The Blacksmith's Shop is just too big for its own good.

@phillipbooth5158

4 ай бұрын

As a standalone set I think it's great but next to the others it does seem out of scale.

@magnuslauglo5356

4 ай бұрын

@@phillipbooth5158 It is a beautiful standalone set, but the roof tiles are dreadful and the upstairs looks a little fancy for a blacksmith. I think they could have made it a little smaller and cheaper and made it scale better with other minifig buildings and castles. It's just a little too ambitious for its own good.

@phillipbooth5158

4 ай бұрын

@@magnuslauglo5356 To each their own. I really like everything about this set, including the blue tiles. The Blacksmith set came in early 2021, well before the Lion Knights Castle (and Medieval Town Square) had been designed. The Lion Knights Castle was the result of a fan vote LEGO held to see what theme fans would want as a part of their 90th anniversary in 2022. I think scaling will be considered more now that the Castle theme seems to have made a strong return.

@trs8696

4 ай бұрын

agreed, it doesn't fit with the other two

@magnuslauglo5356

4 ай бұрын

@@phillipbooth5158 that's a good point re the fact that the Blacksmith's shop came out first. I almost wonder if the best way to display it with the more recent sets is to display the second floor and the roof floor separately as noe building and build a separate roof for the basement. It all depends on how much you want to mod existing sets.

Analyzing sets on “crossover appeal” is a very helpful and unique idea

Use a little forced perspective- Elevate the castle by placing it on a platform a couple inches tall, then place the other sets in the foreground, in front of the castle, coming towards the onlooker- The blacksmith shop should be closest to the viewer, the castle in the distance and higher, the market can go in the center, split up to create a sort of road to the castle with the market buildings on both sides, magistos workshop and forest hideout can go further out to the left and or right, behind the market buildings

Thanks for this, it's great to see these sets close together!

Thank you for this comparison was waiting to see how they all look side to side

It would have been nice to see the viking village next to everything

@rolout2233

4 ай бұрын

Viking village is nice. Recommend it especially if you can get it discounted

I have the 3in1 castle. Plus lots of 80s castle stuff. I've made transition walls, 8 studs long with two different connectors and a bending part each. One side will connect at the top like the 3in1 does, while the opposite side will connect at the bottom with the classic sets. To help with geometry, both connecting walls are able to bend.

As someone who mostly builds mocs based off sets, I find myself seeing that almost every set is made to be bought twice. In my eyes at least lol then everything can be smoothed out and made to fit from there in your own way

@prons_gaming5083

4 ай бұрын

This is one reason I like the modular buildings so much, because they feel like a complete thing(to me, at least). Like they're full buildings that are closed off around all sides and don't have huge gaping holes in the outer walls

Why dont you have the 3-1 medieval castle there? It scales well with the everything beside the blacksmilth. Everyone seems to forget about the 3-1 castle. The castle that is literally like the old school castles, being modular.

thank you for making this video! this these are exactly the things i think about when buying those sets. my dream is to place the town square in front of the lion knight castle and surround both sets with a matching wall/gatehouse/docks. but until that day when i have such space, they will remain in their boxes.

Great comparison! Well done

Like others have said - blacksmith scale doesn't fit. BUT I'm sure the blacksmith set could be reduced down to match scale and add stables, accessory build, etc instead

Can’t wait to see the results of the display

An "easy" solution to make the castle look "bigger" is to get a bunch of burps and make a platform to elevate the castle up above the rest of the buildings. Of course, that costs money for both the burps, the plates, supporting bricks underneath a large elevated base, along with the necessary pieces for a ramp up to the top.

@wyattjaron8112

4 ай бұрын

I actually did this because my lego room has a bar style wrap around table mouted to a half wall. My castle sits on the half wall. Then I made a bunch of terrain and a stone staircase. Below is the kingdom with the blacksmith

You can (and should) raise the castle. That may compensate for the scale discrepancy. Castles were usually built on an elevation so they’d have a 360 view over their territories

@PeteTheGeek196

3 ай бұрын

Raising my creator 3-in-1 Medieval Castle (31120) by 3 bricks made a huge difference.

Thanks very much for uploading this comparative video of the new LEGO Medieval Town Square to the Medieval Blacksmith and the Lion Knights' Castle. I was concerned mainly with how big the new Medieval Town Square was but many of the other review videos kept comparing it to the Lion Knights' Castle which I did not have. Now, I realize that the Medieval Town Square appears to be somewhat small to fit nicely with my LEGO modular buildings.

I had bought 2 sets of the 31120 castle when they came out. I made a raised platform using rock elements and plates which elevated the castle about 6 bricks above the table. I added a lot of my own stock of bricks and other castle pieces and made a massive castle that is about a 48 x 48 baseplate in area. It makes a massive statement and makes the other Medieval buildings look much more to scale. Perhaps raising the Lion Knoghts Castle would benefit from a similar raised design?

Layer starting with castle then village than black falcon fortress then blacksmith, then add details like mountains and woods

My set up is far from complete but to make the scale and design of things feel right I have a certain set up. Castle is the centerpiece at the center and back. Town is a little ways down from the castle with both buildings facing each other with the castle in the middle off in the distance and the little tree next to the inn. Medieval Blacksmith is a ways away in the "Black Forest" as a midway point between the Forestmen Hideout and the town. Majisto's Magical Workshop is deep in the woods so he could practice his magic in peace.

I broke down the medieval blacksmith into 3 smaller houses, two small shops, a tree and a well. Yeah the colours don't match with 10332 buuut in my vision they are the "rich" side of my medieval town

Great video, i was thinking about how these sets compare displayed together, and now i know. I was also considering how the new hagrid's hut from harry potter would fit in 🤔

based tapestry maker what a true hero saving the town from that evil tax collector

This is pretty much how my castle/village set looks, I did add a harbor with the imperial soldier sets (does take up a decent amount of space)

Amazing :D

I like to think of the Lion knights castle as more of a keep than a full castle… in that respect, you could imagine the village and blacksmith outside of the keep, and all of them surrounded by an outer wall

I hope someone would make a rebrickable instruction to reduce the Balcksmith one to a scale that goes with the mideival town square and the castle.

Great video.

Спасибо за обзор, ставлю лайк!🙂👍

Thanks for this video. I was on the fence on whether to spend $900+ (if you include the Viking Village) and seeing them side by side and the scale differences has helped me a lot. Being as OCD as I am, its probably a pass for me. They definitely look great as individual sets, but if i bought everything that looked great, I’d be broke!

I have all of these in the box and so happy to see this comparison! Thank you so much. 😁👍

I really hope Lego continues to drip out more Castle sets (maybe one every six or twelve months or so). Some sort of keep for the Black Falcons (though the Bricklink exclusive set largely fills this role), more Wolfpack (I would love a remake of the Wolfpack Tower), and maybe even some Dragon Knights or Black Knights (one of the letters in the Town Square is from one of them). I do like the GWP sets for Castle, but I would much rather we got more robust sets.

@Andrew-ww1hz

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, even though the Bricklink Mountain Fortress is nice, it seems too exclusive too be "the" Black Falcon set for Lego. Technically we also have the 3-in-1 Creator Castle for them too, but that seems a bit unpolished to be part of the main series.

@jacobelmslie3862

4 ай бұрын

the mountain fortress should have been a public release... its well designed enough and is a shame it is now a collectors thing people want 2x the value for that was already on verge of too much. @@Andrew-ww1hz

I can;t wait to see an update of this with the Dungeons and Dragons and Rivendell sets.

@Master-it8eo

3 ай бұрын

He may do video about dragon and dungeon set but he will not combine again 😅😅😂

Would have liked to see the creator castle included

Needs to be renamed to Blacksmith’s Mansion

The Lions Knight Castle is more like a castle " Keep" or center of the castle. You would have a Keep, Then walls. The town would be around the Castle.

I agree completely with a previous comment, I absolutely love the BS Shop, it’s one of my favourite buildings, but its was to large to add in a Medieval village. Why does Lego not think about scale when building themes?

@jacobelmslie3862

4 ай бұрын

I suspect since this was an Ideas submission was not part of the plan, or the main castle theme was brought in afterwards (blacksmith being a test market test) but had to scale everything else down to make a reasonable castle. Everything else should follow the same scale now, unless they want to make a UCS 1000$ castle...

Podrian estar juntos jugando con las perspectivas. En una mesa muy grande yo pondria el castillo sobre una colina y los demas edificios abajo bien distribuidos,

I still don't get the blacksmith roof choice. Not to mention the size of it.

My landlord will understand...

oohh ! finally ! all together ! i want to see medieval sets ( other years also ) together in a wood \ forest and no mocs again ! again ! more ! more ! another ! another ! :-)

Clearly the Blacksmith Shop was not planned to be integrated with any other Castle themed set, probably because it was released earlier, and any castle done at that scale would be too massive. Regarding the comparison with the town square, I think maybe we need to stop thinking about the Lion knight's Castle as a massive fortress, and more like a small fortification :D The way I see them look good together on a display is playing with perspective, placing the Castle in the top of a hill, more to the back, and the town square below and more to the front. I believe that would work the best. Anyway, great video, very well thought off!

Everyone always seems to forget the 3-in-1 creator castle set, lol

love it!

I think te market square lacks the closed buildings. I am not fond of the open backsides. To repair it, maybe buy 2 copies of it and make 5 of 6 stand alone buildings to company the Blacksmith. The blacksmith should be scales down a bit. Maybe make 2 buildings from it. And in addition i recommand the house from the 3 in 1 pirateship as an extra pub or maybe the inn. But for now i wait for a better moment to buy the market square. I am not sure of i would buy the caslte. It looks great. But i own already some old ones. So it is more like lacking funds and prioritying what i like more.

where is the magistos workshop?

@buildingtogether4171

4 ай бұрын

It was a gift with purchase. You can see it here: www.lego.com/en-us/product/majisto-s-magical-workshop-40601

After that, I think that I'll stick to collecting kingdoms and building mocs with a exception of the blacksmith displayed elsewhere...

The comparison of the battlements to town buildings seems small but it's not far from historical realism. Most castles were not enormous. Key is to build up the terrain higher and site it far enough away from civilian life.

I would invest in bricks to put the castle up on a hill to make it SEEM larger than the other buildings, even if that is not the case in reality.

The blacksmith is rich, very rich.

That's why the "castle" should be scaled down to a fortress or a stronghold, and called as such...

WHERE IS MAJITOS HOUSE?

I reimagined the Blacksmith as the King's personal quarters on its own hillside😅. Love the set but it's way out of scale compared to the entire line.

Where is Snow White and Hocus pocus?

@buildingtogether4171

4 ай бұрын

Those could fit in with the theme, but aren't castle sets per se. The Hocus Pocus house is from a different time and location. Also, we do not own either of those two sets. We are hoping to get the Snow White house at some point though!

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Three different scales. Not compatible. Treat each as standalone.

They are just out if scale to each outher , blacksmith is modular scale , catle is minifig scale , and market is too big for the castle and too small for the blackamith

Everyone knows the blacksmith isn’t the same scale as the (too small) castle so why even bother with this video

@newview1998

4 ай бұрын

Because everyone is doing it XD Why bother with new content ideas and saying something fresh

My biggest complaint with the set was I wasn’t able to close the cheese shop all the way but after watching this video I realized that built it wrong

I think the medieval market village is very bland and doesn't really fit the medieval theme aesthetically, it really is the weakest set of the premium line and more of a 3 in 1 line

@freetowatchchannel9946

4 ай бұрын

"town square" i mean not the market village town square 5/10 market village 9.5/10

@bricksbyficks6448

4 ай бұрын

I think the medieval town square looks amazing and the colors are absolutely perfect. The style is very similar to the Lion Knights castle and I think they work great together. Also 3 in 1 means there are 3 different builds using the same parts. So you can't build all 3 at the same time unless you purchased 3 sets. So it doesn't work for the 3 in 1 line

I think the town square is a horrible set - muted color palette; boring buildings; lazy overall design. It's just a weak effort.

Elevate the castle, problem solved

@Luigi82932

2 ай бұрын

Bc its that easy

I really want this to pair with my Lions castle. I do feel it is a slight drop in value to what you get for the Lion Castle for the price. Still a great addition for the Lion nation.