Lego Bricklink Castle 2024 Mountain Fortress: Is is Worth it?

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  • @Baroque_cast
    @Baroque_cast 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    update: 30k people paid $380 for a fan design and it sold out in less than 3 hours. CASTLE IS BACK BABY!!!!!!!!

    • @SimplyEricc
      @SimplyEricc 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      For real. If Lego doesn't see the insane demand for a Castle Theme now then they are crazy! We want castle, Lego wants money. It's the perfect match, take our money.

    • @BB2O2
      @BB2O2  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's big! Maybe there will be another production run.

    • @lifedeather
      @lifedeather 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BB2O2 hope so, so many people couldnt get one

    • @ivnproductions
      @ivnproductions 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BB2O2 so im sorry im not understanding... after its sold out, its impossible to get ever again? Or if it does well they bring it back? Im confused...

    • @BB2O2
      @BB2O2  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ivnproductions It's sold out for now, but it's possible that they bring it back due to popularity

  • @SimplyEricc
    @SimplyEricc 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    When will we ever get another gorgeous, Gothic-Styled Castle in a wintery, mountain landscape from Lego? Yes, I 100% pruchased this bad boy and am hyped to pair it with the Lion knights castle.

  • @qdaniele97
    @qdaniele97 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    This is not a bottom-of-the-valley castle, this is a mountain fortress as the name says.
    It can't have, and doesn't need a moat. It has steep mountain slopes in its place.
    About your concerns of enemies reaching the basement, I've visited a real life medieval mountain fortress (beautifull by the way, a main fortified body built in between two natural occuring rock pillars carved out and used as watch towers) and its main defens strategy, once the enemy has passed the drawbridge, was exactly to retreat to the upper levels, pulling up ladders and blocking stairways, then deal with the enemies by shooting arrows and stones from the floor above through trapdoors.
    I assure you, nobody could've brought an explosive large enough to do any damage anywhere near the fortress, let alone inside. At least before dynamite-age.

    • @BB2O2
      @BB2O2  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for your reponse! I appreciate that you took the time for it since I love talking about this kind of stuff. A common medieval siege tactic was to tunnel under the opposing castle and bring it down from the inside by weakening the foundations. This involved fire in the early middle ages and gunpowder starting in the 1400's. Either would be sufficient to bring down this castle once the attackers breached the portcullis. Since there are no murder holes or access points to the stable other than the drawbridge, the defenders would have to open it up to stop them. I'm curious which castle you visited!

    • @qdaniele97
      @qdaniele97 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@BB2O2 It was the Castello della Pietra (Castle of the Rock) in nothern Italy: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_della_Pietra (unfortunately there is no english for the wikipedia page).
      It's relatively small but it was originally an actual castle (with a noble residing there) before becoming just a fortress under the Republic of Genoa.
      I understand your concerns about tunnelling under the walls and then burning the tunnel supports and/or blowing it up with some early explosive mixture. But depending on the terrain that would be very difficult for the attackers, at least without starting the tunnel unpractically far away from the fortress.

    • @rumpelpumpel7687
      @rumpelpumpel7687 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@BB2O2 tunneling the foundations of a castle only works if the castle is not standing on solid rock ... however "Mountain Castle" as qDaniele mentioned is supposed to be set on a mountain top. there is only hard rock underneath. The "burning the tunnels" method only worked because those tunnels had support structure that kept the tunnel stable. Once burned, the tunnel collapsed under the weight of the castle (im sure you know that already, but to make it clear for other thread readers...) Now if you already have a tunnel/cave/cellar or whatever that stands soundly on a hard ground and is made only from stone ... there is nothing you could do to weaken the foundation. A fire would only serve as a floor heating for the upper levels, especially during winter. You would have to bring masons/stone cutters with you to chip away on the arches and pillars. Like ... who does that?

  • @kaltech04
    @kaltech04 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I’m on the fence about this. I love the exterior, but I find the interior to be a bit drab and boring. I think it’s a bit overpriced with no new parts or prints, but I love castles and it would look good next to the lion knights’ castle and castle in the forest.
    I’ve got the green light from my wife to get it if I want, I just have to wrestle with the internal conflicts.
    EDIT: I think I'm going to skip this one. I think the interior could be made better with some additional pieces, but the price is just too high for what we get, and I'd rather wait and see what the medieval town square has going for it.

    • @korachof11
      @korachof11 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      With the medieval town square coming out soon, you may be happier with that! Look out for reveals tomorrow.

    • @romankristofic3208
      @romankristofic3208 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I have the same dilemma, compared to the lion knight's castle, it's just weak, but since I'm a fan of the castle, I'll definitely buy one (after all, it's an attraction - 30,000 pieces for the whole world and it's not a complete dud - the interior can be improved).

    • @kaltech04
      @kaltech04 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well, I went ahead and pre-ordered one. Seeing the medieval town square helped; too, because I found it a bit underwhelming. Although my daughter says the town square is her favorite new set, so we’ll end up with one eventually, haha.

    • @danielmaciszewski503
      @danielmaciszewski503 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Don't forget that these designs are limited to 4,000 pieces.

  • @magnuslauglo5356
    @magnuslauglo5356 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I wasn't interested at first but the more I watch reviews, the more I like it. I think whereas the LKC displays really well opened up, this one is a lot better closed up. And it's a shame that most of the pics of it have it opened up. But when it is closed, it basically is a tall towers surrounded on all sides by outer wall.
    The interior is very sparse and will need to be customized, but the castle is architecturally more appealing to me than the LKC was. It's pricey, but still under 10 cents per piece. And lots of the pieces in the LKC were small fiddly bits that added to the interior detail but not the overall size and mass of the castle.

  • @2468h-s9e
    @2468h-s9e 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Totally agree with the price point. For that much money it has to meet the highest standards.

    • @aoetje474
      @aoetje474 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      you mean the 1) lack of interior 2) mediocre selection of minifigures 3) having only 15 minifigs less that 10305 4) obvious design flaw with the portcullis in the middle making drawbridge a waste of time from a defence point of view? 5) fact that black falcons are not a winter faction 6) fact that we didn't get the obviously superior Brickwood Castle...sure sure highest standards

  • @themagicmonkey2513
    @themagicmonkey2513 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The portcullis leads to the ramp towards the drawbridge when the build is closed up, so then there is two barriers for entry. It is a little weird how it’s before the drawbridge, but closed it that’s an two barriers in and the „basement“ is not accessible. You can’t tell though unless you watch Solid Brix‘s early review

  • @thomasgolds4585
    @thomasgolds4585 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Price is def too high, but I realized that the size and detail was exactly what I was needing for one of my projects. Solidbrix did a stellar job reviewing it, and that was what pushed me into it.
    I’ll def be making some mods to it, but at the end of the day I can justify the price because by the time I finish designing, ordering parts, and assembling the castle, it’d basically be this thing!
    Only got one, but I think it could be a decent investment if someone did the “buy one sell one” strat… though it wasn’t something I wanted to bother with.
    MOST IMPORTANTLY, I think that his should really show LEGO that the castle fans need more content. Hopefully things don’t cost us as much though…

  • @brickzburg
    @brickzburg 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What had happened with the castle in the forest was that it was only supposed to sell 5k but bricklink/lego had a glitch and it allowed for 10k pre-orders, people were scared their pre-order would be canceled so lego decided they would just produce 10k of it. But to be fair to the other designers in the same series they re opened the preorders up to 10k for all the other projects except the castle since that one had already been ordered up to 10k. It might have been another set that had been allowed up to 10k due to the glitch and if so all this info would just apply to that one but no matter its all the same

  • @santiagomalagon6345
    @santiagomalagon6345 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The castle looks so good but I can´t understand why they would give some black falcons proper legs and give others those grey pants.

    • @rumpelpumpel7687
      @rumpelpumpel7687 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      that one bothered me aswell. That, and the gigantic chain jacks on portculis and draw bridge tower. you can barely put minifigs on those towers ...

  • @mrpleasy
    @mrpleasy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    With it YES, the brick link double instantly. But i build them to enjoy I’m not a re sales but it keeps the wife OK getting these sets

  • @romainhaller5686
    @romainhaller5686 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really love this castle and even at that price, I had to have it. There are two things I don't like so much and which I will probably amend: I think the black roofs are too plain, there I might add some proper roofing. I will probably also tile the interior floors and the way up the drawbridge, making it look like cobblestones.

  • @tommystirland6715
    @tommystirland6715 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I did think it was weird the portcullis being at the basement. I didn’t really think about what it meant as far as the castle being undefendable lol I’m still definitely going to buy it though. It’ll look nice next to the Lions knight castle, and I’ll have somewhere to display all my Falcon knight minifigs

  • @BDD_Builds
    @BDD_Builds 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I did not buy one of these because of the high price point and lack of exclusive figures or new parts. But that being said, I'm very glad that it sold out so quickly. LEGO needs to know just how big of a castle market there really is.

  • @octav1600
    @octav1600 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I am in full agreement with the price being too high (however someone did say the more sets Lego makes and sells, the better it is for them - so this having a limited run may have been the reason for the high price). I have 5 Lion Knights Castles, will get only one of this (I like it, but I prefer getting the better deal to make a lot of different castles out of it).
    I do have a point to make about it being defensible or not. I think the Portcullis opens up and you have to go through the gatehouse and under it, then over the bridge to get into the rest of the castle. Presuming we have (or imagine we have) murder holes there, the enemy can't station tehre. The stables seem to be there as well, with direct access before the drawbridge, however it's a nice design overall.

    • @BB2O2
      @BB2O2  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for sharing! I agree with you that you'd have to go through the portcullis to get to the bridge but once the attacks have breached it they can bring down the rest of the structure from the inside. The defenders would have to sally out from the drawbridge to stop them.

    • @octav1600
      @octav1600 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BB2O2 Or have murder holes to drop rocks / arrows

  • @Alex_G_M
    @Alex_G_M 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    In addition to the Lion Knight’s Castle and the upcoming Medieval Square there’s also the Lego IDEAS Dungeons & Dragons-set coming out this year. The IDEAS-submission looked sick, so here’s hoping the finished product doesn’t end up changing too much!
    Anyway, I hope more people agree with you on this fortress; if nothing else it raises my chances of getting one on Wednesday!🤓

    • @DAAAKAAAVAAA
      @DAAAKAAAVAAA 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      God I hope so! Been looking forward to the dnd set for a while

  • @neilrusling-je6zo
    @neilrusling-je6zo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wish they would exclude any castles because we have a great castle and one is all you need. Trains on the other hand are unlimited, you can have 10 trains and still need more, so the bricklink programme should be just modulars and trains because we need buildings and trains and only one castle.

  • @romankristofic3208
    @romankristofic3208 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In fact, we are already quite spoiled, because we live in a time when lego released the top castle sets of the entire history of lego. The lion knight castle is definitely the best set lego has ever produced, then we had the amazing blacksmith medieval, a pretty decent 3in1 castle. If we didn't have all the amazing castle sets here - this set would be special, for those who don't have the old castle sets.

  • @TEUTONIC__ORDER699
    @TEUTONIC__ORDER699 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Will this set come out later this year?

    • @DAAAKAAAVAAA
      @DAAAKAAAVAAA 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The pre-order is tomorrow and it comes out in June or July. It likely will sell out in the next few days, if not tomorrow so buy it before you have to buy it scalped

  • @Dreadwolf3155
    @Dreadwolf3155 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    with this, the new village, and the D&D set there are lots of big castle sets comming up! THis is cause for rejoicing; however, i do hope it does not lead to intratheme competition that holds overall slaes down and leads TLG to conclude castle won't sell! Given the limited quantity of this set i hope we'll be fine but....

  • @Heddrick
    @Heddrick 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wouldn't be mad if this showed up on Aliexpress.

  • @DUNDOM5
    @DUNDOM5 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Its 2 expensive imo. Build is nothing special, interior is sparse and there is no king minifig.

    • @sauronmrc13
      @sauronmrc13 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And no exclusive figs or printed parts. I’m gonna wait for the medieval village set.

    • @TheIGO12
      @TheIGO12 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@sauronmrc13What do you mean with medieval village?

    • @Minh7666xyz
      @Minh7666xyz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@TheIGO12 there are a leak about an upcoming medival town/village set

    • @arcturionblade1077
      @arcturionblade1077 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@TheIGO12Medieval Town Square. Photos of it just got leaked, and there are preview videos of it too (well, the prototype was sent to a LAN -- Lego Ambassador Network -- member to make a promo video for it).

  • @JScottGaribay
    @JScottGaribay 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video. Thank you very much. I appreciate your transparency and I definitely understand being frugal.

    • @BB2O2
      @BB2O2  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you for watching!

  • @bricks_4_you
    @bricks_4_you 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    From the set possibilities I will be trying to get the General Store due to my love of the red dead redemption series. I personally love these bricklink designer program sets and buying and parting out mocs in general. I'm glad these sets will have more available instead of the much more limited numbers of the pass. Missed out on the saloon and safe and am sad about that.

  • @edutemoche5369
    @edutemoche5369 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    LEGO is getting crazy with its prices.Its a toy, it can 't cost more than a TV or laptop. We all are getting rip off, its a toy that acumulates dust.I love LEGO but we need to be more smart and make good choices.

  • @beevict9537
    @beevict9537 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Explosives huh??

    • @BB2O2
      @BB2O2  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yessir. Boom

  • @bdonaghu
    @bdonaghu 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I completely agree with you. The set looks awesome, but I could just piece it together with my collection.

  • @finalsecretofchrono1339
    @finalsecretofchrono1339 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's a bit more unique than the Lion's castle, but it's too early in the year to dip that deep into the lego budget. I want to see what else is on the horizon .

  • @an8790
    @an8790 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If it only came with a few printed exclusive pieces (one or two flags???), TWICE the ammount of minifigures (along with some new heads, torsos, hair) and some thoughtful interior decoration I think it would be a completely different set. I dont think thats asking for much.
    Now it just feels like a huge pick a brick order with a box and instructions. Beautiful on the outside, yes, but lacking. Im sure that people that have the variety and bulk of parts needed to custom this will be all over it.

  • @jeroenvkr7503
    @jeroenvkr7503 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just buy two of them. Sell one for 800 USD and you got your not so flawless but awesome looking set for free.

  • @Shozimus
    @Shozimus 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yea great but its ubobtanium. Unless you are willing to pay q grand for it .... Hope that Lego will revive the proper 90 theme castle series.

  • @Nightlordbuilds
    @Nightlordbuilds 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I could maybe design a better castle but I don't know if people really like my designs.

  • @MightyThorngren
    @MightyThorngren 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So did you get it?!

  • @Hyside14
    @Hyside14 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm a huge castle fan and this is just simply too expensive. It shouldn't have tried to compete with the Lions' Knight Castle because it will lose every time.

  • @TonyMontanaDS
    @TonyMontanaDS 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm buying it because if I part it out, it will cost almost the same or even more when you add shipping. Also, they didn't have explosives back then.

    • @aoetje474
      @aoetje474 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you can set fire still, they did that to destroy towers by setting fire underneath, besides, there is a staircase from stables leading to the rest of the castle...blunder

  • @prophetofbeans6781
    @prophetofbeans6781 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It sure is purdy... and it sure as hell is out of my price range

  • @paybrodersen488
    @paybrodersen488 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a Hype nice Set but 380 bucks??!?!

  • @LockeNL
    @LockeNL 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sold out in 2 hours.

  • @hanzocloud
    @hanzocloud 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It looks too similar to lions knights castle, and doesn’t look as nice so I’ll give it a pass. Waiting for series 3’s Forest Stronghold which looks a lot cleaner

    • @kaltech04
      @kaltech04 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My only complaint about the forest stronghold is that the back and one side will always be open cross sections. I guess that's not the end of the world, but I like them to look complete and enclosed from all sides when possible.

  • @SMac86
    @SMac86 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Um, the Lions Castle actually has caverns under it that lead directly into the castle...😂 And you can get in and out of the prison... Basically castles are designed to delay and stall an enemy, no fortress is beyond defeat if left without support.

    • @myronwilde491
      @myronwilde491 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Castles really have those. Secret ways in and out for womanizing but also covert things and emergency escape. They tend to 1) be secret and 2) be extremely defensible. Like some thin stairway on a ledge, you're getting one soldier up at a time, at most, with a door easily reinforced. The "prison escapes" are just for fun. Way more whimsical than oubliettes.

    • @SMac86
      @SMac86 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @myronwilde491 Did you watch the review? He was concerned about the enemy being under the castle. I pointed out that feature is in the Lion Castle as well. Oh and BTW the carverns are inhabited by the forest men as a way in and out, not used by the Castle inhabitants.

  • @justcoll3ct
    @justcoll3ct 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think because of all the castle stuff coming out this year, this set will be more valuable. I think people will want all things castle. But that me, im definitely buying

    • @rogertoaster9385
      @rogertoaster9385 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you're delusional, the new sets will devalue this given how overpriced and unexceptional it is

    • @justcoll3ct
      @justcoll3ct 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @rogertoaster9385 ok cool then. This will never be below retail and there will always people people who want to have this next to the lion knights castle because they go together very well. There's a reason it sold out first, people like castles. But hey, don't buy it then

  • @8Smoker8
    @8Smoker8 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Too expensive, not enough minis nor interior detail.

  • @Nightlordbuilds
    @Nightlordbuilds 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I will not be purchasing it because it's sold out

  • @Bill-mw7sh
    @Bill-mw7sh 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude are you insane? Do you like think these legos are real life?
    Defendable? Lmao .. if you don’t like the set then frig that set. Defendable? … hahahahH wait ? What? Defendable.

    • @BB2O2
      @BB2O2  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Take a look at the 2022 castle - where the designers took the utmost care to make sure it was defensible - and then get back to me : )

    • @Bill-mw7sh
      @Bill-mw7sh 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BB2O2 it’s a prop toy. It’s not a military like martial structure for “defense” it’s a toy. Like what are you talking about. Do you want your Lego card to do 60mph or your technic to fly. What are you going on about? Weird as hell bro. lol

    • @BB2O2
      @BB2O2  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Bill-mw7sh It's a $400 "toy" with 18+ on the box, so yeah, if I'm paying that much I'm going to want some realism. You're free to spend your money on whatever you like

    • @Bill-mw7sh
      @Bill-mw7sh 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BB2O2 and the Lego cars don’t have 3 gears and don’t do 60mph. Yea you mentioned a lot of castles bro not just 400$. I think you need a little break from Lego bro. Defendable… it’s just such an insane statement

  • @lucasBricks1234
    @lucasBricks1234 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    first comment

    • @BB2O2
      @BB2O2  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hero

  • @PlazDreamweaver
    @PlazDreamweaver 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ngl, I think this set is butt ugly. No color nor texture cohesion-way too many of both and neither are even remotely trying to be balanced. I'm surprised the designers at Lego didn't force some changes because this set looks too juvenile. And for $380? Hard skip.