You are such a perfectionist. I can not believe that you can say that this isn't totally finished yet.
Well, the modelling is ready, but I would like to include some boos if possible. That's why it's not finished.
If the courtyard gets finished before the rest of the castle are you going to release the courtyard first?
It will get finished before the rest of the castle, and I'll release it first, yes. And, as a separate stage released before the castle, I'll make some alternate version for it. I mean, playing in another place other than the fountain could be fine too.
In my opinion, even more impressive than your ability to build these stages from scratch is the fact that you can fit everything in one file (size-wise). The entirety of Peach's Castle looks like your largest stage by a longshot, and there must be hundreds of models in there, so it's amazing that the file size is still small enough to be read by Brawl.
Talking about size, I had some size trouble when half of the main area was done, but I was able to expand my possibilities (same goes to FoD with the already unreleased color changing version). And now, I'm starting to hit the limits again with it. Fortunately, the only remaining things in the stage are trees, which are not that important. If I hit a new unavoidable limit, I'll leave it as is, cause the remaining trees are not really necessary. Anyway, I'm using over 20 MShadow models, if I only used the necessary ones for each version, I guess I will complete the stage without cutting off any tree.