The lead designer behind LEGO Icons
Eagle-eyed fans will have already spotted that the guard tower in the newly-revealed
“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
That said, if you’ve been scouring images of the set looking for connection points that might allow it to hook quite literally to
“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
The bigger picture becomes even clearer when Henrik reveals that the reception to
“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.
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