@@robonaught True, I would love to see a revival of it. Especially since the Bulls need some kind of remake with a type of nomadic camp and war machines.
@@Autisticguywithacamera That and actually make the kingdom that Cedric came from as a prequel theme to KK1. I hate that Lego glossed over Cedric's story and didn't even consider making the kingdom he came from into a theme. Seeing Cedric's 12 other brothers and what Cedric was like back when he was in royal clothing and before he went rogue and changed to the black, red and grey bandit clothing he now wears? Hell yeah I want that! Perfect opportunity for a new theme and to expand on the story of an old one. Besides in this day and age Lego loves making their villains have depth, motivation and even possible development for redemption. For an early 2000s Lego villain Cedric had these traits so what's wrong with bringing him back? MAKE IT HAPPEN LEGO YOU HEAR ME!? I want my boy Cedric back and the potential he deserved! Not that crap you made him in Lego Island 2!
@@Autisticguywithacamera @robonaught What the Bull Knights need is a proper home - *_Castle/Fortress_* - in which they can call their own, there! It is such a figurative crime that the Bull Knights didn't even got a building/structure in the LEGO Knights' Kingdom (I) theme!!! 😑😑😑
6062 was my first set! I’ll never forget it. Now, I’m almost 47. My only constant has been bodybuilding, but, now I’ve switched from gaming as my other hobby - back to LEGO!
I was never really a Castle guy growing up, but I do remember seeing some of the sets and thinking "Hey that looks neat." 3 episodes left, huh? It's been a great ride for these years.
I had at least two sets from the '07 Castle theme, the Knight's Catapult Defense and the Skeleton Prison Carriage. I totally agree with the Skeleton Tower's design, even if its functions were rather similar to the Fight for the Golden Tower from Exo Force that same year. In fact the Exo-Force episode and the Knights Kingdom episode were how I found this series in the first place.
1:11 "So I guess this isn't that unrealistic" Actually, the stereotypical image of a gray, gloomy castle is the unrealistic one. Castles had richly painted interiors and exteriors, and the interiors had lavish, complex paintings and frescos depicting scenes of the Bible and what have you. A yellow castle is closer to reality than a gray, colorless one.
With the 90th anniversary castle announcement and Forestmen GWP, it feels good looking back at this video. Tough I wish there was more regular castle sets and varied forestmen sets, but I’m glad for something Maybe someday I’ll be able to say something similar about Bionicle. Regardless, both castle and Bionicle have thriving moc communities, and I’m glad to be able to participate in it myself
Watching this after the new Lion Castle revealed at LEGOCON. Between the blacksmith shop, last year’s 3in1 castle, and this years offerings, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a full new castle THEME to come back sooner than later. There is certainly a market for it.
You know what makes rewind so good? Lego’s awesome as hecc Also rewind is like a mini documentary, you get to see history and examples of different lego series. Regular documentaries are long, and pretty much there to Only teach rather than “I like this”. Here, nice, simple, more down to Earth.
@@BiomechanicalBrick I would be happy to run that. Mega Bloks had some amazing themes despite the brick quality like Block Bots, their version of Castle and Motor Sports racers.
Im really hoping they release some dnd related theme soon because I’m contemplating starting a lego stop motion based of off all the dnd campaigns I’ve ever played
@Ty Bey Me too! An official LEGO beholder, Illithid, or giant would be great! It'd be really fun as they could have all the dragons, with their defining features (Blues have that big horn on their noses, blacks have that skeletal look, golds have the whisker looking tentacle thingys, ect)
The "second half" of Kingdoms is actually a 2013 redo of Castle. I really didn't care much for it as the 2007 Castle and Kingdoms were way better in my opinion. I actually have a lot of minifigures from almost all of those themes, and I've put a lot of them in the Knights' Kingdom 1 castle I own. Besides that, I actually made the Skeleton Tower from the 2007 Castle with the parts I have, and that underbite can be pulled up like a drawbridge, which I find a pretty good function. The front part even splits open to allow people to enter or leave it
The dragons in Elves look so well made and designed. Wish lego would make more dragons like that, a UCS style dragon that's built up with bicks and plates would be super cool tbh.
Only three more episodes, eh? It’s been an honor to be able to have the privilege to watch the series. Can’t wait to see the next chapter for your channel. God’s speed, you glorious bastard.
I forget about the "double wheel thingy"when I was a lot younger me and my dad were big Castle fans and we would build castles together, I'm very nostalgic about Castle and I remember really wanting that "double wheel thingy" set because it was like something I've never seen before, I never get it.
Hard to believe there's only 3 episodes to go. It's been so much fun going along with you on this journey through all these Lego themes, thank you for putting all these together over the past couple of years.
Oh, I was obsessed with Lego Castle back in the late 80's/early 90's... I really loved how they handled the factions back then. Each faction had a giant home-base set and a couple outposts, (I don't think the revived dragon knights ever got a real castle) and there was always overlap between introducing new factions and retiring old ones...It just made the world feel huge! One big free-for all... There were many times as a kid when I had three or four MOC castles going at once, all fighting each other!
Mid 2000s castle was my first Lego love, it got taken over by Bionicle and Star Wars but it’s what got me really into Lego after I played with some old castle sets at my grandmother’s
As a fan of LEGO for 20+ years, castle was and always will be my favorite core theme. My top 3 favorite sub-themes are: 1. Ninja (most people consider it part of castle) 2. Fright Knights 3. Kingdoms
That wizard with Ogel's reminds me of how Lego, at least used, to have characters in one theme be related to characters in another. Made everything, baring the licensed themes of course, feel interconnected like it was all one world. I have not had the money to be as into Lego as I used to be for a good amount of time now so I have no idea if this is something they still do.
As a kid, the vast majority of my LEGO sets were Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and of course Star Wars. But I've always admired the Castle line, ESPECIALLY the old sets like Forestmen, which I think just have such an awesome aesthetic. I guess the line isn't very profitable anymore, but I'd love it if LEGO started making larger sets in the theme that are more detailed, kind of like modulars. If they released a full 360 Castle themed build per year I would definitely buy them. BTW absolutely love your series you made it's really detailed and well done, feels like a short documentary series you'd see on PBS.
What I love about Castle is that it's really easy to say that it's all one big world. We get to see empires rise and fall, and it's all great stuff! You could have the Kingdoms stuff from 2011 stand alongside the early 80s classics like the Black Falcons and they still look good together.
Castle and Lego are a match made in Heaven. Castles are literally made out of bricks. It's a shame that it's no longer around. I feel like the Lord of the Rings theme that existed with the final Castle run filled the void of a darker Castle theme.
Hi Nick, Just a quick message to say I really, really enjoyed this episode. It hit me right in the nostalgia sweet spot and also made me think. Thanks for all your work on this and for sharing it with the community.
7:24 You couldn't have said it any better! It just makes me look back at _LEGO City_ and _LEGO Friends,_ and how just like you said with _Nexo Knights_ and _Elves_ failing to deliver more than half of the castle experience, it feels like the same can be said about _LEGO City_ and _LEGO Friends._ _LEGO City_ heavily focuses on jobs like emergency services and rarely dedicates sets to normal civilian life, whereas _LEGO Friends_ is more dedicated towards civilian life. It just feels like a stupid gender divide on The LEGO Group's part with the common belief that "Only boys would play with toys of police officers and don't care about civilian life" and "Girls don't want to bother playing as rescue workers, they just want to relax in their civilian lives." It also makes me wish that The LEGO Group never dropped _LEGO City Undercover,_ but instead kept it as a subtheme of _LEGO City_ where it can focus more on action set-pieces with emergency services and named characters, leaving the mainline _LEGO City_ sets open for more sets revolving around civilian life with generic characters. But that never happened and we are stuck with what we have now. Heck, if _Ninjago: Dragons Rising_ and even the _LEGO Friends_ reboot can allow for new characters to coexist with legacy characters, I wish the same could happen for _LEGO City Undercover_ and _LEGO City Adventures._
It’s funny cause lego friends has had 3 separate hospitals, and PLENTY of sets rescuing animals… But 2024 is the first time where getting a stand alone ambulance, 2022-2023 for lego city has had a school, a abandoned factory, a grocery store, a skatepark, Icecream store, a home, and a downtown set, the problem with ALL those sets is they feel junirized, and of course the price. Many of the LEGO friends sets are 8+, and think about how rarely we GET a 8+ city set but how much we’ve been getting friends sets that are 8,10,12, and now 14+ Lego friends isn’t better because it has civilian life, it’s better because of the age ranges, and designs, the techniques
LEGOLAND Castle 1984 to 1992 made me so happy as a kid. I was thrillked to see it come back to life as Kingdoms in the 2000s. I hope they go back to that formula next time.
I remember when this came out and my 12 year old son showed it to me and for the first time in years I shed a tear of joy knowing some of today’s kids love the more vintage side of lego
Little update: after watching the video I discovered my old royal knights set called skeleton surprise and even more recently I found my brother’s old black falcon catapult from 1984
I loved the Fantasy Castle line with the dwarves, their mountain base with the mine cart railway was and awesome "castle" set. Plus, the dwarves had the coolest helmets.
Castle was always a huge part of my life I would love too see the animals from eleven and the castle from castles in one theme Like these two races living side by side but still different factions getting into war No good guys or bad guys Or good creatures and bad creatures Just a world
I had the 7094 Castle as a kid and it was amazing. Thank you for doing this series! It's really fun seeing all the different themes and how they've evolved.
castle was my favorite out of all the legos, im biased tho, i love the medieval era. The stop-motion animations were awesome and i liked the feel of it.
I’ve been waiting for this one. My very first Lego set was the 1984 Knight’s Castle, and that one set caused me to be a lifelong Lego Castle fan. It also spurred my quest to collect every lego castle. It is almost done. I have about 70% of the Yellow Castle, and I’m slowly piecing it together. Good stuff.
I love how well thought out everything you say is, and how you actually have done research, even in history about the castle colors! Love your channel man! I pray for more Castle themes!
*_I KNOW..._* right...?! LEGO LEGOLAND/System Castle from 1984 through 1992 holds an extra special place in my emotional heart!!! I've been buying old LEGO Castle minifigures, sets and parts from that era from Bricklink off-and-on for the past year-and-a-half in due to no new LEGO Castle sets from The LEGO Company for the past 5 years!
I wanna be honest, but that ending, explaining some of the future possibilities for these great classic lego themes like City, Castle, pirates, Space, and Bionicle, is quite a heart touching for old lego fans.
One thing i mostly missed in castle themes was the civilian based builds thats why yeah the farm and the town square sets from the lego castle and kingdoms themes are some of my favorite because they look more towards the civilians and less the soldiers for a medieval world you had suprisingly few buildings for a city or settlement. i think even though the original castle thems look simple that makes them look nice the siege towers are simple but do what they need to do i would love to see a castle theme again that has the astetic of kingdoms but the world building of the earlier things and more civilian based sets and for a castle they could make one giant castle through smaller sets than you can combine and give you the freedom to make your own castle like a set with a greathall/throne room an armory a set with the towers and walls maybe like a great tower so they can try out new designs for a castle to keep it intresting
I could never choose a favorite between Space, Castle, and Pirates. Looking back on Castle, I would love to collect all the Fright Knights. I loeved the commercial that featured Fright Knights and UFO.
Love the tier with the trolls and dwarves, that was the closest to a real fantasy setting that still felt knightly and traditional. maybe its world of warcraft brainrot but having a consistant fantasy setting in which all the different races of these sets inhabit live and communicate would be a wonderful resurgence for this line, mix it with viking themes and pirate ones and you have a full fledged fantasy line that im sure many could love.
So the year is 2021. We have a blacksmiths shop and a creator castle and both are technically black falcon sets. Mabey its not the time to bring back it as a full line but at least thr sets are amazing. Hopefully space will put in creator like castle. Just can i get something other than classic space
I always wanted the Dwarf Fortress as a kid, and really need to pick it up one of these days. I had completely forgotten about the Kingdoms farm set! I always wanted it for the chickens! Man has the time flown...
In celebration of Lego's 90th anniversary, they announced that a huge Castle inspired set would be created to celebrate. So no, Castle isn't completely dead :)
Definitely agree. It takes the whole lived in doll house thing to another level while keeping it a little gritty and historic as opposed to the Elves fantastical setting. Was also just a stellar building experience as I remember it, but that might just be because of nostalgia :)
@@NickonPlanetRipple You also forgot the LEGO Castle Chess and LEGO Castle Giant Chess sets! The second, bigger one is the biggest LEGO Castle set *_of all time!!!_*
I remember there was a market set, with a black smith, on other building and of course a market circling a tree. Honestly my most favorite mature set from Kingdoms
It might be due to nostalgia but I reaaaaally enjoy the fantasy era. It just has a certain late 2000 charm to it especially when it comes to the variety and insanity of some of the troll builds.
Castle always has a special place in my heart, one of my first stop motions used a bunch of 2014 castle sets, I’m sure the video is long gone by now though
6:08 I had the set on the right when I was little and I loved that thing to death! Seriously I have attempted to rebuild it many times but there is no hope for it.
0:57 I would say the bigger issue is that these knights apparently built a castle the same color as their own flesh, but I used to live in a light nougat colored house, so I'm not really one to talk
my aunt has TONS of legos from the late 70’s to the 80’s from when my cousins were growing up (obviously way older then me) and i remember she’d let me have some OG astronauts and other cool minifigs
Wow, that was fun to watch. So I had a old lego castle you didn't flash up, but that's okay. Been nearly 30 years since I messed with Legos. But I bought a couple Ninjago sets...but then I saw Nexo Knight sets, then Monster Fighters...I've missed a lot of sets over the years. Shame I missed those, because I really liked the He-Man toys that mixed science and sorcery together. And Nexo Knights was looking to be a cool castle series.
As soon as I saw skeleton carriage from Fantasy era I immediately fall in love with that theme. In my opinion it was the best castle theme since it had four fractions with somewhat different aesthetics. I always imagined that orcs, dwarves and humans were separate and had their own conflicts and temporary alliences, while skeletons were that hivemind type of legion that just floods you with numbers. And when it ended and next castle theme came I just took it as two fractions inside human fraction, like two lesser lords that don't like each other but they serve the same king and they have to raid each other since they can't just start war with each other and risk that King would intervene. Then came that last castle theme and it was nice. I mostly used it to improve previous themes. And then came Nexo knights. And I knew that I won't get next castle any time soon. In castle I always loved something that was also in space theme. You can get few sets from different themes and they'll still somewhat fit together. Especially fantasy era and later. And even Nexo knights managed somewhat to do that with lava monsters and gargoyles.
I had such a mishmash of Knights sets. Some of the 80s and most of the smaller 90s sets (the older ones often bought second hand in biscuit tins). The huge mix of factions, and the varied heraldry within the factions meant you could play tournaments or complicated political situations really easily. To this day I've got a small plate of mixed Knights figures in a diorama loosely inspired by Hastings. And I've used lego figures a few times over the last few years (mostly LotR but some Knights) for playing d&d. Tbh if they ever released more of the small modernised sets (especially figure heavy ones) I'd probably buy them. Lol.
Yellow castle was the true game of throned dark souls of the castle theme. Forgot to mention but the Lord Vladek minifig from Knight's Kingdom also has the Ogel face print.
Nice finally did this one Reminds me of when I did a LEGO castle report paper earlier this year which was fun;) ( think might’ve used some of the rewinds for those too)
Knights' Kingdom 2 was literally my childhood. I think I got every single set and constraction figure from both the first and second waves, save for one or two exclusives. I loved that line to death. Unfortunately, they're all in pieces now, scattered between who knows how many boxes.
Fantasy Era was my castle theme growing up! Still love it, buying more figs to join my ranks on Bricklink. Still bitter they ended it before elves were added to the good forces with tree fortresses and the such!
I remember meeting a kid when I was 11 or so whose mom wouldn’t let him get the fantasy castle sets because of the skeletons. It was dark magic and would open his mind for corruption. I wish I was kidding. I also remember trying to win the big castle set of that year from some cereal box, of course I didn’t win it but my parents ending up getting it for Christmas.
Imagine a castle line, with different parts of a castle that you can combine, like with with hogwarts. Everything combined can be one huge castle with everything in it. That'd be amazing
It’s really depressing that castle is gone. So much for “evergreen themes”
Maybe it'll be back someday. Who knows, maybe Lego will go back to making more original themes someday.
@@Autisticguywithacamera Knights Kingdom 1 definitely needs a prequel theme to it. Because of reasons explained back in episode 26
@@robonaught True, I would love to see a revival of it. Especially since the Bulls need some kind of remake with a type of nomadic camp and war machines.
@@Autisticguywithacamera That and actually make the kingdom that Cedric came from as a prequel theme to KK1. I hate that Lego glossed over Cedric's story and didn't even consider making the kingdom he came from into a theme. Seeing Cedric's 12 other brothers and what Cedric was like back when he was in royal clothing and before he went rogue and changed to the black, red and grey bandit clothing he now wears? Hell yeah I want that! Perfect opportunity for a new theme and to expand on the story of an old one. Besides in this day and age Lego loves making their villains have depth, motivation and even possible development for redemption. For an early 2000s Lego villain Cedric had these traits so what's wrong with bringing him back? MAKE IT HAPPEN LEGO YOU HEAR ME!? I want my boy Cedric back and the potential he deserved! Not that crap you made him in Lego Island 2!
@@Autisticguywithacamera @robonaught
What the Bull Knights need is a proper home - *_Castle/Fortress_* - in which they can call their own, there! It is such a figurative crime that the Bull Knights didn't even got a building/structure in the LEGO Knights' Kingdom (I) theme!!! 😑😑😑
We had Vikings, European style settings, and ninjas. We could defiantly use some Greek/ Roman stuff.
Lego has made a few Greek/Roman characters in CMF like Medusa and the Minotaur so it isn't completely out of the question!
Yo this dude knows what's up
Closest we got so far is Atlantis
6062 was my first set! I’ll never forget it. Now, I’m almost 47. My only constant has been bodybuilding, but, now I’ve switched from gaming as my other hobby - back to LEGO!
They do have the molds and colors done before for blindpack figures, yeah we needs some Roman sets
I was never really a Castle guy growing up, but I do remember seeing some of the sets and thinking "Hey that looks neat."
3 episodes left, huh? It's been a great ride for these years.
I had at least two sets from the '07 Castle theme, the Knight's Catapult Defense and the Skeleton Prison Carriage. I totally agree with the Skeleton Tower's design, even if its functions were rather similar to the Fight for the Golden Tower from Exo Force that same year. In fact the Exo-Force episode and the Knights Kingdom episode were how I found this series in the first place.
1:11 "So I guess this isn't that unrealistic"
Actually, the stereotypical image of a gray, gloomy castle is the unrealistic one. Castles had richly painted interiors and exteriors, and the interiors had lavish, complex paintings and frescos depicting scenes of the Bible and what have you. A yellow castle is closer to reality than a gray, colorless one.
The thing is that people tend to base their knowledge of castles on castle *ruins*, which don't always reflect what they looked like in their prime.
@@Quirderph yep. Same thing with Greek statues, pretty much all of them were colored.
@@terminator572 (Admitedly, they look better colorless tho...)
With the 90th anniversary castle announcement and Forestmen GWP, it feels good looking back at this video. Tough I wish there was more regular castle sets and varied forestmen sets, but I’m glad for something
Maybe someday I’ll be able to say something similar about Bionicle. Regardless, both castle and Bionicle have thriving moc communities, and I’m glad to be able to participate in it myself
Watching this after the new Lion Castle revealed at LEGOCON. Between the blacksmith shop, last year’s 3in1 castle, and this years offerings, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a full new castle THEME to come back sooner than later. There is certainly a market for it.
You know what makes rewind so good?
Lego’s awesome as hecc
Also rewind is like a mini documentary, you get to see history and examples of different lego series. Regular documentaries are long, and pretty much there to Only teach rather than “I like this”. Here, nice, simple, more down to Earth.
4:48 My weapon of choice for steamrolling all my Mega Bloks figures
@@BiomechanicalBrick I was so happy with the April Fools episode!
Would love a Blok Bots one
@@BiomechanicalBrick I would be happy to run that. Mega Bloks had some amazing themes despite the brick quality like Block Bots, their version of Castle and Motor Sports racers.
Wasn’t there a gundam mega blox series?
Dragons is that big competition
I hope we get a more DnD styled castle set
What if we got an actual dnd set?
Im really hoping they release some dnd related theme soon because I’m contemplating starting a lego stop motion based of off all the dnd campaigns I’ve ever played
@@DinomaxProductions I think one of the "clone brands" has the DnD lisence
@Ty Bey Me too! An official LEGO beholder, Illithid, or giant would be great! It'd be really fun as they could have all the dragons, with their defining features (Blues have that big horn on their noses, blacks have that skeletal look, golds have the whisker looking tentacle thingys, ect)
@@DinomaxProductions if I were you I would make the story's from scratch to not limit yourself. But that sounds like a cool idea.
The "second half" of Kingdoms is actually a 2013 redo of Castle. I really didn't care much for it as the 2007 Castle and Kingdoms were way better in my opinion. I actually have a lot of minifigures from almost all of those themes, and I've put a lot of them in the Knights' Kingdom 1 castle I own. Besides that, I actually made the Skeleton Tower from the 2007 Castle with the parts I have, and that underbite can be pulled up like a drawbridge, which I find a pretty good function. The front part even splits open to allow people to enter or leave it
Granted, it *is* a second half of Kingdoms in all but name.
"With town and space just taking off"
Space. Taking off. I see what you did there
The dragons in Elves look so well made and designed. Wish lego would make more dragons like that, a UCS style dragon that's built up with bicks and plates would be super cool tbh.
Only three more episodes, eh? It’s been an honor to be able to have the privilege to watch the series. Can’t wait to see the next chapter for your channel. God’s speed, you glorious bastard.
They really need to revive this series
I forget about the "double wheel thingy"when I was a lot younger me and my dad were big Castle fans and we would build castles together, I'm very nostalgic about Castle and I remember really wanting that "double wheel thingy" set because it was like something I've never seen before, I never get it.
the Toll Battle Wheel is one of my favorites, it even comes with a knight with a weird chain-stick thingy to jam the wheel and topple the thing over.
I can’t believe that 2022 has been for Castle what 2020 was for giant brick-built skulls.
Lego castle? Lego castle... now that's a theme I haven't heard of in a long time....
Hard to believe there's only 3 episodes to go. It's been so much fun going along with you on this journey through all these Lego themes, thank you for putting all these together over the past couple of years.
Oh, I was obsessed with Lego Castle back in the late 80's/early 90's... I really loved how they handled the factions back then. Each faction had a giant home-base set and a couple outposts, (I don't think the revived dragon knights ever got a real castle) and there was always overlap between introducing new factions and retiring old ones...It just made the world feel huge! One big free-for all... There were many times as a kid when I had three or four MOC castles going at once, all fighting each other!
*_*I KNOW...*_* right...?! Those were the days... 😖😖😖
Mid 2000s castle was my first Lego love, it got taken over by Bionicle and Star Wars but it’s what got me really into Lego after I played with some old castle sets at my grandmother’s
Fantasy Era is my all time favorite theme. I hope they revisit something like it again one day.
I like comming back to these videos every year or two
As a fan of LEGO for 20+ years, castle was and always will be my favorite core theme.
My top 3 favorite sub-themes are:
1. Ninja (most people consider it part of castle)
2. Fright Knights
3. Kingdoms
Top 3 Themes which need to come back:
1.) Castle
2.) Vikings
3.) Orient Express
Don't you mean Orient Expedition/Adventurers?
the music choices, combined with your voice, its brilliant.
That wizard with Ogel's reminds me of how Lego, at least used, to have characters in one theme be related to characters in another. Made everything, baring the licensed themes of course, feel interconnected like it was all one world. I have not had the money to be as into Lego as I used to be for a good amount of time now so I have no idea if this is something they still do.
As a kid, the vast majority of my LEGO sets were Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and of course Star Wars. But I've always admired the Castle line, ESPECIALLY the old sets like Forestmen, which I think just have such an awesome aesthetic. I guess the line isn't very profitable anymore, but I'd love it if LEGO started making larger sets in the theme that are more detailed, kind of like modulars. If they released a full 360 Castle themed build per year I would definitely buy them. BTW absolutely love your series you made it's really detailed and well done, feels like a short documentary series you'd see on PBS.
This might be my most nostalgic series
It is now 2022. 10305 is available. The largest castle Lego has ever made , intended for mere mortals.
What I love about Castle is that it's really easy to say that it's all one big world. We get to see empires rise and fall, and it's all great stuff! You could have the Kingdoms stuff from 2011 stand alongside the early 80s classics like the Black Falcons and they still look good together.
I really have to appreciate the use of the Panzer Dragoon OST. Great job Nick!
This video, is one of my best birthday Gifts! Thank you Nick! I Love you!
Castle and Lego are a match made in Heaven. Castles are literally made out of bricks. It's a shame that it's no longer around.
I feel like the Lord of the Rings theme that existed with the final Castle run filled the void of a darker Castle theme.
Hi Nick, Just a quick message to say I really, really enjoyed this episode. It hit me right in the nostalgia sweet spot and also made me think. Thanks for all your work on this and for sharing it with the community.
I was never into castles and knights until I got one. It was really fun to play. I hope they bring it back one day. This theme has so much potential.
7:24 You couldn't have said it any better!
It just makes me look back at _LEGO City_ and _LEGO Friends,_ and how just like you said with _Nexo Knights_ and _Elves_ failing to deliver more than half of the castle experience, it feels like the same can be said about _LEGO City_ and _LEGO Friends._ _LEGO City_ heavily focuses on jobs like emergency services and rarely dedicates sets to normal civilian life, whereas _LEGO Friends_ is more dedicated towards civilian life.
It just feels like a stupid gender divide on The LEGO Group's part with the common belief that "Only boys would play with toys of police officers and don't care about civilian life" and "Girls don't want to bother playing as rescue workers, they just want to relax in their civilian lives."
It also makes me wish that The LEGO Group never dropped _LEGO City Undercover,_ but instead kept it as a subtheme of _LEGO City_ where it can focus more on action set-pieces with emergency services and named characters, leaving the mainline _LEGO City_ sets open for more sets revolving around civilian life with generic characters. But that never happened and we are stuck with what we have now. Heck, if _Ninjago: Dragons Rising_ and even the _LEGO Friends_ reboot can allow for new characters to coexist with legacy characters, I wish the same could happen for _LEGO City Undercover_ and _LEGO City Adventures._
It’s funny cause lego friends has had 3 separate hospitals, and PLENTY of sets rescuing animals…
But 2024 is the first time where getting a stand alone ambulance, 2022-2023 for lego city has had a school, a abandoned factory, a grocery store, a skatepark, Icecream store, a home, and a downtown set, the problem with ALL those sets is they feel junirized, and of course the price.
Many of the LEGO friends sets are 8+, and think about how rarely we GET a 8+ city set but how much we’ve been getting friends sets that are 8,10,12, and now 14+
Lego friends isn’t better because it has civilian life, it’s better because of the age ranges, and designs, the techniques
It's been one hell off a ride
LEGOLAND Castle 1984 to 1992 made me so happy as a kid. I was thrillked to see it come back to life as Kingdoms in the 2000s. I hope they go back to that formula next time.
I remember when this came out and my 12 year old son showed it to me and for the first time in years I shed a tear of joy knowing some of today’s kids love the more vintage side of lego
You mean this video? Wow...
Yep the very same, thanks for inspiring my kid 😀
Little update: after watching the video I discovered my old royal knights set called skeleton surprise and even more recently I found my brother’s old black falcon catapult from 1984
I loved the Fantasy Castle line with the dwarves, their mountain base with the mine cart railway was and awesome "castle" set. Plus, the dwarves had the coolest helmets.
Castle was always a huge part of my life
I would love too see the animals from eleven and the castle from castles in one theme
Like these two races living side by side but still different factions getting into war
No good guys or bad guys
Or good creatures and bad creatures
Just a world
I had the 7094 Castle as a kid and it was amazing. Thank you for doing this series! It's really fun seeing all the different themes and how they've evolved.
They didn’t expect the $400 Lego Castle in the future.
castle was my favorite out of all the legos, im biased tho, i love the medieval era. The stop-motion animations were awesome and i liked the feel of it.
I’ve been waiting for this one. My very first Lego set was the 1984 Knight’s Castle, and that one set caused me to be a lifelong Lego Castle fan. It also spurred my quest to collect every lego castle. It is almost done. I have about 70% of the Yellow Castle, and I’m slowly piecing it together.
Good stuff.
So glad to see the revival of castle in a limited fashion now I just need the money to buy the sets
This is what I’ve been waiting for
One of my all time favourite themes
I love how well thought out everything you say is, and how you actually have done research, even in history about the castle colors!
Love your channel man!
I pray for more Castle themes!
I always loved the simple and more historical appearance of the original castle sets.
*_I KNOW..._* right...?! LEGO LEGOLAND/System Castle from 1984 through 1992 holds an extra special place in my emotional heart!!! I've been buying old LEGO Castle minifigures, sets and parts from that era from Bricklink off-and-on for the past year-and-a-half in due to no new LEGO Castle sets from The LEGO Company for the past 5 years!
I wanna be honest, but that ending, explaining some of the future possibilities for these great classic lego themes like City, Castle, pirates, Space, and Bionicle, is quite a heart touching for old lego fans.
One thing i mostly missed in castle themes was the civilian based builds thats why yeah the farm and the town square sets from the lego castle and kingdoms themes are some of my favorite because they look more towards the civilians and less the soldiers for a medieval world you had suprisingly few buildings for a city or settlement. i think even though the original castle thems look simple that makes them look nice the siege towers are simple but do what they need to do i would love to see a castle theme again that has the astetic of kingdoms but the world building of the earlier things and more civilian based sets and for a castle they could make one giant castle through smaller sets than you can combine and give you the freedom to make your own castle like a set with a greathall/throne room an armory a set with the towers and walls maybe like a great tower so they can try out new designs for a castle to keep it intresting
I have waited soooo long for this episode
I’ve had the song from the Castle 2007 angry birds-style flash game stuck in my head for half my life.
I really want castle to return. I picked up 2 of the 2014 sets and was wanting more before they left store shelves.
I could never choose a favorite between Space, Castle, and Pirates. Looking back on Castle, I would love to collect all the Fright Knights. I loeved the commercial that featured Fright Knights and UFO.
Love the tier with the trolls and dwarves, that was the closest to a real fantasy setting that still felt knightly and traditional. maybe its world of warcraft brainrot but having a consistant fantasy setting in which all the different races of these sets inhabit live and communicate would be a wonderful resurgence for this line, mix it with viking themes and pirate ones and you have a full fledged fantasy line that im sure many could love.
So the year is 2021. We have a blacksmiths shop and a creator castle and both are technically black falcon sets. Mabey its not the time to bring back it as a full line but at least thr sets are amazing. Hopefully space will put in creator like castle. Just can i get something other than classic space
I've seen people combine all three castle builds into one big structure, and my word is it beautiful.
@@NickonPlanetRipple i plan on buying 3 castles. I have the blacksmiths shop
I always wanted the Dwarf Fortress as a kid, and really need to pick it up one of these days.
I had completely forgotten about the Kingdoms farm set! I always wanted it for the chickens! Man has the time flown...
Fantasy era, is one of my favourite! Thanks for the vid
Castle is one of my favorite themes ever I hope it comes back one day.
I absolutely love your voice, you sound like one of those 20s news presenters
Awesome Video Nick! Looking forward to how the series develops to the end. Keep the relaxed vibe and the awesome footage, you are doing great.
In celebration of Lego's 90th anniversary, they announced that a huge Castle inspired set would be created to celebrate.
So no, Castle isn't completely dead :)
Each time I watch another episode of lego rewind I finish up going to ebay and buying some lego stuff from the 90s I wanted but never had!
I’m really glad lego is seeing castle is more viable with adult audiences now, what with the blacksmith shop and the creator castle
What Castel needed to be: old style Lego City
Why didn't The Medieval Market Village show up in this video? That set is a true classic!
I.... didn't know it was supposed to.
Definitely agree. It takes the whole lived in doll house thing to another level while keeping it a little gritty and historic as opposed to the Elves fantastical setting. Was also just a stellar building experience as I remember it, but that might just be because of nostalgia :)
@@NickonPlanetRipple You also forgot the LEGO Castle Chess and LEGO Castle Giant Chess sets! The second, bigger one is the biggest LEGO Castle set *_of all time!!!_*
BRING BACK CLASSIC CASTLE SETS!!!!!
I remember there was a market set, with a black smith, on other building and of course a market circling a tree. Honestly my most favorite mature set from Kingdoms
Castle was my absolute favorite theme back when I was a kid in the 80's.
It might be due to nostalgia but I reaaaaally enjoy the fantasy era. It just has a certain late 2000 charm to it especially when it comes to the variety and insanity of some of the troll builds.
And now for the episode you've all been waiting for
One of my favorite set themes:Castle. thanks Nick!! :)
Castle always has a special place in my heart, one of my first stop motions used a bunch of 2014 castle sets, I’m sure the video is long gone by now though
The Elves sets are GORGEOUS
i wonna be 10 years old again and have the old castle sets i love the style and aesthetic of the old dark castle sets
I loved castle so much when I was little, completely forgot I even had castle sets until now
At a ma and pop Store near me they have a 1980s Lego display with a massive Castle
Woah.
6:08 I had the set on the right when I was little and I loved that thing to death! Seriously I have attempted to rebuild it many times but there is no hope for it.
0:57
I would say the bigger issue is that these knights apparently built a castle the same color as their own flesh, but I used to live in a light nougat colored house, so I'm not really one to talk
my aunt has TONS of legos from the late 70’s to the 80’s from when my cousins were growing up (obviously way older then me) and i remember she’d let me have some
OG astronauts and other cool minifigs
Lego, sees video
Lego, “Not the last for long sucker!”
Wow, that was fun to watch. So I had a old lego castle you didn't flash up, but that's okay. Been nearly 30 years since I messed with Legos. But I bought a couple Ninjago sets...but then I saw Nexo Knight sets, then Monster Fighters...I've missed a lot of sets over the years. Shame I missed those, because I really liked the He-Man toys that mixed science and sorcery together. And Nexo Knights was looking to be a cool castle series.
Great video Nick! Hope you aren’t overworking yourself
As soon as I saw skeleton carriage from Fantasy era I immediately fall in love with that theme. In my opinion it was the best castle theme since it had four fractions with somewhat different aesthetics. I always imagined that orcs, dwarves and humans were separate and had their own conflicts and temporary alliences, while skeletons were that hivemind type of legion that just floods you with numbers.
And when it ended and next castle theme came I just took it as two fractions inside human fraction, like two lesser lords that don't like each other but they serve the same king and they have to raid each other since they can't just start war with each other and risk that King would intervene.
Then came that last castle theme and it was nice. I mostly used it to improve previous themes.
And then came Nexo knights. And I knew that I won't get next castle any time soon.
In castle I always loved something that was also in space theme. You can get few sets from different themes and they'll still somewhat fit together. Especially fantasy era and later. And even Nexo knights managed somewhat to do that with lava monsters and gargoyles.
The dead outnumber the living.
I had such a mishmash of Knights sets. Some of the 80s and most of the smaller 90s sets (the older ones often bought second hand in biscuit tins).
The huge mix of factions, and the varied heraldry within the factions meant you could play tournaments or complicated political situations really easily. To this day I've got a small plate of mixed Knights figures in a diorama loosely inspired by Hastings.
And I've used lego figures a few times over the last few years (mostly LotR but some Knights) for playing d&d.
Tbh if they ever released more of the small modernised sets (especially figure heavy ones) I'd probably buy them. Lol.
Yellow castle was the true game of throned dark souls of the castle theme. Forgot to mention but the Lord Vladek minifig from Knight's Kingdom also has the Ogel face print.
Vladek does not has the same face as Ogel. There's some similarity but they are not the same.
@@robonaught the left eye might not be red but the facial expression is 100% carbon copy.
Nice finally did this one
Reminds me of when I did a LEGO castle report paper earlier this year which was fun;)
( think might’ve used some of the rewinds for those too)
Knights' Kingdom 2 was literally my childhood. I think I got every single set and constraction figure from both the first and second waves, save for one or two exclusives. I loved that line to death. Unfortunately, they're all in pieces now, scattered between who knows how many boxes.
There's an entire episode about them, if you're interested. Ep21.
@@NickonPlanetRipple Yep, I remember it.
9:40 Wow, this is going to be big. The very beginning of Lego, from the look of it.
Fantasy Era was my castle theme growing up! Still love it, buying more figs to join my ranks on Bricklink. Still bitter they ended it before elves were added to the good forces with tree fortresses and the such!
this is what i'm here for. thanks man
I remember meeting a kid when I was 11 or so whose mom wouldn’t let him get the fantasy castle sets because of the skeletons. It was dark magic and would open his mind for corruption. I wish I was kidding. I also remember trying to win the big castle set of that year from some cereal box, of course I didn’t win it but my parents ending up getting it for Christmas.
Parents worry about things that NOBODY should EVER worry about.
Can you do Lord of the rings
I wish castle came back
Great video
man you guys must've came with the latest giant castle set. good vid
6:42 I found that one in toy shop I think last year. don't know why it was there but I bought it anyway.
Imagine a castle line, with different parts of a castle that you can combine, like with with hogwarts. Everything combined can be one huge castle with everything in it. That'd be amazing
'town and space just taking off'
*you had the perfect oportunity for a joke there and you wasted it....... disapointing*
That was the joke.
@@NickonPlanetRipple oh
.... I got wooshed.......
Hey look on the bright side I got noticed
MINDBUILDER 87 ha
nice combilation. I'm waiting for a nice new castle set for quite a while now. Hope Lego will bring some soon.
I hope there will be a new castle theme