LEGO Beauty and the Beast Castle Retiring: 43263 in Stock

With the LEGO Beauty and the Beast Castle retiring, the surprise is that you can still order it, while the $80 cheaper Nightmare Before Christmas has sold out. lego.com shows the castle's badge next to Available now. The decision is whether to buy at full price now or wait for a holiday deal that has not appeared in our reads.

Key Takeaways

• Retiring soon badge, plus Exclusives, on the 43263 product page. Price $279.99, limit 5.
• Available now in 13 of 13 reads by our lego.com tracker, Oct 10 to Oct 25. Never discounted.
• 2,916 pieces, 10 minifigures, 18+, about 9.6 cents a piece; 1,820 Insiders points.
• No LEGO date. Brick Fanatics files it under a December 31 date.
• 4.7 stars from 99 reviews on lego.com.

What Happened: the LEGO Beauty and the Beast Castle retiring badge

The 43263 product page shows two labels above the name: Exclusives and Retiring soon. Below the $279.99 price it read "Available now" and "Limit 5" on October 25. lego.com explains the Exclusives label in its own words: the set is "available only at LEGO.com, in LEGO® Stores, and through selected retailers, before they are available anywhere else".

The badge gives no date, and LEGO has not published one. Brick Fanatics' retiring list, last updated October 13, files 43263 under "Retires December 31, 2026", with a release date in April 2025. That would be under two years on sale. It is a fan-site date, the same one it gives most of the LEGO Disney sets retiring in 2026.

Image: The LEGO Group (lego.com)

The set: four levels and a spinning ballroom floor

LEGO's newsroom revealed the castle in March 2025 as "The latest in the Disney Castle range". It described "four-detailed levels with multiple rooms, including a ballroom with a spinning floor". LEGO Insiders could buy it from April 1 and everyone from April 4, at $279.99. Eighteen months on, the US price is the same.

The designer was Ryan Van Woerkom. Blocks magazine, which interviewed him, wrote that the "Senior Model Designer Ryan Van Woerkom relished the challenge of building this 18+, 2,916 piece model for Disney fans".

Image: The LEGO Group (lego.com)

The product page lists the ten characters "from left to right: Maurice, Belle, Cogsworth, Chip and Mrs. Potts, Lumière, Fifi, the enchanted rose in a case, the Beast, Gaston and LeFou". It also invites you to "Recreate Belle and Beast's memorable dance scene on the spinning floor."

Desk note: Our lego.com tracker read 43263 on 13 days between Oct 10 and Oct 25. All 13 said Available now, all at $279.99, none with a discount. Between Oct 13 and Oct 19 the points line showed 3,640 Insiders points instead of 1,820, LEGO's double points week. Points, not price cuts, were the only deal.

Why It Matters: 43263 against the other 18+ Disney sets

Badges alone do not tell you how long you have. Here are the 18+ Disney sets on the Disney theme page with more than 2,000 pieces, from our lego.com catalog fetch of October 25.

21351 shows what can happen. It had the same badge and was Available now on Oct 10 and Oct 11, then read Sold out from Oct 13 onward. Our LEGO Ideas sets retiring list covers it with the other Ideas sets. Sold out sets rarely stay back for long: our study of whether sold out LEGO sets come back found six of 35 returned in October, each for one to three days.

Image: The LEGO Group (lego.com)

Main Street, U.S.A. is the biggest set in the table, and it has no badge. It costs $120 more and is dearer per piece. If you want a castle in particular, 43263 is the one on the shelf now.

What builders are saying

On lego.com the castle had 4.7 stars from 99 reviews on Oct 25. DuchessSpectacularPeach, five stars in January 2026, wrote: "This set is absolutely amazing." The same review adds a small warning: "The candelabras in the ballroom and the gargoyles are a bit fiddly, but apart from that, this build is strong, fun and satisfying."

Lullabelle, five stars in July 2025, was a near-beginner whose only earlier set was the Up House: "The detailed instructions made this so simple to build it was great." The most critical of the reviews we quote, from Brick by Brick UK (four stars, May 2025), liked that "the storeys are built in a way so they can be removed easily to access play features", but found "too many studs holding it together meaning it tends to fall apart while you try to remove them."

On how long a badged set lasts, a reply with 307 upvotes in a September r/lego thread about retirements is blunt, and it fits the 21351 story above:

Reddit comment saying LEGO retirement dates are guesses and stock can run out sooner

"Retirement dates are just darts on a board. If the stock ran out sooner then that's that," u/A_Pointy_Rock wrote. For 43263 the stock has not run out yet.

Our take

Buy 43263 at $279.99 now if it is on your list; do not wait for a discount. In 13 lego.com reads it never dropped below list price, and the only deal was double points. Its badged 18+ sibling, 21351, went from Available now to Sold out within two days.

Buy now if you want a Disney castle under $300 before the holidays; the 1,820 points it earns make two $5 rewards with 520 points left over, by our Insiders points value arithmetic. Skip or wait if you would rather have a Disney set that is staying: Main Street, U.S.A. has no badge.

What we don't know yet: whether LEGO puts 43263 on sale around Insiders Weekend or Black Friday, and whether stock lasts to December 31. On our watchlist: we re-read the 43263 page with every catalog fetch and log any change on our change log.

This take uses only the lego.com data and sources cited above, checked Oct 25.

How we checked this

On Oct 25 we read the 43263 product page in a desktop browser for labels, price, stock, limit, pieces, points and reviews, and took the 21351, 43302 and 10365 rows from our lego.com catalog fetch of the same day. Earlier labels, prices and points come from our tracker's 13 reads since Oct 10. The minifigure line-up and the Brick by Brick UK review were read on the product page on October 11 and 14. We read LEGO's March 2025 newsroom post, the Blocks magazine designer interview and Brick Fanatics' retiring list (updated October 13). Cents per piece is our arithmetic. A second pass compared every number with our source table. We haven't built this set.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the LEGO Beauty and the Beast Castle retiring? Yes, by lego.com's own label. The 43263 product page shows Exclusives and Retiring soon at $279.99, and on Oct 25 it read Available now with a limit of 5. LEGO gives no date. Brick Fanatics, a fan site, lists December 31, 2026, which is its estimate rather than a LEGO announcement.

When does the Beauty and the Beast Castle LEGO set retire? LEGO has not said. Brick Fanatics' retiring list, updated October 13, puts 43263 in its December 31, 2026 group, under two years after its April 2025 release. Treat the date as a planning aid. The stock label on lego.com tells you more about how long you have.

Is the LEGO Beauty and the Beast Castle still available? Yes, on Oct 25 it read Available now on lego.com at $279.99. It was in stock in every one of our 13 reads since Oct 10, never discounted. The other badged 18+ Disney set, 21351 The Nightmare Before Christmas, has read Sold out since Oct 13.

How much is the LEGO Beauty and the Beast Castle? $279.99 on lego.com in the US as of Oct 25, for 2,916 pieces and 10 minifigures, about 9.6 cents a piece by our arithmetic. That matches the US price LEGO's newsroom gave at launch in April 2025. The set earns 1,820 LEGO Insiders points at that price.

What comes with the LEGO Beauty and the Beast Castle? Ten minifigures, per the product page: Maurice, Belle, Cogsworth, Chip and Mrs. Potts, Lumière, Fifi, the Beast, Gaston and LeFou, plus the enchanted rose in a case. LEGO describes four levels, with a ballroom whose floor spins for Belle and the Beast's dance.

Related Reading

• LEGO Sets Retiring in 2026: The Full List by Theme: every theme with the badge, third-party dates labelled.
• How to Tell if a LEGO Set Is Retiring: reading the badge and the stock labels together.
• LEGO Gifts for Adults 2026: the best-value adult set at every price, if the castle is a gift.
• LEGO X-Mansion 76294 Retiring: another badged 18+ licensed set, already Sold out.

References

• lego.com product page: Beauty and the Beast Castle 43263, read October 25, 2026 (minifigure line-up and Brick by Brick UK review read October 11 and 14); labels, prices and points from our tracker, October 10 to 25
• lego.com catalog data for 21351, 43302 and 10365, October 25, 2026
• The LEGO Group debuts Disney Beauty and the Beast Castle set, LEGO newsroom, March 4, 2025
• Designing LEGO Disney 43263 Beauty and the Beast Castle with Ryan Van Woerkom, Blocks magazine
• Every LEGO set retiring this year and beyond, Brick Fanatics, updated October 13, 2026 (unofficial dates)