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I am so very excited about these! Haven't been this excited about a Lego line, since I saw the Fright Knights sets on a store shelf. Only thing I don't like, like everyone else, is the bionicle monsters. Does anyone know when we'll be seeing these in the stores?

My observations about the sets:

v. Wolf set:
-Nice way to get a fully equiped viking cheap.
-Not real keen on the wolf

v. Kraken set:
-Looks like one of the better ones
-Two vikings, three helmets
-Nice larger boat
-Green snake
-Kraken is a decent monster

v. Midgard Serpent
-Love the long boat
-Possibly the best of the line
-Snake is ok. Better than some of the others
-Tons of shields
-Several vikings

v. Fafner
-Kind of an odd set up for the fortress, is it supposed to be a harbor?
-Lots of shields again
-Several vikings (including a maiden, perhaps? Or is it just Thor of the Chapped Lips?)
-Some euro-armor (on the guy in the left tower)
-Light grey spears
-What the heck is with that monster? Is Fafner Norse for a bunch of left over crap thrown together? (Looks like no dragon I've ever seen)
-Blechy bionicle accents

v. the Nidhogg
-Looks ok
-Can't see the catapult very well
-Don't like the dragon much at all
-He must be very good with that catapult if he's going to bring down a dragon with it

In general:
-Whoo-hoo!
-Love the beards
-Weapons, could be good. Might be too big. Will have to wait and see
-This is a biggie here: the figures look to be generic. None of this same 5 characters in every set nonsense.
-Don't like how the monsters are done, but what can you do?

All in all: my wallet is going to be hurting
Steve

YES! That looks great, the beasts look cool, the vikings look cool, and did you see the sheilds? Can someone say new stickers? I am thinking Rohan...

Thanks you so much, LEGO! I am awestruck that something like this could actually be happening!

I'm really not sure what I like best, but I am certain that two of the best parts are the new round shields and the silver euro armor.

D-Man

This is the most excited I've been about lego since I first saw Star Wars lego.

I will be definately getting the long boat - AWESOME set! I love the snake monster. Looks like quite a few figs too.

I'm not hating the monsters as much as everyone else seems to, I will hold off final judgement until I see better pics.

I'm just SO glad this didn't turn out to be Jack Stone crap!

Thank you lego!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
Life is good again!*dances*
New helmets,beards,and EURO ARMOR IN NORMAL COLOR!!!!!!!
HUUUUUUUUZZZZZZZZZZAH!

My feelings about these Viking sets are summed up by all the good things that have been pointed out by you all.

I will get some of the KK2 stuff when it hits the shelves.

I called my kids to come have a look at the photos and my 8 year old son seen the fortress an exclaimed (and I quote), "Knights Kingdom is sooo yesterday!"

Troy T. Moore wrote:"Knights Kingdom is sooo yesterday!"

My new manta, indeed!!

-Lenny

JPinoy wrote:Argh, I have an easier time scaling the size of minifigs than determining their "gender patterns".

Aha! So you are fallible!! Now I don't feel so bad

If it really is a female, I think TLC will find that these sets have a 'shelf life' of, oh.... 25 seconds or so before they are swept into many AFOLs' collections.

Alan

Does the female fig mean the fat lady has sung on KK2? Either way I'm very:


TTBK

WOW. That is awesome. I'm definetly going for the longboat. That thing looks sooooo sweet.

I can't wait. Must get hands on all of them!

-skud

Hello!

kajo163 wrote:This is going to be a great LEGO year, and I think we've earned it.

I wished I was able to earn as much money as I need for new LEGO this year...

Then the question arrises, is this castle?

Of course it is. It's more Castle than this crappish KK2-Powerranger stuff. At least there WERE Vikings back then in the Castle times. I don't see there have ever been Powerrangers in history. The Norsemen were part of the mediaeval European history, and a big part they were! Western Europe wouldn't be what it is today without them ransacking half the continent.

Does someone know of a releas date yet?

According to Jan Beyer again it will be released about this August.


Bye
Jojo

Jojo wrote:It's more Castle than this crappish KK2-Powerranger stuff. At least there WERE Vikings back then in the Castle times. I don't see there have ever been Powerrangers in history.

Isn't that the truth. I mean, I would much rather have a bearded lady from Norway in my lego collection, as opposed to a bunch of effeminate Knights!

After reviewing both the new Viking line, and KK2 year 2, all I can say is "Hurray for hairy women! Down with girly jellybean Knights!!"

Oh....my.... oh... I... don't know... what to say...

I am too speechless to talk right now... I don't even know what to post...

Thank god, I was really worried that lego was done for with all this Knight's Kingdom bs. I think they may be shifting a little bit back towards the right track now. *eagerly awaits better quality scans*