Brickipedia News:A dream is a wish your wallet makes

by Soupperson1
July 11, 2016

The latest DTC (direct-to-consumer) 71040 The Disney Castle has been revealed. It will released on September 1, 2016, for £ 289.99/$349.99 and contains 4080 pieces and 5 minifigures, including an exclusive Tinker Bell.

The Minifigures


Daisy Duck	Donald Duck	Mickey Mouse	Minnie Mouse	Tinker Bell

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Press release

This is a description taken from LEGO.com. Please do not modify it. (visit this item's product page) Welcome to the magical Disney Castle!

Bring the magical world of Disney to your home with The Disney Castle. This highly detailed LEGO® model with over 4,000 pieces offers a rewarding build and play experience, and comes with an array of exciting Disney-themed features and functions. The intricately detailed facade and towers replicate the iconic Walt Disney World® Resort Cinderella Castle, and each accessible castle room includes special features inspired by some of Disney’s greatest animated feature films, providing endless play possibilities with the included minifigures: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck and Tinker Bell, or other characters from your collection.

Includes 5 minifigures: Mickey Mouse with a tuxedo, Minnie Mouse with red dress, Donald Duck with classic outfit, Daisy Duck with pink skirt, lavender colored shoes and a bow, and Tinker Bell with wig element, skirt, wings and a magic wand.
The Disney Castle features a detailed facade with a stone bridge, clock, wide arched entrance, ornate balconies, spired towers, plus a four-story main building and a five-story, golden-spired main tower, both containing rooms with assorted Disney-inspired features and elements.
Castle main building first floor features the main hall with large arched doorway, mosaic floor tiling, ornate chandelier, suits of armor, shield-decorated walls, grandfather clock, floor-standing vase with buildable flower elements, magic carpet and a golden lamp.
Castle main building second-floor room features buildable dark-blue curtains with curtain pole, ornate buildable candelabra and rose, and glass case elements.
Castle main building third-floor room features a chest with book of spells, mop and bucket elements, and access to the main tower second-floor room.
Castle main building fourth-floor bedroom features a detailed bed with decorative golden headboard elements.
Main tower first-floor kitchen features a large redbrick-patterned stove, workbench, buildable broom and pumpkin, plus pots, pans and assorted kitchen and food elements.
Main tower second-floor room includes a spinning wheel and access to the castle main building third-floor room.
Main tower third-floor room features a chest containing brush, scissor and lock of black hair elements, plus a balcony with 2 stud shooters for a firework-display function.
Main tower fourth-floor room features a golden mirror, plus red apple and glass vase elements.
Main tower fifth-floor room features a window bench and an arched window.
Also includes 2 frogs and a golden crown element.
Remove part of the roof section to discover the glass slipper element and fairy-tale book element with printed cover.
Launch the fireworks and let the magic begin!
Combine with other LEGO® minifigure characters for endless adventures!
This set offers an age-appropriate building experience for ages 12 and over.
This set includes over 4,000 LEGO® pieces.
The Disney Castle measures over 29” (74cm) high, 17” (44cm) wide and 12” (31cm) deep.

What do you think of the set? Let us know in the comments!
Tags: 2016 Disney

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Soupperson1Legendary Brickipedian

95 months ago

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I wonder how the Disney Princess team felt about this set being green lit. :P I'd really be curious to see what a mini-doll DTC would look like.

The set looks really pretty from the outside. I would've pefered white to tan, but oh well. While I appreciate the effort for the inside, I think there's a lot of missed opportunities. I don't see why the bottom floor could've been chock full of references. The references that they did choose to feature were really limited too, why on earth only feature princess movies and Fantasia? Not many people like Brave (I personally love it, but I'm in the minority :P), Tiana doesn't have a mini doll and only Ariel has a minifigure. I do adore the prints, that story book. <3 It is weird to see that this set has hundreds of pieces less then the Ghostbusters HQ though, would they not have expanded the interior or even include some side builds?

As for the minifigures, they're all great. I don't think the heads match the Disney Parks heads, but a new mould would be pointless. I really love this version of Minnie. I like Daisy and Mickey's versions too, equally as much as their CMF counterparts. Donald feels a bit mean seeing as some people paid $4 for the exact same figure they're going to get here with no accessories... Tink looks superb I'd much rather her then about half the CMF series. It's a shame these four couldn't be in the second series or be swapped for Syndrome, Genie, Mr. Incredible...

The lack of characters seems kind of stingy just because that Ghostbusters HQ had 14 and this only has 5. There's a lot of characters who don't need moulds, the princesses, most of the princes including Beast, Gaston, Hans, Lilo, Kida (if we go really obscure) could easily use the Rockstar's hairpiece, Tarzan, practically every Incredibles character and I'm only scraping the bottom of the barrel. Bolt, Bambi, Thumper, Lady, Oliver, any of the Aristocats could've been just seen as new prints on existing moulds.

On a side note does Disney really have to go Simpsons route,with a DTC and CMF surly its popular enough for a whole wave of sets. I'd be a lot happier paying $20 for a set with a nice building Minnie, Mickey and Pluto rather than buying a bunch of overpriced blind bags and using the touch method to find the characters. Also it would probably mean we would get more characters if there was one set per franchise. :P

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BerrybrickLegendary Brickipedian

95 months ago

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This might be my favorite set of the year, though I don't know how much competition it has...I'm not a Ghostbusters fan, Hoth was a bad idea, and the Batcave is kind of eh. Brick Bank is cool though and Big Ben looks like ~~Big Ben~~ the clock tower. \_O_/

There references are fun and all of the new minifigures are good (I like this version of Mickey a lot more than the one in the series). I would have liked it to include more figures of course--like Goofy and maybe some princesses who they already have the hairpieces for (like Cinderella, Belle, Jasmine, and Ariel in a dress?) who could be released in a CMF series later on, of course, :P --but I'm not so bothered because the set is so good. That said though, that price. :P

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LegoFan4000Legendary Brickipedian

95 months ago

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Cool

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NovaHawkLegendary Brickipedian

95 months ago

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I think I like it better now. In the leaked images the colours were oversaturated and I wasn't a fan of the grey/tan colour scheme. Last time I saw the real castle it was overcast and that tan colour looked grey so I'm still trying to get used it it being two colours. Good to get some clear pics of Tinker Bell- is that a new hairpiece?

I know people are complaining about the lack of minifigures, but this is just one of those sets where it's much much more about the model than the figures just like the Super Star Destroyer, Helicarrier or the Black Tower, I don't see what the big deal is.

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