2k+ pieces. Could be your preference to have just one big thing and thats fine - but instead we get a multitude of smaller things. That doesn’t lesson the quality of what we are getting. Maybe some might prefer them to be multiple smaller sets but I enjoy getting it all in one, and it also gives opportunity for better quality in each piece.
A $10-20 tent is certainly more affordable but probably not as nice as one included in a big set.
as a star wars theme fan i assure you it's not the worst price LOL
It has 18 mini figs and multiple animals. I think it is priced fairly
It's HOW MUCH ?? 😮😵
Given all the other sets in this series are already quite expensive I think this would have worked better with just the catapult and ladder. Then it could have been priced at half or less than half of what it is now and it would better serve its purpose as being "complementary" to the full castle sets.
I was going to comment almost the exact same thing, then I read this! I think it also would have benefitted as an actual LEGO brand set, and split into a set wave, with each, or a couple of, the little builds as their own sets, y'know? I know he kinda pointed that out in n the video already lol
It doesn’t matter that it’s “expensive” it’s going to sell out within 4 hours. It’s a great set and everyone always complains that not enough things are included in sets this one has it all.
I would have bought only those two siege machines indeed. But €200 for those two plus minibuilds feels overpriced.
As a hardcore castle fan, but also on a budget, I'm much more leaning to buy seaside market vs the siege camp
To answer your question, no it’s not. It’s cool. But IMO a set made up of lots of smaller builds will never beat a large scale set like Lions Knight Castle
The Gothic Vampire Mansion idea that's new in Bricklink seems like a contender. Hopefully they make it
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@@bohdanpretkiel8626 yes SleeplessNight is an awesome designer. He also created the Falcon's Mountain Fortress last year :D
I actually love how it's dividing opinion. Surely that's what bricklink can do best. Whereas mainstream lego wants to appeal to everyone bricklink can take risks. It really justifies the existence of the bricklink programme.
But i do agree if there was a fleshed out castle theme with smaller builds that we used to have then there would be much less demand for this set.
As it is the price seems just a bit steep. We are seeing so many investors who got bricklink sets as investments selling close to cost price now. I dont see this set as a good investment, in the short term at least, so i can imagine you can get this set close to cost price later on in the year if you cant afford it at the time.
I didn’t originally plan to get this set but when I look at all it includes, I think it might just be worth getting. Like you said, it basically includes a full wave of sets, minus a castle, which would’ve cost around this price back in 2013. The components of the set all look fantastic and there’s a LOT of minifigures. Additionally, as someone who uses Lego to DM tabletop games, I could see these being very useful for terrain and gameplay. Plus, I have plenty of castles. It’s this other stuff (tents, stalls, carts, siege weapons,) I need more of
So $229 USD For the Encampment DOES sound like a lot until you look at the prices of the animals and minifigs included in the set... According to the Designer program guidelines we should only be getting 8 minifigs for something of this piece count, However we are getting a total of 18 (5 more than the limit of a 4000pc set). If we do the math according to PAB and CMF prices(rounded): $5 per minifig (x18) + $7 cow + $4 for the 2 sheep (adult+baby) + $5 Goat + $5 horse = $110 in just minifigs and animals (not including the other smaller creatures). So on one hand the price is high, but on the other the Minifigs and animals take up almost half the cost of the set
This set would have been so awesome and a must buy if it was just the siege tower at a low affordable price.
You can piece one together once the instructions are released.
The 30k limit is really annoying. Fans don't want to stay up till midnight refreshing a website only to find out the set is already sold out.
I'll probably try to get the castle market and I'll just build parts of the Siege encampment with my own pieces.
I actually bought one this past series 3 release and they were all available for up to 48 hours past their launch. The forest stronghold was a castle set so it sold out pretty quickly within those 48 hours. But the 4 other were available for a full week before one more reached its crowdfunding mark. Then the other 3 were available the whole month until it closed.
@@ExcuseMyStutter Ya @PuuberZ is being overly dramatic. There is plenty time to purchase on Day 1 that doesn't involve staying up until midnight. Especially since Bricklink starts their presales at 11am EST.
@@kevind1980 yeah like the set I got was there the whole time they were open for presales. And I found them priced fairly as per piece ratio. But this series was actually pretty easy to get any set you wanted when they launched
For me, the Siege Encampment was love at first sight. The "problem" for me is that lots of these large sets are quite static. This is the perfect set to use for my D&D sessions, as there are so many ways how to use these small little builds. And they all individually feels so lively.
I've just started building a medieval village so I have a castle, I have the village... this siege encampment set would be absolutely perfect for all the 'stuff' builds and minifigures.
And if Lego were to sell this officially, they'd split all the builds up into individual sets and sell them for 20-50 monies each. And we'd buy them. But they don't, because it's all about the star wars and the potters and the other licenced meh.
Best bet for lego is to make black ravens faction + horse barding and introduce dark red griffons or the winner of the poll as their enemy it will sell well
I'm getting both (hopefully) a seaside market and a siege encampment. If the encampment were a Lego program set, it would be nice to see it broken into smaller sets.
This set comes with 18 minifigures. Basically, it is the best possible supplement to lion knight's castle and the castle theme that you could ever want. It will sell out because of that. The only way this could be better is if it had a different faction or a new faction and new prints for the torsos for the regular peasants.
Trying to pre order 2 encampments and seaside markets. Lion knights and mountain fortress are both great. The siege encampment can be used for both sides. Now's the best time for Lego castle fans.
Wow, the siege encampment is exactly what Lego should have released in smaller sets alongside the Lion Knights Castle. You made some excellent points.
Hello! Lego castle community member here! I love it! 😍 absolutely an instant buy for me. I agree that it fleshes out the castle theme perfectly
I am very excited about the siege encampment. I am not thrilled by the price tag, but I do understand that coming with a whopping 18 minifigures and multiple animals will affect the price a bit. This one is super appealing to me due to the versatility. You could either put each set piece together for one big siege scene, or you could divide the elements up across different factions. Maybe some siege weaponry for some factions, the chef/foraging station for a trade caravan camp, etc.
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Ragebait is a phenomenal way to lose your subscribers who value their free time. This guy needs to reevaluate.
seemed like a totally normal video to me about a totally normal topic
@@mopanda81 Sweet!
Whoever priced this set needs to be locked up immediately. Lego is driving the hobby into oblivion. Kinda set that makes you find a new hobby altogether. Drinking far too much of the corporate koolaid.
I find that the Alterative Brick sets ie FunWhole offer more interesting and creative sets, plus they come with lights. The only down side are the figures.
I’m really hoping I can get that Wild West train it looks incredible
The train is tempting me it goes with so much of my collection but is also kinda pricey for something that isnt gonna be that big
The pricing is ridiculous. You seem to forget that we can usually get sets at 20-40% off when considering discounts, cashback etc. but max you get with these is 5% points. I also found the size of the boxes for the last wave was quite small.
I’ll sadly be breaking the bank for the siege encampment, medieval market, and riverside scholars in hopes to convert it to an inn of some sort. Lego sure knows how to milk us
You could also buy the 3-1 Pirate ship for an inn and add some side builds. Maybe some stairs.
Its a must buy. Question is will I get 1 or 2 of them.
I hope they remove the Icons banner for medieval and LOTR sets and make them themes again like they used to. And they go so well together for roleplaying stuff!
A regular castle theme with 3-5 sets per year with continuity would be great but we castle fans take what we can get.
If you need a castle, there are many amazing rebuilds of the Creator Castle with 1, 2, 3, and even 4 copies of the set on Rebrickable. Plenty of other builds on there. Lots of generic sets at MedievalBrick from some of these same designers. And if you're a big Castle fan, do what you have to do to get Lion Knights. I built a 2x Blacksmith, and upsized the Majisto workshop.
Only the creator castle is discontinued, ... I was hoping to buy a 4th copy at full price but the 50% discount blindsided me and they were suddenly sold out, and they were Lego shop exclusive and didn't even show up in our local lego stores so they are pretty rare.
The scalpers that mass bought them at that discount were already selling them at 150 (for them at 300% of purchase price) three days later.
Also if you want just the minifigs it was a horrible set at 50 per soldier (the included vanilla pirate doesn't count).
Reminds me of the UCS Assault on Hoth 75098. A bunch of small builds making it feel lacking, especially for a UCS set.
I was on board with the Siege Encampment until I saw the price. Ouch! It looks really good, but I'll probably just try to get the parts to make some of the tents.
Looks like kids can actually play with this set. That's good
Lego should just make theme packs like a small box with 10 armor 10 knight and 10 weapon that it, name it knights starter box and be sold like crazy
There’s definitely a market for the siege encampment. I’ll buy it, even though I’ve got most of the builds in there.
The classic castle series didn't only have sets that were castles. I don't see why that would have to be the case here either.
There have been a couple of BDP sets that I regret buying, namely the Mushroom House, Ocean House, and Lost City.
I've learnt from that experience, and am limiting myself to the Train, Market, and Encampment sets.
I doubt the Encampment set will be a huge seller. Most people will not see the value in it, even though it is definitely there. Those who don't get it won't regret it, so skipping it is just fine. It's just not an iconic design like the Mountain Fortress or Brickcross Station.
Can't wait for Series 5, that's gonna be a banger. The Transylvania and Tortuga sets are so gorgeous.
Man Im really happy to see something like the encampment exist. Too often as a castle fan it feels like we’re getting the same package over & over. The Lion Knights castle may be the best presentation of that package but something like the encampment not only is a great companion piece to that or any other castle you have, but is also a great way to offer something more fresh than another good looking but “same” castle at the end of the day that offers more of what we’ve already gotten.
SleeplessNight has really excelled at keeping castle exciting. The Mountain Fortress certainly offered a different flavor of castle (and was the best set of 2024 imo), and his vampire castle coming later this year will very likely be the best of this year.
It is NOT, but it is very essential if you are a castle fan. It connects all the castle sets. Can't have a seige without it. We already have a few castles out and coming. We need more accessory sets and this fits the bill perfectly.
It matters less in these little side builds, but the lack of Lego building standards in Designer Program sets means they'll never be in the upper echelon. Standards matter.
Siege encampment is amazing and I will be buying it the moment it becomes available. It is a fantastic set.
I think Lego could have done this set as an official set and release some as small sets
which set do you like most from series 4? my favorite is merchant boat but every set looks epic
It’s cool but it’s so expensive. $300 Cdn is crazy. Same price as town square.
😩😩 why do they all have to look so good?!?!?
You are forgetting that these will not be at a discount (that most sets are going to get at least for a bit during their lifecycle).
Also, I LOVE the Siege Encampment. just wish it was more small sets so you can mix and match, sold by lego directly and had no stickers (and prints instead). There is nothing wrong with it, outside the fact that it's one huge set.
If it cost maybe $75-$100 less? Absolutely. But at the same price as the marketplace set from this series? Absolutely not.
It bothers me there isn't a proper Castle faction, but I also strongly believe that if there was, it would be geared more toward younger builders with less advanced andimpresive sets that what the company gives us through sets like this. It's a real shame they aren't more widely available.
they did push up the price a little bit. at least on western and castle sets! 0,077€/brick for River Boat, 0,087€/brick for Western Train, 0,089€/brick Sea Side Market, 0,088€/brick Siege Encampment, 0,072€/brick for River Side Scholar. That is ~1 cent more that we pay for a "cool theme"-brick ... if Sea Side Market was priced like the River Side Scholar it would be 45€ (!!!) cheaper with 185€ instead of 230€. I mean - the market has more minifigs and utensiles + a horse. But does that really raise the price like this?
I will try to preorder seaside market but cant justify the cost of siege encampment, that said I dont doubt it will sell out.
Yeah it’s really sick, but way too expensive and should’ve been a bunch of smaller sets released by lego
may be an exception to the rule, but ive always really liked the 3 in 1 castle whoch I think is a normal lego set. not too expensive as a “base castle” for this kind of stuff.
It’s awesome, but so overpriced that I won’t be getting it
Unpopular opinion: the set is cool, but it feels lile you need 4 or 5 to show a proper siege. In reality we dont need more because the existing castles are not that big to need 4. But it feels that way. Also, even as seperate sets this would never be 200+ euro. This price point is too much
Even worse than not having a castle, it doesn’t seem to come with a goat.
But if someone does want to create a new faction (with a goat logo maybe?), the minifigs could have generic torsos with armour on to cover what would be a new torso design, and they could have the faction logo on a shield and flags using stickers
there is one grey goat in the kitchen area :) you can see it in 5th picture (one with lion knights castle).
@ All hail the goat!
i really like this set but i think it will be hard to display and take up alot of shelf space
We need a 100 dollar seige works on the Lego store. With a siege tower to go with lion knights and ladders and battering ram and mabey tents
Thx Jim! Keep flex’n!
Very cool!
I would love this set, but I'm a uni student living off of OSAP funding and can't really throw that kind of money around.
I love the set. When i read people would love to just buy the siege equipment. I rather would like to buy to camp sidebuilds for addition to my medieval village. Maybe i will part it oud on pick a brick.
Personally i won't be able to buy the seige encampment but if it pops up in the Lego Builder app later on i could try to build some of the set
Castle fans want small sets, BDP makes a bundle of them and Castle fans complain. It’s easy to get instructions and build what you want. Other than stickers, nothing you can’t get from Lego or Bricklink.
Personally I like it but I undecided on the purchase
No prices for Australia :-(
Was planning on pre-ordering until i saw the price, cant justify a supplemental set for that much
they will sell out same time .. I take both 2x each ... gona be a hit with my 2m long castle! This would sell like crazy to the public aswell... castle figures are super popular among kids aswell. I have a lego store so I know =)
Just saying, the dude who designed this has won 3 times now. Sure his builds are excellent, but give other designers an opportunity to shine
They should have removed all the "civilian" aspects of the seige set. The market stalls, wagons, and people. That would have made it more affordable.
Regardless. I will buy it and use it all to flesh out a castle village
I'm planning to get two... and then I'll lay siege to my local LEGO Store to recover my money 😅😆
Had my eye on the siege set when first announced. Now I am hesitant at $230 USD. Might pass on this series and funnel that money to this year's LoTR set(s) and the Pirates of the Caribbean Icon set that is rumored.
Have been seeing Castle, Pirates and some Western themes from the Designer Programmes. But where are the Space ones?!
Surely there are fans of the Space themes.
And I will try to purchase Adventure in Transylvania when it goes live. I actually hope Bricklink will limit to 1 per customer so we don't have too many "investors" grapping extra copies.
You think these prices are good? I thought they were too expensive but I'm still buying the train and the 2 castle sets.
I was very much on the fence whether I could justify this purchase but you lost me at stickers, and it does seems a bit of a mish-mash of parts. However, I'm more sold on the Seaside Market. 🥳
Bricklink sets were always this expensive
350 CAD?! i can make my own camp moc for half the price
best ever, i dunno, but best siege set yes! its an evolution to upside of sets like Bull's attack and siege twoer/battering ram
Bloody hell man, round up those 0.99's 😂
230€??? For a no-license set without unique minifigs? 😭
The Siege Encampment has 18 minifigs...
Let's be honest it's a DLC for the lion knights castle
06:32 Trebuchet, and siege tower.
This really never gave us a breakdown of what the set includes. Video was mostly about the design program. I will say I'm not really excited about this set, but as a castle fan missing out on it, would leave me with regret.
It's not the best, but I'll definitely order 2 copies and very likely talk 1 or 2 of my kids into ordering a few more for me as well. I don't buy sets to resell, so I love the idea of multiple copies for a large siege camp.
It REALLY doesn’t need to have that much stuff in it. It can easily be cut down in pieces and price. Why does everything need to be big and expensive?
These are more or less what you’d pay in a licensed Lego set yes, more than what you pay for icons etc so in fact they are pushing up the prices just a bit. Not as bad as Star Wars can’t change the fact sadly.
The price tag doesn't match the value.
I'm a fan of Pirates side of things and I had to get a pirate ship alongside the Eldorado Fortress remake - without someone raiding the fortress it would feel too static for my taste. Same goes for Castle theme - this siege encampment feels utterly pointless on its own without an actual castle it's designed to be compatible with. But the castle is nowhere in sight and I'm not building a MOC for its sake.
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2 medieval buiilds is too much... it means lego is not fulflling customer demand to me. also using Br to keep making a series of this other genre is also a bit suspect if its fair. As a castle fan the one I really want is the western train. The encampment is a good idea but like many mention these are the small little sets people have been asking for but when bought all together I think a lot could have been edited for a better price and it should be for every castle fan not just BL investors. Some of these sets if they get too many votes should get upgraded to ideas sets
Why are you saying euros are only used in the EU when non EU countries such as Montenegro and Kosovo use the EU
way too expensive imho. they should have limited the minifigs and animals to keep the price down.
This could be a solution Lego should hire #sleeplessnights and three more Guys or girls. A four man team and flesh out a full castle lineup.. for kids. That being said we should really be a little gratefull because we could gave gotten no sets cheap or exspensive.
I'll make the siege tower myself, don't care about the other stuff. I'm relatively price inelastic but the price on this one is ridiculous and I won't buy it on principle. Feels like cmfs where they expect you to buy a load of junk to get what you actually want. No thanks. Seaside market is still paletable to me.
I’m giving you your answer 10 seconds into the video. No it isn’t. It isn’t even the best castle set in this round of the brick link designer program.
It is not the best castle set ever.
The way they are using the BDP to milk the fanbase and drip feed sets is frustrating as a consumer, one point you make about these sets is that they can't have new factions, minifigs and moulds and that really struck home when I built the mountain fortress set. These kind of sets need exclusive moulds and figs, especially at the price point they're selling them at.
I also don't like the use of the CMF line to again further milk adult fans, they should do an actual wave but they'd rather play on our nostalgia with releases/practices that target people's FOMO tendencies.
This along with the price of UCS sets (cough incoming $1000 death star) and generally the price/quality of star wars play sets in recent years (£69.99 desert skiff is a joke) has turned me off to a point of not caring that much anymore.
we should really boycott TLG
Go ahead lool.
No, it is not the best. It is still a good set or really multiple sets in one box.
bro i think lego is copy some of these sets from china, i have seen some of them on online shopping app such as Taobao, i am vietnames sorry for my poor english
Its the other way around, Fan Designs from BLDP and LEGO Ideas get stolen consistently by companies that then produce very poor replicas.
No thanks. 🏹
Answer: No.
Not for me anyway. But I'm not into castle either. 😅 All in all, I'll be skipping series 4.
Quick Answer: No
It's only Designer Program - no new elements or prints. Simple MOC, far from the best set.