Light Kit for Belle and the Beast's Castle #43196

Half asleep, softly lit

Beauty and the Beast was released in 1991 and became the first animated feature ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture; it took the awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song. The castle in it is not a backdrop — it is cursed, it is dark and cold for most of the film, and it only opens up when the spell breaks. That arc is visible in the design: the colour scheme is subdued until the very end.

Stacked rooms rather than one grand façade, which is what Disney Belle and the Beast's Castle 43196 is. The ballroom takes the centre with its floor and tables, the enchanted household objects are spread through the rooms above and below it, and the tower at the top is where the rose is kept. Everything sits close to the outer surface, so the interior can be read from the side as well as the front.

Lighting it means treating the castle as a building that is half awake. The ballroom takes a warm source, the windows take a cooler light so the glass reads as glass, and the upper tower gets its own small accent so the rose stays visible while everything around it stays dim. The household objects are lit from the side rather than above, and the finished effect is charming rather than grand.

Shallow rooms are the advantage here: the units reach the ballroom and the tower without dismantling anything, and the ballroom floor takes the warmest source of the set. It is the smaller of the two Beauty and the Beast castles in the lego disney sets, and the easiest disney building kit to light, because the rooms are only a few bricks deep. The disney lego characters in the ballroom end up lit from below, which is how the film lights the scene at the end.

• Supports already built LEGO® Belle and the Beast's Castle sets with a little refitting required.
• No circuit experience needed, just follow our simple step-by-step instructions for guidance.
• Twisted pair design balances robustness and installation concealment.
• Have your LEGO® sets be exciting and soul-filled even in the daytime.

What's Included

• The Led Light Kit includes Connecting Cables, Lights, Expansion Boards, etc.
• Battery Box( without Batteries).
• Instructions in PDF format provided.

Type: Compatible with LEGO® sets
Material: Eco-friendly ABS plastic