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Castle / 1978

Classic - Yellow Castle Knight White

MinifiguresOfficial LEGO

The white knight of the Yellow Castle era shows just how experimental LEGO’s first minifigure-scale medieval world was. In 1978 there was no decades-old Castle visual canon to follow—LEGO was inventing it. Bright white clothing, simple heraldry, basic helmet geometry, and the new articulated minifigure created a knight through a handful of cues that children immediately understood. Later themes would add breastplates, chain mail, molded animals, elaborate factions, and darker fantasy. This figure predates all of that complexity. It represents Castle at its most elemental: a new human-shaped toy, a shield, a helmet, and the imaginative leap that turned yellow bricks into a fortress.

Catalog number
cas084a
Year
1978
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