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Castle Bag 10

Lion Knight’s Castle Bag 10/26: We add half a child’s bedroom on the second floor above the music room and also a section of wall with a bit of tiled roof on the first floor above the hideout. The pile of yellow blocks is an Easter egg for the very first castle set from 1978.

Interior view of LEGO castle with a bedroom with a toy castle set above a music room. To the left is a wall with a window and a bit of tiled roof. Exterior view of LEGO castle showing white plaster walls trimmed with black wood.

Castle Bag 9

Lion Knight’s Castle Bag 9/26: We finish the first floor of the mill section, which holds a banquet table, and then attach it to the other two sections. The castle now opens on hinges like a dollhouse and closes with a satisfying click.

Interior view of LEGO castle section showing a banquet table, two chairs, three shields hung on the wall, and a blue and yellow banner. Exterior view of LEGO castle section showing windows with flower boxes set in a vine-covered wall. Exterior view of LEGO castle closed on its hinges. The two previous photos showed it in the open position.

Castle Bag 8

Lion Knight’s Castle Bag 8/26: We build a water wheel that uses gearing to turn the mill stone as it spins. We finish off the ground floor level. A birds nest with an egg up on a shelf in the storage room is a whimsical touch.

Interior view of LEGO castle section with a water wheel connected to a millstone. A storage system and hopper feeds grain to the millstone. A sack (containing flour?) sits on the floor. A storage room has a baguette stuffed into a barrel and a shelf with a bird's nest. Exterior view of LEGO castle section showing a water wheel over a flowing stream on the right, a single low barred window in the center, and a rocky outcropping on the left.

Castle Bag 7

Lion Knight’s Castle Bag 7/26: We start our third section with what appears to be the beginnings of a water mill.

Interior view of LEGO castle section with a mill stone and a closet containing a barrel holding a baguette. Exterior view of LEGO castle showing gray stone walls, a bit of greenery on the left, and a flowing stream with a few rapids on the right.

Blacktron Cruiser Source

The original set upon which that Blacktron Cruiser is based: Invader (6894) from 1987.

LEGO Blacktron spaceship in black with yellow highlights, transparent yellow windows, and four transparent red fins on the tail.

Blacktron Cruiser

LEGO definitely knows how to part me from my money. This is a remake of a 1987 Blacktron set, the Invader. Blacktron is one of my favorite Space factions (after Classic, naturally).

Box for LEGO set 40580: Blacktron Cruiser with 356 pieces

Castle Bag 6

Lion Knight’s Castle, Bag 6/26: We roof off the music room and add crenellations to the outer wall. The arrow slits were satisfying to build as is the way the angled sections fit together. Comes with a lady/nun and a lion knight who is also a woman.

Interior view of castle with a fully roofed in music room in which there is a lady with her head covered in a white cloth. Is she a nun? Nearby stands a woman knight carrying a sword and shield. Her shield and tabard both display a lion sigil.

Castle Bag 5

Lion Knight’s Castle, Bag 5/26: The two sections are attached and a music room with a fireplace is built above the kitchen. Above the hideout you get some straw to obscure the trap door and some wooden stairs.

Section of a LEGO castle showing a partially constructed music room containing a harpsichord and a fireplace.

Castle Bag 4

Lion Knight’s Castle, Bag 4/26: Secret dungeon hideout with a forestman minifig with a lute. The hideout has a table with a pair of stools, a map, some weapons, and of course something to drink. There’s a ladder up to a trapdoor in the ceiling.

Small LEGO cave with a table, stools, candles, goblet and a map. An archery target hangs on the wall and there are vines along the ceiling.

Castle Bags 2-3

Lion Knight’s Castle, Bags 2-3/26: the kitchen complete with a cook minifig. I really enjoyed building the section of wall that’s pushed out at a 45° angle relative to the rest of the structure. Looks like this will form a turret or tower.

LEGO kitchen with a cook, fireplace, various utensils and food stuffs Exterior view of LEGO castle wall with some greenery. Part of the wall is pushed out at a 45° angle to the rest of the wall, perhaps to form a tower.