The Royal Knights were one of the factions of the Castle theme introduced in 1995. Royal Knights was the first theme that introduced a minifigure portraying a king with a real crown. Most sets were released during its launch. The following year saw only two new sets. The Royal Knights had two minor guest appearances in sets of Dark Forest and Fright Knights.
1998 LEGO Sets
In 1998, LEGO released several new sets and themes, including the LEGO Star Wars theme, which was based on the Star Wars movies and featured models of characters, vehicles, and locations from the films. This theme was extremely popular and helped to boost LEGO's sales and popularity. 1998 was also the year that LEGO introduced the LEGO Mindstorms theme, which was a line of sets that allowed users to build and program robots using LEGO bricks and a computer.