Growing up, the Castles theme was one of my favorites. The first set that I remember getting was the Black Falcons’ Fortress (6074). Among my favorite sets growing up were Majisto’s Magical Workshop (6048), and the Night Lord’s Castle (6097). While none of those make today’s list, I thought it would be fun to take a look at the 10 biggest LEGO®  classic Castle sets ever produced. For the purposes of this list, I am only looking at the original LEGO® themes like Castles, Knights Kingdom, and Kingdoms. I will not be looking at licensed themes like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.

Most of the images in this article were pulled from perusing old instruction manuals on the lego.com website. However, not all sets were available via that route. For set 375 and 6090, the images came from random eBay auctions.

Set #: 6090 Brick Count: 764 Minifigures: 11 Year: 1995 Fun Facts: This castle featured an exclusive raised baseplate not seen in any other set.

Set #: 375 Brick Count: 767 Minifigures: 14 Year: 1978 Of Interest: This was the first LEGO® castle ever produced. It came with yellow bricks because, at the time, the LEGO® Group thought that providing grey bricks would promote children building guns.

Set #: 7097 Brick Count: 844 Minifigures: 10 Year: 2009 Of Interest: This is the only LEGO® castle produced that was not manned by some faction of Minifigure knights. Instead, it was run by trolls!

Set #: 10176 Brick Count: 869 Minifigures: 12 Year: 2006 Fun Facts: This castle features a basement blacksmith’s shop and torture chamber! Oddly, none of the Minifigures feature any body printing.

Set #: 7946 Brick Count: 933 Minifigures: 8 Year: 2010 Fun Facts: This was a modular castle in which you could easily rearrange the walls and towers into different layouts.

Set #: 8877 Brick Count: 967 Minifigures: 9 Year: 2005 Fun Facts: Unlike many other castle sets produced, this one was home to villain!

Set #: 7094 Brick Count: 973 Minifigures: 10 Year: 2007 Fun Facts: The basic layout for this set was influenced by the original LEGO® castle produced in 1978 (set #375). The castle’s crest even bears similarities!

Set #: 70404 Brick Count: 996 Minifigures: 7 Year: 2013 Of Interest: While not the biggest set in the castle-themed sets, this is actually the largest castle ever produced for a classic knights related theme. It can also be joined to The Gatehouse Raid (70402) to make it even bigger.

Set #: 10223 Brick Count: 2012 Minifigures: 9 Year: 2012 Fun Facts: This set was designed so that if you bought two, they would fit together perfectly back to back.

Set #: 10193 Brick Count: 1601 Minifigures: 8 Year: 2009 Fun Facts: In addition to being the largest classic castle set ever produced, the Medieval Market Village also included the first roasted turkey and cow.

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Until next time,

-Tom