Why has Kingdoms replaced Castle on Lego.com?

[Jebediahs]

It is rumoured that an elf minifigure is coming up in Collectible Minifig Series vol. 3.

Yes please.

With all the specialty heads in the Atlantis and Space Police lines and such,they could have at least given us a minotaur or illithid or something before going kaput.

Jeb

[Artanis I]

It's not like it was called Castle all the way up until this year, and now they changed it to Kingdoms.

The thing is... the theme was known as "Castle" but not officially stated as such on the box. The boxes in the 80s said "Legoland", & in the 90s "System" and I don't have any sets from the first Knights Kingdom, but the sets known as "Knights Kingdom II" (jelly bean knights) say "Knights Kingdom" on the box. KKII was never officially named "Castle" at all, it was just implied. Next released was what we call the "Fantasy Era" but the official name was actually "Castle" ... the FIRST TIME EVER that "Castle" was written on the box. I will make an assumption and say that the "Castle" section of Lego.com only existed for what we call "Fantasy Era" and that (if it existed) before that, it was "Knights Kingdom". You will see that there is no "Space" section on the site, but there is a "Space Police" section - it is the fans that are calling the new Space Police "SP3" & "Space".

Now, the new era of castle Lego is officially called "Kingdoms" therefore the section of Lego.com relevant is called "Kingdoms", the previous era (called "Castle") is discontinued and therefore no longer on the website. Simple. The confusion comes from not knowing the difference between OFFICIAL NAMES of a line of sets and common names, given by either fans or catalogues (& different countries' catalogues usually have contradicting information).

[dragunov]

That doesn't make me happy... up until now I only wanted one or two of each of the collectibles... if they do elves, they'll be like the Spartans are now... probably even worse.

I wish they just did Fantasy one more year to do elves before moving on to Kingdoms. Just my two cents.

Still... I don't get the OP either. Castle/Fantasy has reached end-of-life, a new theme emerges... it's the cycle of li... uh, I mean, the cycle of LEGO themes.

The circle of lego themes, it moves us forward! Any way could have done one or two more years for another two biengs to join the fantasy line, elves and uh,... I don't know.

[B.C.]

Evolution of the Lego Castle themes will continue whether we like it or not. New themes mean a buying frenzy to collect the newest sets. I'm just irritated that I got on the Fantasy Era bandwagon a bit late and missed a few of the early sets. I have about half of the Fantasy Era stuff, I just wish I had more. I remember seeing the Skeleton Tower set on markdown at Target a few years back and passed on it, now you can't touch that set for less than double retail.

For what it is worth, I'm not really feeling the new Kingdoms line. I'll save my money and look for the old sets.

[Hoboman]

I guess the point was they could have just made Kingdoms a subtheme of Castle (as it really is).

I would not be too upset. Given time this will happen anyway. The fan base will force this as people speak of it that way. Look at Bricklinks for example. They already classify it as a Castle sub theme.

Let TLG have their marketing fun for now and then later you will have your way.