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Medieval Horse Knight Castle

A proper castle with six knights, and horses you actually build.

Brick Rated Score

4.1/5

Set 31168 · 2025

Pieces1,371

Minifigs6

Year2025

Set number31168

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The verdict

This is the castle a lot of us have been quietly wanting since 31120, and it fixes the old flat footprint with a lumpy, irregular shape that finally looks like real stonework.

Six minifigures, two new factions, and posable brick-built horses make it feel loaded. The catch is the price: at full RRP it asks a lot for what's here, so this really shines for the castle fan who can wait for a discount.

Best for: Castle fans who love knights, factions, and a play-first fortress

The full review

The Horse Knights are what got me first. LEGO rarely gives Creator 3-in-1 a whole new castle faction, let alone two, and this LEGO® set drops in a blue, white and gold Horse Knight lineup plus a scaly Serpent Knight who looks like he wandered in from a much pricier box. You get six minifigures in total, a king, a champion, an archer, a spearman, a blacksmith and that lone serpent, and four of them are brand new to this set. For a 1,371-piece castle, that is a generous little cast, and it is the part that will pull castle fans in before they have read a single spec.

The castle itself is the real reason to look. Where the older 31120 sat on a flat rectangle, this one has an irregular, adjustable footprint that actually reads like stonework, with a movable drawbridge, a great hall, a stable, a smithy, a secret treasure chest, a king's bedroom, a little writing room and two tower terraces. It opens at the back so you can reach in and play, which matters more than it sounds. The two posable brick-built horses are the other headline, and they are surprisingly poseable for a Creator build.

Now the money, because it is the sticking point everyone raises. At $129.99 this asks thirty dollars more than the excellent 31120 did, and it actually gives you fewer pieces (1,371 against 1,426). Price per piece lands around nine cents, which is fine but not thrilling, and reviewers keep pointing out that 31120 delivered a big chunk of this magic for less. So at full RRP the value is only okay. Catch it at 20-30% off, though, and the maths flips completely and it becomes an easy yes.

The horses are the one genuine divider. Some builders love that a Creator set makes you build your own creatures, and the posable result is charming and useful in a wider castle layout. Others just want the classic moulded horse so their stable matches every other LEGO castle they own. Neither camp is wrong, it just depends on whether you see brick-built animals as a feature or a compromise.

If you love knights, factions and a fortress built for actual play, this one is easy to recommend, especially once it dips below sticker price. If you already own 31120 and mostly wanted moulded horses and the lowest price per brick, you can happily skip it. But as a modern castle with real character, six solid figures and three builds in the box, it earns its place on the shelf.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build works section by section the way good Creator castles do, and it never drags. You start on the ground floor with the great hall and the smithy, move up through the king's bedroom and writing room, and finish with the two tower terraces, so there is always a new little room to look forward to. The irregular footprint means you are angling walls rather than stacking a plain box, which keeps the stonework interesting, and the drawbridge and back-opening play features get worked in as you go rather than bolted on at the end. The two brick-built horses are their own satisfying mini-builds, fiddly in the best way as you get the legs posable.

On pieces, the headline is the minifigures rather than a single wild new mould. The Horse Knight faction arrives in a crisp blue, white and gold scheme with fresh prints, and the Serpent Knight is the standout collectible, the kind of figure people buy the set to army-build. There is plenty of grey and tan stonework you will happily raid for your own castles, gold accents, and printed heraldic elements that are hard to get elsewhere. At 1,371 pieces for roughly nine cents each it is a slightly-better-than-average parts haul, and the real value sits in those six figures and the rarer printed and faction pieces, not in the plain bricks.

Fun facts

01This set introduces two brand new LEGO Castle factions at once, the blue-white-and-gold Horse Knights and the scaly Serpent Knight, which is unusual for the budget-minded Creator 3-in-1 line.
02It is effectively the spiritual sequel to the much-loved 2021 set 31120 Medieval Castle, but it swaps that set's flat rectangular base for an irregular, adjustable footprint that looks far more like real stonework.
03Both horses in the set are posable brick-built creatures rather than the usual moulded LEGO horse, leaning into the Creator idea of building your own animals.
04Despite costing thirty dollars more than 31120 at launch, it actually contains fewer pieces, 1,371 versus the older castle's 1,426.