I actually like Knights Kingdom 2. This would've been awesome. Although personally I think the groups that hated KK2 would've hated this as well. So it might retroactively have made a stronger ending that people look back on more fondly but ultimately in the moment not so much.
It is hard to say. I will say this. I would love this now a days. Especially if you did all their bases and sets are ruin castles. If they can't do more D&D, I would love for Lego to do fantasy adventuer. I think this would be a perfect villain for them!
I used to have all the cards but I foolishly got rid of them. 😅but I recently completed the KK2 cards took a year to do it but worth it. The Sorcerer card fascinated me so much as a kid and the gargoyles too and was hyped to see where the story would go. Mike Rayhawk the illustrator, phenomenal artist btw, for the cards also worked on Nexo Knights and that's where the gargoyle influence from him got into Nexo Knights. For me I thought wave 1 was a solid introduction but I felt the Knights should have had different weapons like tmnt to distinguish each character from each other. The proto types actually this but Jayko prototype looks weird with the crossbow lol. TH-camr Cheesey Studios has some great videos on KK2. Really looking forward to him covering Wave 3 of it. The constraction figures wave 1 I did not like as a teen but wave 2 I thought was way better and wave 3 the best. For the play sets I enjoyed all of them I just wish there was more Morcian common troops to fight Vladek's Shadow Knights and later Rogue Knights. I know the Rogue Knights are joked as being naked but the colors for Dracus are yellow but their lego faces are typically are yellow which gives them that uncanny look. A better color I wish Lego used for Dracus' troops is the color from the Tournament Knight Cmf instead of yelllow lol. The wave 2 playsets I thought were great because it had Vladeks Dark Fortress, highly underrated castle set btw. The thing that annoyed me back as a teen was the online discussion saying that KK2 was juniorized which is complete baloney. Cuz all these sets introduced me to technic pieces and elements to function as part of the play experience like for the catapults, using them as vines on the Cidital of Orlan to have Rascus climb to the top, or as a battering ram for Vladek and Matthias siege towers that's clever not juniorized. The funny thing is the older Castle sets are just look very dated compared to later Castle sets but I recognize thus was the start of a great Lego Theme. Ps: Fright Knight builds are pretty atrocious. I still love em tho. 😅 The wave 3 sets I really did and still enjoy I just wish they had a few more for the wave cuz according to Mike Rayhawk it was cut short. So they had to finish the story with a few sets. They definitely should have had a wave four with the Sorcerer released and Vladek leading the gargoyle army alongside his rogue knights against Morcia. Which would have been an epic showdown. Side note: Fantasy Era should have given us Elfland in a wave 4 😊
I would absolutly love to get knights kingdom minifigures today in more realistic colours. A rascus helmet in gun metal grey or black would be an absolute dream. They really need to bring back a fantasy castle theme. As much as i love lego lotr, think how much money they would save on licensing if they just did their own fastasy stuff. It would absolutly sell well.
Yes. Mike Rayhawk discusses it on his web page how that's what they were going for new gargoyle enemies for the knights to fight but sadly had to cram all their story ideas to as few sets as possible in order to sort of cover what they teased us thru the cards. Wish it was more tho. 😊
I really dislike most fantasy elements in castle so I much prefer the story we got, anything remotely similar to ninjago/nexoknights is just overplayed and lame.
Oh as a kid I thought the name Morcia might have been based on an actual kingdom. The closest in history related to Morcia was the Kingdom of Mercia which was later led by King Alfred's daughter, she would inherit the kingdom and became Aethelflaed Lady of the Mercians. It's ironic even though she was an Anglo-Saxon the, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles whereas the Irish and Welsh annals who were enemies to the Saxons, recognize her as a renowned Saxon Queen. This is where I learned more about the Welsh and how Wales is described by the Saxons as forest, barren and mountainous land much like how Ankoria and the Borderlands are described in KK2. Wales is where a lot of the Legend of King Arthur comes from. A great book series based on Welsh mythology and legend is The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. It's a children's series not very big books but wow those books still hold up. Disney's The Black Cauldron is based off of The Chronicles of Prydain but took liberties of course. I love both the books and film 😊
I actually like Knights Kingdom 2. This would've been awesome.
Although personally I think the groups that hated KK2 would've hated this as well. So it might retroactively have made a stronger ending that people look back on more fondly but ultimately in the moment not so much.
amazing what perspective will do! i didn't 'hate' KKII but it also wasn't my favorite thing. i still knida want the border ambush
Thanks for sharing that history. I had no clue about the Classic Castle webpage
This is a fun investigation! I was in my dark ages at this time, but emerged in 2011 for Kingdoms/Eurobricks.
It is hard to say. I will say this. I would love this now a days. Especially if you did all their bases and sets are ruin castles. If they can't do more D&D, I would love for Lego to do fantasy adventuer. I think this would be a perfect villain for them!
Shame it didn't! Interesting video!
I used to have all the cards but I foolishly got rid of them. 😅but I recently completed the KK2 cards took a year to do it but worth it.
The Sorcerer card fascinated me so much as a kid and the gargoyles too and was hyped to see where the story would go. Mike Rayhawk the illustrator, phenomenal artist btw, for the cards also worked on Nexo Knights and that's where the gargoyle influence from him got into Nexo Knights.
For me I thought wave 1 was a solid introduction but I felt the Knights should have had different weapons like tmnt to distinguish each character from each other. The proto types actually this but Jayko prototype looks weird with the crossbow lol. TH-camr Cheesey Studios has some great videos on KK2. Really looking forward to him covering Wave 3 of it.
The constraction figures wave 1 I did not like as a teen but wave 2 I thought was way better and wave 3 the best.
For the play sets I enjoyed all of them I just wish there was more Morcian common troops to fight Vladek's Shadow Knights and later Rogue Knights.
I know the Rogue Knights are joked as being naked but the colors for Dracus are yellow but their lego faces are typically are yellow which gives them that uncanny look. A better color I wish Lego used for Dracus' troops is the color from the Tournament Knight Cmf instead of yelllow lol.
The wave 2 playsets I thought were great because it had Vladeks Dark Fortress, highly underrated castle set btw.
The thing that annoyed me back as a teen was the online discussion saying that KK2 was juniorized which is complete baloney. Cuz all these sets introduced me to technic pieces and elements to function as part of the play experience like for the catapults, using them as vines on the Cidital of Orlan to have Rascus climb to the top, or as a battering ram for Vladek and Matthias siege towers that's clever not juniorized. The funny thing is the older Castle sets are just look very dated compared to later Castle sets but I recognize thus was the start of a great Lego Theme. Ps: Fright Knight builds are pretty atrocious. I still love em tho. 😅
The wave 3 sets I really did and still enjoy I just wish they had a few more for the wave cuz according to Mike Rayhawk it was cut short. So they had to finish the story with a few sets.
They definitely should have had a wave four with the Sorcerer released and Vladek leading the gargoyle army alongside his rogue knights against Morcia. Which would have been an epic showdown.
Side note: Fantasy Era should have given us Elfland in a wave 4 😊
I would absolutly love to get knights kingdom minifigures today in more realistic colours. A rascus helmet in gun metal grey or black would be an absolute dream. They really need to bring back a fantasy castle theme. As much as i love lego lotr, think how much money they would save on licensing if they just did their own fastasy stuff. It would absolutly sell well.
These looks awesome! I wish they’d made this.
they did do a gargoyl bridge set, no?
Yes. Mike Rayhawk discusses it on his web page how that's what they were going for new gargoyle enemies for the knights to fight but sadly had to cram all their story ideas to as few sets as possible in order to sort of cover what they teased us thru the cards. Wish it was more tho. 😊
I really dislike most fantasy elements in castle so I much prefer the story we got, anything remotely similar to ninjago/nexoknights is just overplayed and lame.
Oh as a kid I thought the name Morcia might have been based on an actual kingdom. The closest in history related to Morcia was the Kingdom of Mercia which was later led by King Alfred's daughter, she would inherit the kingdom and became Aethelflaed Lady of the Mercians.
It's ironic even though she was an Anglo-Saxon the, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles whereas the Irish and Welsh annals who were enemies to the Saxons, recognize her as a renowned Saxon Queen.
This is where I learned more about the Welsh and how Wales is described by the Saxons as forest, barren and mountainous land much like how Ankoria and the Borderlands are described in KK2.
Wales is where a lot of the Legend of King Arthur comes from.
A great book series based on Welsh mythology and legend is The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. It's a children's series not very big books but wow those books still hold up. Disney's The Black Cauldron is based off of The Chronicles of Prydain but took liberties of course. I love both the books and film 😊