Castle

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Castle was one of the first three LEGOLAND themes (along side Town and Space). Castle began in 1978. The first set in the original LEGOLAND Castle theme was the European release of 375, Castle (aka Yellow Castle), which was also released in the United States as set 6075. There was was an earlier Weetabix promotional castle which was not system-scale.

The realm of Castle was expanded by the introduction of sub-themes based on new factions of which the first four also relate to LEGOLAND Castle:

Classic Castle 1978-1983
Black Falcons 1984-1990, 2002: named for the falcon design on the shields and livery.
Crusaders (aka Lion Knights) 1984-1992, 2001: a group of knights that are based on crusaders. Travel is a big theme in these sets. The majority of the sets are soldiers traveling, usually by horse-drawn carriage but also by boat. The Lion Knights usually wore a yellow and blue device with a lion, but sometimes, they wore a device with crossed axes.
Forestmen 1987-1990: modeled after Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men with woodland structures, bow, arrows and feathered caps.
Black Knights 1987-1993
Wolfpack 1992-1993: bandits (only three sets).
Dragon Masters 1993-1998: bad guys with dragons and a wizard.
Royal Knights 1995-1998
Dark Forest 1996: successors to Forestmen (only three sets)
Fright Knights 1997-1998
Knights' Kingdom 2000 (aka KKI): includes a background story for the fictional Kingdom of Morcia.
Knights' Kingdom 2004- 2006 (aka KKII): includes stories for four knights, large action figures, and oddly colored of armor (e.g. purple). Sometmes called the "jellybeans".
'Castle 2007 - present: also sometimes called Fantasy Castle or the Fantasy Era it features such creatures as dwarves, orcs and living skeletons as factions.

(Note: The above divisions and dates are based on Lugnet's set guide. Some subthemes are hard to classify as they are defined by the minifigs included in the sets, and some sets include figs from more than one sub-theme.)

1 Related themes
2 Future of Castle
3 Set and minifig guides
4 Castle Communities
5 External Links

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Related themes

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Ninja 1998-2000
Adventurers (some sub-themes) 1998-2003
- Amazon (1999) especially Set 5986 Amazon Ancient Ruins
- Dino Island (2000) especially Set 5987 Dino Research Compound
- Orient Expedition (2003) especially Set 7419 Dragon Fortress, Set 7418 Scorpion Palace and Set 7417 Temple of Mount Everest
Harry Potter 2001-2007
Vikings 2005-2007

Some non-system-scale themes are also related to Castle:

Belville 1995-
Duplo Castle 2004-2007

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Future of Castle

LEGO released a brand new revamped castle line 05/15/2007, Castle (2007). The new theme includes 2 factions: a human faction and a skeleton faction.

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Set and minifig guides

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Castle Communities

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External Links

There are tons and tons of amazing sites. These in no way represent the breadth of Castle builders. We have just chosen a few to get the ball rolling. Please feel free to add more.