What was the BEST year for LEGO Castle?
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- what was the best year for lego castle in your opinion?
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Underrated but 2005 - second phase of Knights Kingdom II. The redesign of the heroes was great to have the printed armour and classic shields. Both sides siege towers are amazing. Then of course all the shadow knight sets; Dark Fortress Landing, Scorpion Prison Cave (a giant ridable scorpion what not to love), and the big one Vladek's Dark Fortress!
I love those later vladek sets from KK2
Those later Lights kingdom phase 2 sets were underrated
@@TipperProject it took me a while to come around on Knights Kingdom 2, and the addition of Adric, Kentis, Karzon and Dracus not only expanded the story, but added some new figures and crests. I got pretty excited over 8813 Battle at the Pass for the number of figures, the number of accessories, and the reintroduction of the tournament helmet.
Born too late for Lego Castle 2008 and too early for the new sets.
Born just in time for Lego Kingdoms.
Tbh kingdoms was so underrated. I wish it got 2 more years of sets.
@@michaelsmith8028 Kingdoms was definitely a great follow-up to Fantasy Era with the printing and design of the figures and some really great sets. I personally loved 7189 Mill Village Raid and 10223 Joust, and of course the battle packs were a great way to build your army!
A CMF or battle packs with the Fantasy era factions would probably do really well in the wake of the Dungeons and Dragons CMF
Fantasy era has to be my favorite iteration of the Castle theme.
How have we went from a golden age to a dark age of castle being one of legos core themes
Requesting lego starts producing 'dark ages' medieval sets, with a muddy pesant and rats acressory battle pack, and plague doctors.
It is not all bad. Just a horrible lack of sets is the main problem. But the amount of useful parts we have available is massively increased, the sets that we do get are certainly great and finally we get rare gems such as the D&D CMF that allows for a lot of minifigure customization.
Wolfpack are probably my favourite faction. I've got 2 wolfpack carts and the wolfpack castle. Lovely little set.
I've also got the black kings castle from the same year, possibly the best castle ever. That little yellow building off to the side is peak, the well in the middle, and that entrance.
Great set.
I'm biased because I'm old, but the yellow castle will always be my favorite. Nostalgia is a helluva drug.
1992 is a great choice, but I'd go 2 years later for Dragon Masters. It's the first "good guy" faction that wasn't your average knights (being led by Majisto rather than a king, more of a fantasy faction than most Castle themes at the time), Wolfpack and Dark Forest, the latter of which was a revival of the old Forestmen theme so that's fun.
As a MOC builder, I think 2021-present days are easily the best years for LEGO castle, which might be a bit of a controversy. Ideas Blacksmith, Lion Knights Castle, Viking Village, Town Square, and all of the major factions available on PAB make these years my favorite.
2008 to 2013 bring that style back
Vintage was kool,and the remakes are nostalgic and look awesome too
The 2008 troll siege tower was my first Castle set, so the fantasy era definitely kickstarted my love of everything castles and fantasy (especially in lego)
2010 Lego Kingdoms was peak. I’m so glad that I have nearly all the sets from that year.
Great summery of best eras for Lego Castle! I agree, it's hard to beat the early 90s. Hopefully Lego listens to the suggestions you make - I would definitely get my hands on a modern wolfpack set. No brainer indeed!
Couldn't agree more! Best castle, best factions, variety of builds, great year for castle 👍
You make a good case for 1992! I had all of those sets except the big castle. I wish I'd kept them together, they're long gone now, but I guess I got them at the right time. :)
Never really thought about which year could be the best specifically, but I'd say your picks are really good ones. I'd probably also choose 2010 because I absolutely love the style of Kingdoms, but I understand the argument that the castle design may have gotten a bit repetitive by then. Great video as always Goldfyre!
I love all Eras of LEGO Medieval Castle
Great Video! I feel like the best eras of LEGO Castle were 1992-1993 and 2007-2012!
I had 6080, 6040 and 6061 as a child, I do miss those sets and I'm tinkering re-acquire them, but they do not come cheap!
I think the Lion Knights’ castle from 1984 lends direct inspiration to the Kingdoms castle from 2010. They have the same arrangement of towers.
Growing up my best friend had the Wolfpack Tower and I thought he was the luckiest Kid ever. I still rank that as one of my favourite nostalgia sets, especially with the ghost character included 👻
Thank you for the clear, straightforward "tutorial" on the Lego Castle line for us newbies. I'm not new to Lego (about 2010 on) but my Castle collection just started with the recent Lion Knights Castle, Creator Medieval Castle (3-in-1 -- got couple for expansion ), and Medieval Town Square (got pretty much everything related -- including GWPs). I also just pre-ordered my first Bricklink Designer Program set: Castle in the Forest. I wish Lego would make smaller, more affordable "supplemental" Castle theme sets for expansion like they used to. I wish the same with trains/railroad theme -- they used to offer single train cars -- again, for affordability and expansion one-at-a-time. I don't think they'd lose money.
Наконец-то я дождался этого видео. Good video, more castle video🎉
I think LEGO should make a remake of the dragon knights castle, maybe they would turn the black dragon statue into a real dragon? -Love and support from Norway, pls make more costumizing cmf videos (Series 25, 26). Was seeking after the medieval characters, got many else to :/ XD
I had the Tower Raid set when I was a kid and it was honestly the best thing ever! A good selection of pieces to build both custom medieval buildings but also vehicles from.
Also picked up the pieces for it from my parents a couple of days ago so I might just try rebuilding it now.
That is such a gem to still have complete. Have fun rebuilding it!
I love fantasy era so much I would love another castle line with more fantasy races besides just humans
I love how you made the end of the Video! :)
As a 40 year old, I'm a big fan of the fantasy era. What's not to like? They had some fun with that line.
The two best castles are Black Monarch's Castle (1988) and the 1992 Black Knight s Castle you featured. I bought the 1992 castle in 2019 before prices exploded, fortunately.
1992 was the last year of my initial interest in Lego. I aged out right before Dragon Masters came out. I still have the Black Knight's Castle and the Wolfpack Tower and have spent plenty of time in the last couple years modifying them.
I may be 31 and a huge Lego castle fan ( while I absolutely love the Fright Knights) I really enjoyed almost every Lego castle theme that Lego released. I do think my favorite is the fantasy era mostly due to me being a huge Fantasy fan and just I would always pretend that the lion knights or crown knights just had to hold off the huge forces of evil. Maybe it's just me but I just love anything Lego Castle lol I do wish Lego fully brought it back as it's own theme again
As an older lego fan (I'm 41) i not only agree that 1992 was the best year for castle (i should know; i was there) but i would like to say that i absolutely loved fantasy era castle and would easily say that 2008 was the second best year. Fantasy era brought back so many great classic elements that were missing from Knights Kingdom and adding fantasy elements like skeletons, dragons, trolls and dwarves was everything i had ever dreamed about. I remember it being 1996 and i wanted orcs for my knights to fight, but the closest i had were my pirates.
Of course you think it was peak! You were 9 then, so you grew up with those older sets.
I think the fantasy era castle sets were peak because that's what I grew up with.
I absolutely adore the older castle sets and I own a few of them from when I was a tiny lad, but looking back now and comparing them to the likes of LKC, or some of the rebrickable castle MOCs, they look incredibly empty and apart from the minifigures, not very alive. Having castles come completely or at least partially furnished is such a massive upgrade and it increases playability by a massive amount too, for those that are into that.
Sweet overview for sure, my favorite out of these is Wolfpack year, it seems to come in a style that I do not own, nor know very well.
I’m one of the older AFOLs that doesn’t have room for a lot of the wackiness of Fantasy Era. Minifigs are great and the overall concept really works. Some of the builds are just a little too campy for me. (Looking at you, Skeleton Tower)
I do think it’d have a lot of potential if revisited these days, but I think D&D is sitting on that throne at the moment, which works for me.
Great video. Loved seeing the discussion around 84-92. That was my era as a kid and it was awesome!
I think the camp of fantasy era is very of it's time and is one of the reasons i love it so much but i totally get where you're coming from.
I also have the Sea Serpent, which I got for Christmas a few years ago. I think it's one of the best Black Knight sets, especially now, since it's much cheaper than the castles. It has 3 Black Knight figures, 6 dragon shields, the printed flag, and the sail. I hope Lego makes a remake of the Black Knights, but I hope it's not a GWP.
Remaking that set as a MOC or have Lego redesign it as a set would be amazing. If they can give the same quality as we had with the Blacktron Cruiser or Eldorado Fortress, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
It seems like the best choice out of the Black Knight sets to remake, and the Medieval Town Square had a letter with the Black Knights logo in it. They’ve already remade the rest of the first 5 factions.
the best year imo is 2008, fantasy era is just so cool
I parted out the Battle Wheel, great set and super affordable to do that with
Here's how I classified the old and new Lego sets from the late 20th century to today: the first age - black knights, Wolfpack, etc.
The second age - 2008 sets.
The third age - the king's lion knights (red and white/blue and white) and the dragon knights (green and black/red and black).
My favorite year of Lego Castle sets is the third age!
I was an early 80s kid growing up with castle lego. mid 90s I was through with highschool. 2000s I was starting a family and paying bills. When I had kids I started getting lego again 2008-2014 (wooo kingdoms really were nice) then I got busy with more work and other things. Then I swung back around and started collecting again starting in 2023. I have to say the quality of the knights, and sets now are way better, but the variety of types available in a given year are pretty bleak. You get falcon knights and lion knights readily available but if you want to get other types its hard or specialized to get (raven knights, fright knights) The thing I find really missing these days are battle packs or small sets with 2-3 figs in it. the larger sets put the older sets to shame id say. That blacksmith set was soooo nice. Scale is big, and I liked that.
Are we ever going to go back to the era of affordable lego castle sets?
I'd love for lego to release small castle sets or battle packs again
I'm really pessimistic about that. LEGO seems to have found a working formula, with releasing big expensive castle sets for adult collectors, and it's not looking like they want to change that. Maybe the new factions they designed for that ideas set will once get their own wave, but I doubt it
We can always hope. I think they will sell well, seeing the medieval community is quite large. We saw how popular the D&D CMF was, that was in large part due to the castle fans picking it up.
For the set at 7:50 it reminds me of the bricklink series 6 set “Medieval Toll Bridge” that you can vote on to get made right now
Love this type of content
Thanks! I had a really fun time making this one.
Nice vid and i also want to buy the lego black knights castle sometime also i have a few new stopmotions on my channel and i would like to see your stopmotions when you make them 😁
Honestly, I was thinking for a while that Lego should reintroduce the Lego castle theme, and while Im still not completely against it, I would prefer adventure, space, or pirate to make a comeback. Space and Adventure have plenty of untapped potential and variety, and Lego Pirate has my preferred fortresses, cities, weaponry, and vehicles to Castle (I just like Mediterranean architecture and Big sail boats).... I still really want to pick up the lion knights castle and village though.
Need fantasy elves sets !
Would love to hear your thoughts on NexoKnights! I HATED them when they released. I'm not a fan of StarWars or future themes.
These days however, I've been growing more fond of NexoKnights. The baddies are some of the coolest (and goofiest) minifigures for MOCs. You can definitely "de-futurize" them a bit to fit more realm of Medieval fantasy.
Keep up the great work, love your videos!
I really love some of the villain minifigs from nexo knights but other than that i am not a fan lol
I love how Goldfyre calls 2008 the year of the orc when the faction he reviews is the trolls😂
I probably agree 92 was best, but I like 2012, and 86 as well
1992 is my Favorite Era
Bring back the black nights. They were maybe the most realistic faction.
Definitely, their prints would be amazing in the modern style
If I'd have to pick one wave of Castle Sets to have, I'd personally pick the Fantasy Era
While it's incredibly obvious as to one reason why if you just so happen to look at my pfp, I like fantasy creature armies more than human armies, except if they have sick-ass gear. I love orcs, I love dwarves, and I love skeletons, and I like the Crown Knights because blue is my third favorite color
Unlike any castle sets ever since, and just like Ninjago, the Fantasys ets are just so out-there and despite not owning any of them, I really like them for that
I think the best year was the first year of the black falcons.
Fright Knights year
My lego castle buildings were hit hard by 2008 😔
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2025 will be the year of the Sea Serpent - I'm calling it!
100% agree, 1992 was the absolute best.
Thats odd, the two best years (1984 and 1992) are also the two years that both the Terminator films released. Coincidence, I think NOT
i have 3 of the Orc sets still sealed plus 7037 that i am going to build one day.
Dakka dakka
6:37 SHOW CAT!!!!
Ok I’m here to piss on the parade.
My word, I look at all this old stuff and think, Jiminy Cricket’s Christmas, Lego has gotten so much better since I was a kid.
The best year was 2021, release of the Medieval Blacksmith 21325, and even that set had problems that I had to fix. Geez Lego! 😂
We are in the golden age of Lego right now. They’re still releasing shit builds, but the pieces and colors are amazing. Tons to create your own MOCs.
Love that you can get Black Falcons, Forestmen and Wolfpack minifigs on PAB. Smart move finally from Lego.
Lion Knights suck
I totally agree these sets don't hold up today compared to stuff like the lion knights castle & medieval town square. So when i compare them i'm comparing them to what was out at the time
@@Goldfyre most definitely!! It was a great time being an ignorant kid who didn’t know any better. Boy, those were the days! Being an adult is tough, man! At least we got Lego still! 🍻 😂
6086 FTW
Can't argue with 1992. I'm glad I was a child growing up in the 90's!
Nice vid. Do you have any ideas when your next full castle collection will come out?
it's so funny you ask that because that's the next video im working on for this month
oh nice
The video changed from : “1992 was peak” to : “2008 was peak”
The video actually has all 3 years on at the same time. Everyone should see 1 of 3
@@Goldfyre oh ye it changed again for me!! Morning was 1992 then midday was 2008 then now night is 1984 soo cool man i love ur chanel
Doesn't the 2008 castle theme also have skeletons as villains, too? I grew up in that time.
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Wow
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BUY USED!!! Ive been able to get an absurdly large old castle collection thats price is in the thousands for less than half of its value
100% Especially with retired sets, it's never worth buying sealed
I have 6086
whats the name of the faction with half grey and half red with blue around??
The black knights
@@Goldfyre tysm
Do u work in LEGO? If u dont u should
2008?? you, good sir, are objectively and factually wrong!!!!! but thats fine! if we all loved the same year we'd all be pretty boring!