Castle in the Forest

Hi everyone! 

We made it! Castle in the Forest is now a real set. I really want to thank you all! Thank you so so much! 

This is really my child dream coming true. But even more, this is a success that went beyond anyone's imagination. Thanks to you all, trying to connect at the same time to purchase your set, a glitch made it possible to preorder 10000 copies of the castle in the forest instead of 5000. 

I'm really happy that this could lead to some positive changes to the program. Not only for myself, but also for the other designers, and for the fans who now have received more opportunities to be able to get one of their favorite sets. 

I especially want to give thanks to all the members of the BrickLink team. You are just a small team compared to the LEGO Group yet you have done a huge and incredible job for us all. It's really not easy to launch such a big project and to work with so many designers and on so many projects at the same time. I'm very very grateful for all your work. 

I wish you all a very good time building your set! 

Project description :

Welcome back to the middle ages with this project "the Castle in the Forest".

I'm very proud to present to you this beautiful forestmen castle. This model has almost 2000 parts and is build in three sections. Each part is inspired by one of the forestmen sets from the 90s.

The model has a lot of play features : it has a gate door that opens, a secret escape passage through a fake fire place, there is a trapdoor. Many parts open up to allow you to get inside.

There many details inside : a bed, tables, a cooking place, many candles and lots of extra weapons to defend your castle !

The model has 6 minifigures : 3 forestmen, 1 peasant and 2 black falcon knights.

There are also some animals included : an owl, a horse, a bird and a frog.

Check out my YouTube video to see how everything works !

This model will come with some stickers. One of the stickers is placed inside the castle and it represents a painting of a forestmen with his bow. This is an homage to my first and favourite forestmen minifigure. On his face I added a small beard like I have myself.

I really want to give a big thanks to Nick Royer, the designer of the "space troopers" project. Nick has done an awesome job helping me with the designs of the stickers. Don't forget to check out his project !

About the designer :

I'm Daniel VAN ZONNEVELD, I am 37 years old and I live in France.

Around the age of 4 I discovered the Lego bricks and very quickly it became my favourite hobby.

In the early 90s I got a small set with 6 castle minifigures including my first 2 forestmen. When I got those I knew I had found my favourite minifigures. Especially the forestmen with the yellow plume who had a bow and arrow.

I wanted to find more forestmen sets, but at that time these sets were already retiring. I could get my hands on only one other forestmen set. Since then, I hoped that the forestmen theme would one day return...

A dream I didn’t really expect to come true. But not only it is really coming true, I'm designing the set myself to make it come true. That's just beyond words !