King's Castle is good value for a Castle set

$99.99 MSRP 996 pieces 7 minifigures 4.1 / 5 from builders #3 of 8 Castle sets with 200+ pieces 35 × 33 × 28 cm built
King's Castle box art
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62 of 100

Good value

#3 of 8 Castle sets with 200+ pieces

King's Castle scores 62, good value among 8 Castle sets with 200+ pieces. Its strongest point is contents per dollar, better than 81% of them, and its weakest is minifigures per $100 (6%).

#3

Chart 1 · Among similar sets

Where it sits among 8 Castle sets with 200+ pieces

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Chart 2 · The score

How the 62 is built

Each bar is how the set ranks among similar sets; the ink line is typical (50).

Contents per dollarPlastic and pieces per dollar, with each minifigure counted as $2 of contents, compared with sets of a similar size
70 pcs/$10 · 141 plastic better than 81% +61 of 75
Minifigures per $1007 minifigures for the price
4.9 per $100 better than 6% +2 of 25

79

Quality · a separate score

How builders rate it

Not part of the value score. It ranks the builder rating against sets of 200–999 pieces from every theme.

  1. 14.1out of 5 from 158 Brickset members
  2. 24.08after adding 30 ratings at the average for sets of 200–999 pieces (3.97), so a few early ratings can’t dominate
  3. 379out of 100: rated higher than 79% of sets of 200–999 pieces

$18 less

Chart 3 · The price

Is the price fair for what’s in the box?

Sets with its pieces, plastic and minifigures usually cost about $118. Each brick is $25.

$99.99
you pay

$118
sets like it usually cost

See 70404-1 on Brickset How scores work