Royal Knights castle from idea book 697

[SpacePolice89]

I've built the castle from idea book 697. I made some small changes and some of the pieces have different colors.

 

 

[KristinnK]

Really cool, these builds in the ideas books have always held a special fascination to me, a sort of "what could have been".

I would have loved though for the post to include an image of the build from the book for comparison.

[sander1992]

That brings back memories! 

[SpacePolice89]

5 hours ago, KristinnK said:

Really cool, these builds in the ideas books have always held a special fascination to me, a sort of "what could have been".

I would have loved though for the post to include an image of the build from the book for comparison.

Thanks! Here are some pictures from the idea book.

1 hour ago, sander1992 said:

That brings back memories! 

Yes it does. When I was younger me and my best friend used to build many of the builds from this idea book. He later gave it to me. We always tried to recreate the scenes from the idea books plus also adding our own MOCs as well.

[BrickJagger]

Thanks for bringing this to life! I wish they'd return to including these kinds of alternate builds in instruction manuals as a way to kickstart creativity.

[SpacePolice89]

19 hours ago, BrickJagger said:

Thanks for bringing this to life! I wish they'd return to including these kinds of alternate builds in instruction manuals as a way to kickstart creativity.

Yes, that would be great. I believe many people would be interested in a modern idea book for themes such as City or Ninjago. One problem might be the high number of specialized pieces and colors nowadays that makes alternate models more difficult to build.