On first glance you might mistake this as the clone set of LEGO 71040 The Disney Castle set. However, this is MOC of Disney Hong Kong Sleeping Beauty Castle and different to the Danish maker set in many ways. The set had whopping 8388 pieces and full enclosure on four sides. The maker Mould King was a competitor to LEPIN’s parent company Meizhi in RC car market and differentiate itself in China clone bricks market by focusing on the MOC sets. The photos in this review are courtesy of CK.

A bit on the background of the designer of Sleeping Beauty Castle designer. Go by moniker “老谢”, he had built a full enclosure version of Disney Cinderella Castle using four LEPIN Disney Castle sets plus a large numbers of bricks. The end result was a master piece that used 20,000 parts. Photos below was the MOC of Cinderella Castle.

When 老谢 tried to commercialize the set, no clone brick maker would take his work as the set was too big and not market worthy. End up he used Disney Hong Kong Sleeping Beauty Castle as model and designed a smaller version for Mould King to release commercially. For 13132 Sleeping Beauty set, Mould King is using GoBricks to supply most of the parts, hence you would see dual serial numbers on the brick with both LEGO serial and Mould King own identifiers.

For this reviews, we would go through open box, set buildings and final verdict. There are lots of photos in this review so do bear with us. The whole building process took around 20 hours including photo taking.

The box itself was as big as UCS Millennium Falcon set.

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The box contained smaller boxes labelled A, B and C.

Two thick instruction manuals and sticker sheet. The stickers had LEGO Elves shields from Collectible Series. Also there were supposed to be two clock stickers. There were some minor errors in the manual, which we could figure it out ourselves.

Base plates of 16 x 16 and 32 x 32.

Numbering bags 1-6 from Box A.

The base occupied 64 x 64 base plate. Those who intended to acquire this set, do find plan ahead on where to display it. The clutch for Gobricks were a bit tight, suggested that you grab a rubber hammer to whack the pieces into place. You might find the floor design very similar to the Disney Castle set. That’s because the designer reference Disney Castle design for the base.

Box B with numbering bags 7-16.

Lots of small parts to build the stairs.

The wall building started from bag 8.

The statue for the fountain was in bag 19, so don’t panic if you can’t locate it.

Reaching bag 14 and the wall was completed.

Bag 15 onwards.

Box C for steps 17-26.

Bag 17. Spending lots of time here in building the mosaic wall.

Did you see the transparent pieces for the mosaic wall?

Cylindrical design which you build from bag 19.

Bag 21 were for upper part of the castle.

Bag 23, and it was tricky to find supporting point to build the steeple.

Suggest that you finished building the upper part before joining the lower part.

The spire was completed.

Due to the size, we had to take photos on the floor without proper studio lighting. Do read on for detail summary on the intricate internal and external designs.

There were lots of details to explore in Sleeping Castle. The tree outside the castle.

Front gate. Suggest that you don’t follow the manual 100% as the steps were confusing.

It’s dark inside.

Creative use of parts for the front gate.

The fountain seem a bit plain.

Another fountain here.

Lots of flower bed for decoration.

Another fountain, a gold ring on the statue head.

Highly decorated steeple.

Kudos to the designer for steeple design.

You could remove the tower and the fountain.

Mosaic wall built with colorful transparent parts.

The mosaic wall could be opened and revealing a staircase.

The staircase can be taken out to reveal the inner details.

Inner details for one of the room.

You could remove the tower.

Entire castle can be separated with the wall with extra caution and prior planning.

Removing the smaller steeples.

Now you could admire the inner details of the castle.

Light brick wasn’t included, we add it to have extra lighting for photo taking.

The sticker sheet supposed to have two clocks but only given one.

Comparison between Mould King Sleeping Beauty Castle and LEPIN Disney Castle. Mould King castle was few centimeters shorter and didn’t have any minifigures.

Mould King Castle was full design with surrounding walls. The original LEGO version only had 30% of the wall.

Back of the Castles, in which LEPIN Castle had better play-ability while Mould King was good for display.

It would take 4 x LEGO (LEPIN) Disney Castle to rebuild into full version with surrounding walls. Could you turn Mould King Sleeping Beauty Castle into Disney Cinderella Castle? It’s possible but required extensive MOC. Just save the trouble and enjoy the Sleeping Beauty Castle. You could migrate some of the Disney characters minifigures there.

In summary, the Sleeping Beauty Castle could hold its weight in comparison to LEGO design Cinderella Castle. You may order Mould King 13132 Sleeping Beauty Castle from Aliexpress.