Hi-res image of mini Disney Castle
Posted by Huw,
LEGO Stores Mexico has published a better image of the forthcoming 40478 Mini Disney Castle on its Facebook page.
No further information is provided other than it will be available 'very soon', which I will take to mean October 1st.
The image is sufficiently high resolution to be able to extract this from it:
Thanks to Robert at Promobricks for the news.
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Very cool set! Like an Architecture theme set!! Will have to get it!
Set number starts with 404 so does that mean gift with purchase?
£50 minimum...
Looks great!
@Nesquik said:
"£50 minimum..."
I read £35 somewhere.....
Looks nice, I may almost consider getting it.
Looks like the composition and even the color of the tip of the tower are different in the real-life photo from the box arts. Strange.
Got the large one already, but as a GWP this MIGHT tempt me after all.
I think this means I will have to rebuild my Disney Castle very soon, so I can display this next to it.
40xxx items are available from LEGO stores/online only, so covers many sets, not just GWPs. This is too big to be one: they'd be asking you to spend > $500 to acquire it!
Looks nice. Will that shield piece with the clock face be printed or a sticker?
Will look great on display with my Disney collectable Minifigures.
@Huw said:
"40xxx items are available from LEGO stores/online only, so covers many sets, not just GWPs. This is too big to be one: they'd be asking you to spend > $500 to acquire it!"
It doesn’t look much bigger than the diagon alley giveaway a couple years ago so I thought maybe free with $150-200 Disney purchase
Too many Mickeys already. It should be Walt Disney or Jimminy Cricket or Tinkerbell. or the underpaid sweaty worker under the Mickey costume at least.
Of the 54 sets in the 40xxx series released this year, https://brickset.com/sets/year-2021?query=40000-40999, 7 or 8 were GWPs. The number of this one is not even close to those of the other GWPs.
@Huw said:
"Of the 54 sets in the 40xxx series released this year, https://brickset.com/sets/year-2021?query=40000-40999, 7 or 8 were GWPs. The number of this one is not even close to those of the other GWPs."
40451, 40485?
You know it's very possible it's a GwP.
Some GwP's have been about 300 to 400 pieces and this looks around that at quick glance.
Maybe even high 200 piece count on this model.
I have the full size why do I want this one too
@Puppyjonathan said:
"I have the full size why do I want this one too"
Same reason we buy multiple versions of Hogwarts, Elsa's Ice Palace, many of the other Disney Princess Castles or any Castle at all. Castles are cool!
@Bycougars:
Or it means they can’t find it.
@DOLEGO1986:
Hard to say. The photos aren’t hi-res enough to tell, but in the top photo the deco definitely looks cockeyed.
@emartinez:
The person in the Mickey costume is in the backlot smoking a cigarette where the public can’t see her.
@Puppyjonathan said:
"I have the full size why do I want this one too"
Because now you can give the full sized one to me and get this as a replacement. Thanks for the generous offer.
Next one - Hogwarts please.
@FoolECK said:
"Next one - Hogwarts please."
Ooooo Yes please, a Fantasy Micro Castle Series!
@FoolECK:
Hogwarts in the movies is huge compared to the Disney park castles, so the existing microscale set might already be properly scaled to match, depending on how you compare them.
Cinderella’s Castle in Florida was built to the maximum height they could get away with by law, so they used forced perspective (and the utter lack of other tall structures in the area to compare it against) to make it seem a lot taller than it is. This set is celebrating the upcoming 50th anniversary of the WDWF attraction on October 1st, so it’s arguably a representation of that structure and not the in-story castle it’s based on. The microscale Hogwarts is also based on the Florida theme park structure, but it’s supposed to represent the in-story version instead, so physical scale comparisons between the two park attractions are meaningless, and you basically just have to go on whatever info is available regarding the size of the “real” Hogwarts. I have no idea what those numbers might be, but if the trophy figs are accurately scaled to the LEGO model, another option would be to see how closely that matches the height of the WDWF castle.
@Puppyjonathan said:
"I have the full size why do I want this one too"
Anytime there is a mini version of a full size set that I already have I MUST get the mini too. It's one of the things I love about LEGO - here's a Disney Castle with 4,000 pieces and it's awesome, now here's a Disney Castle with 300 pieces that is still identifiable as such and it's still awesome!
This is a perfect gift set. Any Lego fan will be very happy to receive it as a gift.
@Huw we know you already have this but you can't tell us so give us some indirect facts
Wow the 4080 piece Disney castle 71040 has been available for 5 years now! Shame the Disney train 71044 has been discontinued after only 2 years.
@ambr :
For those who consider it to be an actual castle, Cinderella’s Castle in WDWF is the most photographed castle in the world. Everyone who goes there wants a photo in front of it. Not as many people are aware that the trains are the entire reason Walt built Disneyland in California to begin with. I only learned that myself in the last few years.
@PurpleDave said:
" @ambr :
For those who consider it to be an actual castle, Cinderella’s Castle in WDWF is the most photographed castle in the world. Everyone who goes there wants a photo in front of it. Not as many people are aware that the trains are the entire reason Walt built Disneyland in California to begin with. I only learned that myself in the last few years."
....and yet, they are running the trains into the ground in CA. Two engines down with boiler problems, water-tower nonfunctional (they are filling from a garden hose, which is causing sludge problems) Disney is rolling in his grave so fast you could generate electricity off him.
@Murdoch17:
That’s...wow. If only they owned 40% of all Hollywood and could afford to do something about it...
Now listed at the US Lego.com for $34.99, available October 1, 2021.