>>9947758>https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-icons-10305-lion-knights-castle-bigger/>“We looked at a lot of real castles but as soon as we started to look closely, we were like, ‘Okay, these things are enormous!’” LEGO designer Mike Psiaki told Metro. “The proportions of the courtyards and the tunnels, the staircases, and all of that. We built some bits, like some cool spiral staircases and other bits from real castles where we were like, ‘Oh, this would be so cool to put in.’>“And then we realised this would be 90% of the model, if we wanted to include this. Real castles are just way too big. So I think that’s where we focus much more on the details of real castles that we like, and then try to figure out how do we combine those all into something that’s actually a realistic size for a LEGO model?”>Aiming for that blend of LEGO realism and actual realism ultimately meant abandoning a couple of concepts the team had previously experimented with, including additional sections of the castle.>“We had a version originally where we had the curtain wall and outer bailey and stuff to kind of expand it,” designer Milan Madge added. “It was enormous. And [we were] like, ‘Where’s anyone [going to] put this?’”>“A lot of those old castle designs, especially in England and France, they really weren’t thinking about how it would be played with as a toy,” Mike said. “We wanted to do one of those entrances where you have multiple portcullises, and you can drop them down, and we built it but were like, ‘There’s no way to play with any of this!’wtf castle bros we could have had a bigger set
