LEGO explains how Medieval Town Square fits with Lion Knights’ Castle

08/02/202409/02/2024 Chris Wharfe 1792 Views 1 Comment

The lead designer behind LEGO Icons 10332 Medieval Town Square has explained exactly how the new retro set is supposed to fit in with 2022’s 10305 Lion Knights’ Castle.

Eagle-eyed fans will have already spotted that the guard tower in the newly-revealed 10332 Medieval Town Square matches the aesthetic of 10305 Lion Knights’ Castle pretty much perfectly, and is even topped off with a moustachioed Lion Knight. That suggests there’s some common ground between these two sets – and that they’re meant to be displayed together.

“From day one, I wanted it to be the town either in the castle or next to the castle,” confirms LEGO Senior Designer Henrik Rubin Saaby. “That’s also why we have some of the castle built in here, and the same guard and so on. So it was my personal [feeling] that it should belong to 10305 Lion Knights’ Castle so you could expand your universe.”

That said, if you’ve been scouring images of the set looking for connection points that might allow it to hook quite literally to 10305 Lion Knights’ Castle, you can stop your search here: there are none. Henrik explained to Brick Fanatics that the set is designed to accompany the castle, but not connect to it.

“You can rearrange it how you want,” he explains. “There’s a front and back to it. But it’s not something you attach to the castle. It’s something you have next to the castle or around the castle, or however you want to do it. But it’s meant to be a single model.”

It makes sense when you think about it: why would these comparatively small buildings connect to the side of a huge castle? Instead, the design team has taken the more logical approach of splitting 10332 Medieval Town Square apart from its companion, so that they sit best side by side in a wider medieval layout.

The bigger picture becomes even clearer when Henrik reveals that the reception to 10305 Lion Knights’ Castle wasn’t the only driving force behind designing 10332 Medieval Town Square: the focus was also on releasing a successor to 2009’s 10193 Medieval Market Village, which brought civilian life to the Fantasy Era range for the first time.

“We wanted to revive [10193 Medieval Market Village] and make a new version with new elements [that was] bigger than the old one,” he says.

10332 Medieval Town Square launches March 1 for LEGO Insiders, while 10305 Lion Knights’ Castle is available now.

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I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.