Medieval Market Village remake reaches 10,000 votes on LEGO Ideas

A remake of 2009’s 10193 Medieval Market Village has finally reached the review stage on LEGO Ideas, almost two years after it was first uploaded.

It’s been a slow but steady journey for Commander Brick’s The Market Village, which takes clear inspiration from one of the LEGO Group’s greatest Castle sets to date. The project page doesn’t explicitly mention 10193 Medieval Market Village, a direct-to-consumer set released at the tail end of Castle’s Fantasy Era subtheme, but it shares all the same trappings.

Two of its three buildings use the same colour scheme as the original set, for example, while both models feature a tree, market stall and horse with cart. Commander Brick’s version is more detailed in pretty much every regard, however, and includes a base of terrain to tie the entire scene together.

Originally uploaded to LEGO Ideas in May 2020, the build has taken a little longer than most successful Castle-inspired projects to reach the review stage, but will now get a fair shake from the review board nonetheless. Its chances feel fairly remote, however, given similar concepts were rejected in the second 2020 review and first 2021 review.

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There are now 26 projects in the first 2022 review, which is growing at an alarming pace – and could well come close to toppling the first 2021 review’s record 57 projects in a single round by the time May rolls around, and the qualifying window closes. Here’s the full list of builds currently in contention this time round:

The Market Village
Aladdin: Friend Like Me (30th Anniversary Special)
Gilmore Girls House
The Castle of Brickwood Forest
Lancia Delta Integrale 16v Rally Car (1990)
The Opera
Polaroid OneStep SX-70
Hanging Flowers
Wuppertaler Schwebebahn/Wuppertal Suspension Railway
Adventure Box
Sherlock Holmes – 221B Baker Street
Boeing 747 Cockpit
LEGO Insects
The Polar Express 20th Anniversary
Mach Patrol
Santa’s Cottage
The Library
Tales of the Space Age
The Kit-Cat Clock
Steampunk Airship
Mini City Diorama: London with Underground Train Station!
The LEGO Toilet
LEGO Koala
Wild West Mine
The Legendary Concorde
The Forestmen Secret Inn

Castle is currently represented in the LEGO portfolio through both Creator 3-in-1’s 31120 Medieval Castle and a previous LEGO Ideas set, 21325 Medieval Blacksmith.

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Chris Wharfe

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.

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