I didn't know this theme existed until around 2012. My grandma found a box of Lego at a thrift store and saved it for my brother and I and it contained the original Gringotts Bank and Dueling club, about half a bionicle, and Vladek's Dark Fortress which I had never seen before. The instructions were included but the cover was missing, so we were building it at her kitchen table with no idea what it would look like when it was complete. This was one of the last times we visited her house before she passed, so it holds a ton of nostalgia for me. So cool to see it appreciated in a modern review video!
I love that most people have the original Cloud City as a holy grail set, but you want an obscure Scala set, lol. Although I see why, there are some crazy pieces in that set
The Belville and Scala lines are such a treasure trove of bizarre parts. I did end up getting "The Princess and the Pea" (the other set that features Vladek's crystal ball) while editing this video since I found it sealed at a great price! 😂
Legitimately one of the best castles Lego ever made. It’s also possible to pretty easily make it fully enclosed by attaching the Scorpion Outpost and the castle landing to it.
Something I noticed about wave 2 is that Sir Rascus' minifigure was always depicted with dark green hands, dark green hips and a dark green helmet as his accent color. Whether it be promotional pictures of the sets he appeared in, his minifigure form in the comic panels or even his own action figure, he had dark green hands. However his official figure always came with black hands instead which made him the odd one out compared to his fellow knights whose accent colors also featured darker colors (Jayko with dark blue hands, hips and helmet, Santis with dark tan hands, hips and helmet and Danju with dark bluish gray hands, hips and helmet). I don't know why Rascus was the only exception to the rule as he would've been the first minifigure with dark green hands but I assume it had something to do with quality issues. Regardless, dark green hands made their actual first appearance in 2013 with Legends of Chima. I swapped his hands with the correct color and the figure looks complete and consistent with the others now and I highly recommend this change to anyone.
Knight’s Kindgom and Orient Expedition were my “gateway drugs” into Lego as well. I regret not being able to get EVERY set from both, but I definitely remember having so much fun with the Castle of Morcia and Vladek’s Dark Fortress!
Knights Kingdom II is one of the most nostalgic Lego themes for me! I had a couple sets, every single action figure from all the waves and even the board game. I distinctly remember going to Legoland as a kid and getting foam swords and helmet to fight my friends (who’s family was also at legoland with us) on the big castle, with the dragon ride.
I absolutely love these videos, it is really interesting to see a closer look at some older lego themes that I never got to experience and learn about all of the niche pieces and facts about them
I'm so glad to hear it! It's great that you're able to learn a few new things. That's part of the reason why I love making these videos too. I'm always finding out about rare parts and sometimes even whole new sets I've never seen before!
I grew up in the 2010’s with themes like superheroes, City, Ninjago and Nexo Knights and I’ve always found these older original themes I missed out on fascinating to watch in your videos, partially tempted to try and buy some of these sets you review here
There's some real gems from this era. One of my favorite Knights' Kingdom sets would be "Border Ambush" (from wave one). It's a smaller set well worth picking up that would give you a taste of what this theme has to offer!
Your channel always throws my brain into blissful nostalgia. Thank you for doing these videos. It really just brings me back. I didn't get many Lego sets but I had the Lego magazine and seeing all these sets made me want them so badly. It's cool to see them "in person"
The impressive thing is, despite me not liking the Knights Kingdom era, I was still very interested in watching this video and found it quite enjoyable. That's the power of Cheesey: even if you don't love the theme, he still makes the video engaging and interesting. Thats the mark of a great YT creator. P.S. I think I need to cop that Vladek Fortress now...
Growing up playing Runescape when I was 10 years old loving knights. When I saw Vladek's Dark Fortress in the store back in the day I immediately asked my mom and dad to buy this set. 100 Euro was a lot of money and I thought I might not be able to get the set, but I was surprised my parents agreed to buy it. It was my very first LEGO set I got and also started my LEGO journey into having more castle sets. I still remember the moment when I saw this set, because it meant so much to me. It made me the LEGO castle fan I am today.
I saw your first review of the Knights Kingdom several months ago. I’m just now realizing you did wave 2, and this was such a blast to the past. Really enjoy your reviewing style and commentary. Excellent work! Can’t wait to see more.
I got a couple of the Knight's Kingdom sets for Christmas back in the day. In recent years, I've worked on expanding the number of characters in both factions. After getting one of the Fantasy Era sets, I decided to make the knights from that theme the foot soldiers for the kingdom of Morica who assist the four main knights in their missions (it helps that the kingdoms' colors of both themes are blue and gold.) I also made wives for the two rulers. Queen Mathias wears the blue dress from the Fantasy Era Queen while Lady Vladek is clad in the robes of the Evil Wizard from whatever minifigure series he's from.
This video series is peak, please keep it going! I'd love to see more coverage of 2000s - 90s LEGO themes like this (Still waiting on the Mars Mission wave 2 video btw)
I have a battery-operated sword from Knights Kingdom year 2 based on Vladek's design in the action figure. the idea is that as you swing the sword it makes sounds of clashing blades. It was also packed with some of the action figures if I recall correctly.
I missed out on so many sets during this era as I was going through a "I only like action figure" phase as I entered highschool. I did collect the figures and I was a big fan of Bionicle but wow the build sets here are amazing
There was a lot of other great LEGO stuff to be distracted by at the time, so I get it! Glad you got some of the Knights' Kingdom action figures though - some of them are actually pretty awesome.
Same! I was fully invested in Bionicle. Missed out on a majority of Kingdoms, Fantasy, Knights Kingdom, Power Miners, and even Exo Force. I really regret that, but then again I didn't have my own income source then, so my hands were already tied.
Had a Knight’s Kingdom themed birthday party for my 6th or 7th birthday, We had the invites, and I think there was some other themed party stuff too. Core memory for sure!
While I personally preferred 1 and 3, Vladek's fortress remains my favorite castle playset. It's huge and has lots of playfeatures. I think it gets even better when you combine it with "Dark Fortress Landing".
I have absolutely loved every minute of your retrospectives on Knights Kingdom. It's not just the nostalgia talking, either; both the theme and your videos are top-notch excellence! 😊
The villain builds in this wave were the perfection of lego, going back to classic castle: big pieces that look great and speed up the building process with enough detail spread in that it looks good. Sets today are so arduous to put together and take so much time that it's daunting to reconfigure them, even though the freedom afforded by many more smaller pieces is so high.
I do believe somewhere in the last decade LEGO seems to have forgotten that they make TOYS lol... Yeah, I find myself missing the simplicity too. If I want a beautiful model, I'll make one myself. I feel like kids these days don't have the patience for these 500-1000 piece playsets.
I actually got a few of the wave three action figures from ABC when I was down there filming the LM Christmas special. It was good that I found them too, as some of them can be quite rare!
Lego Knights Kingdom is one of the reasons along with Lord of the Rings that I love swords and knights to this day. Unfortunately I never owned any of the sets beyond one of the Knight figures, The King. But I avidly read the comics on the Lego website back in the day and played the web game.
As a kid, I was always a little bummed that Lego never made a generic good-guy knight. Especially since the shadow knights are all corrupted Kingdom knights. Could have made a cool transformation feature in a set (like the anakin to vader transformation in 2005)
New subscriber here ( Thanks to Jacob…Brickworld today ) Your videos are top notch, I’ll be watching regularly now 😊 I’m going to aspire to achieve your quality someday.
As a child I had both castles of the Knights Kingdom Series, it was so awesome to play with them, I loved it! Then the dark fortress fell apart, because my father dropped it while making room for my brother's weight bench, which he never actually used :( but it's Lego, so I could rebuild it like I wanted to, good times :)
Your excitement for this series is so amazing to see. I really loved these sets, especially Vladek's fortress, which still holds the record for the longest time I've had a set without taking it apart. Glad you can enjoy it now as well!
A shame you didnt show the alternate builds for vladeks castle that features an insane black galleon f.ex. i remember being mad as a child, that there werent instructions included for it
I spent a good 50 hours last week working on it! An early version is up now, and I'm hoping for a public release in June :) th-cam.com/video/MPXAQBiJml4/w-d-xo.html
Gosh, I absolutely ADORED that! Knights Kingdom has a really special place in my heart. I discovered it long after it had discontinued when I was little, and it was through bits and pieces of second hand Lego I got from multiple different people, most of the sets being incomplete. It always stuck out as a bit of an oddity to me for some reason, probably because I’d never heard of it and it felt like this strange elusive theme, but it had such a distinct feel and it’s become so nostalgic to me. There’s something about it that I can’t quite explain, but I just love it! You did a phenomenal job revisiting it, and I love hearing the excitement in your voice due to the nostalgia you have for this theme, it’s so wholesome. And along with the cozy and nostalgic feel of your videos it just makes for such an enjoy experience overall! As always, I love the work you do man. You’re a real gem in the community 🙌🏽🧡
Love all of these, but I think that design of heroes’ armor was done better in the first wave. The ornamental abstract design looks much cooler, especially for Vladek. Shields too, their symmetry is far more interesting for me.
That's very fair. I do think the theme lost a bit of the unique style that really set it apart in wave one. You see it with the much more straightforward castle design compared to Morcia
Hey quick question. First of all excellent vid but are you every going to do a space police revisit? That stuff has some of the coolest figs and funniest story lol!!!
I suppose the knight's boat having the same design scheme as the castle is good cohesion but it does weirdly imply this sea worthy vessle is made of....stone
Price-per-piece is a pretty scuffed metric these days since sets are universally including smaller and smaller pieces. I'm really glad Bricklink records all the weights!
25:20 Oh I may be one of the few who has figured it out. Its been a while, so I don't recall exactly, but what I did was hold my finger on the cog firmly, with a bit of downward force, then roll the cog backwards with as much speed as you can whilst maintaining a bit of said downward force. When you get it right, its insanely powerful, more so than the spring launcher. Not the most intuitive design, but definitely definitely a fun one. I remember rolling it so hard that the "toothed plate" piece would jam up in the front against the cheese slope.
What would make the shadow knights better would be to have them not have the classic yellow heads and instead have blank black heads with angry red eyes, kind of like the knight from Lego Scooby Doo. It would help match the original pictures of the evil characters.
Honestly, I feel like I tend to disagree with a lot of modern afols on the things they complain about. While obviously I do enjoy building Lego sets, playing with and displaying them was always my favorite part, so the “juniorization” thing people talk about is something I actually kind of miss in a lot of newer sets. Precisely putting on a million 1x1 plates in slightly different colors to create details that would’ve just been a sticker in 2007 I find kind of tedious. The way everything is tiled off now so minifigures can’t easily stand on most surfaces without falling over is a big annoyance to me. While I do understand the value of wanting a “realistic” look, the fact is that Lego is a toy. If I wanted something super realistic, I could buy a sculpted/painted model kit or scale replica that would be much more realistic than even the most complicated modern Lego set. To me, the benefit of buying a Lego castle instead of train set scale model of one IS the fact you can play with it. I think that element of playability and fun, while still present in some modern sets, is tragically less common these days. Although, I was always a god at cleanly applying stickers even as a kid, so maybe my point of view is biased.
@@CheeseyStudios I definitely agree. I kind of feel like City and Creator the last bastions of old-school, “fun” Lego in the modern era. That said, the brand has gone through so many changes and experiments in its history that I still have hope they’ll eventually they’ll circle back around to in-house themes and playable sets again. After all, if they can go from wooden ashtrays to Galidor, anything is possible.
The fact almost the entire wave was dedicated to the villains is unheard of with todays LEGO and this is something I think they should do more rotate waves for each side in Star Wars, Dreamzzz, Ninjago etc also it is possible to find the dark fortress landing by itself but it’s very hard to find these days
I still have my 8877 Vladek's Dark Fortress set and it's 99.9999999999% complete. One of the red rubber bands for the drawbridge has gone missing. I'll probably just get a replacement off of Bricklink if I ever get round to it. Also, when are you going to cover the Lego Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets 2002 wave?
I have most of a copy of this set, including that side build ballista. I believe at 25:56 you demonstrated pretty much exactly how it's supposed to work. It's very finnicky but basically you hold the ballista in place and run your finger over the wheel which should propel the projectile forward. Difficult to make it go far. If I can get a good demonstration with my decrepit copy I could upload!
The Knights Kingdom line is over all a really cool line up in general and gives much room for more Medieval based stories for kids., and really could go a long way probably if it made a third resurgence, hell make them cameo with Ninjago.
I absolutely love these sets and I think you did them justice. I do a lot of moc building and you have just made me want to do a knights kingdom moc so badly. Can’t wait for wave 3!
The dark red horse armor was also in the first year's Vladek Encounter set, its even on the thumbnail of the old video! edit: The blue horse helmet was in the previous year's polybag ballista as well
I actually like the 2004-05 Knights Kingdom-line a lot. I don't like the big action-figures. I don't think the actual sets are that great either. But the minifigs are fantastic! I like that there are very unique sub-divisons of the "classic" Lion Kingdom, and one of them is a traitor and the villain of the story. The story is kinda meh, but I like to see it as "building pieces" to sort of make my own lore when building MOCs. Its like, using pieces to do world-building like you would to build lego... I can totally imagine each of the knights having their own region of the kingdom and their own little castle and stuff. I just wished they focused more on minifigs and less on the buildings and vehicles. Or that they sold actual battle-packs for this, like they do with Star Wars
@@CheeseyStudios Yess! I would have been happy with just some generic "King's army-soldier" to be the good guy-version of the Shadow Knights, tbh. But getting different soldier types would have been amazing. Too bad the King Mathew-minifig probably is extremely expensive these days. His torso would be perfect for like, medieval foot soldiers.
Man, I really appreciate you bringing up the weight of Vladek's Fortress. Price-per-mass of a LEGO set has always been my go-to metric and it's nice to see others use it and not just drone on about price per part.
Price per part is just so out of whack these days when half the parts are 1x1 plates 😂 Another good metric has always been Jangbrick's, which is based purely on "vibes" lol
@CheeseyStudios yea, I've always agreed with Jang's vibes approach, though I do think the detail inherent in the more recent sets with tons of tiny pieces works for me.
The thing where the good guys are shown as having an army and using it effectively is honestly something you don’t see all that often in modern media. Wish we got a bunch more generic minifigs for that.
Engraçado que estes shadow kinght são os mesmos que os cavaleiros negros dos sets do Lego Castle, tirando as olheiras é claro. Quando as minifigures se repetem muito procuro misturar com outras skins, mudando a roupa, cabelo e barba quando possível, ou simplesmente transformo elas em clone truppers!!! ahahahah!
I was pretty little when this theme came out, but I was lucky enough to have Vladek's Dark Fortress. I still have a decent amount of the pieces in storage, and I have the knights proudly diplayed on my wall.
Fireball Catapult is one of my favorite Castle themed sets ever. I didn't need to be invested in the story, it was just a nice little build, a couple of well designed knights with color scheme implied alignment of good and evil, and a horse.
I think, simple to no interiours is not a bad choice. For example I have vladeks fortress and the cafe corner and I filled both with my parts collection and a bit of creativity.
As to the weight, wouldn’t the BURPs and LURPs inflate the weight while reducing piece count? I’ve never known how to feel about those dark gray sloped rock prints.
That's kind of the beauty of this style though - using BURPs helps keep the cost way down. Building the same rock formation out of basic bricks would be significantly heavier while creating the same effect
This revisited series is always like Christmas coming early. I just booked myself a 45 minute meeting at work in order fit this in.
Stick it to the man
lolol I love that so much
"Reload"
"Reload"
"Re...dammit, horseman, can you move a bit to the left?"
I didn't know this theme existed until around 2012. My grandma found a box of Lego at a thrift store and saved it for my brother and I and it contained the original Gringotts Bank and Dueling club, about half a bionicle, and Vladek's Dark Fortress which I had never seen before. The instructions were included but the cover was missing, so we were building it at her kitchen table with no idea what it would look like when it was complete. This was one of the last times we visited her house before she passed, so it holds a ton of nostalgia for me. So cool to see it appreciated in a modern review video!
What a great memory to have! Lots of great sets. I love the idea of building the fortress with no idea how it'll turn out in the end
I love that most people have the original Cloud City as a holy grail set, but you want an obscure Scala set, lol. Although I see why, there are some crazy pieces in that set
wait what
The Belville and Scala lines are such a treasure trove of bizarre parts. I did end up getting "The Princess and the Pea" (the other set that features Vladek's crystal ball) while editing this video since I found it sealed at a great price! 😂
Vladek was pondering the orb before it was cool
what a trendsetter
Legitimately one of the best castles Lego ever made. It’s also possible to pretty easily make it fully enclosed by attaching the Scorpion Outpost and the castle landing to it.
Oooh, that’s a great idea! :0
That sounds like a truly epic fortress!
Something I noticed about wave 2 is that Sir Rascus' minifigure was always depicted with dark green hands, dark green hips and a dark green helmet as his accent color. Whether it be promotional pictures of the sets he appeared in, his minifigure form in the comic panels or even his own action figure, he had dark green hands. However his official figure always came with black hands instead which made him the odd one out compared to his fellow knights whose accent colors also featured darker colors (Jayko with dark blue hands, hips and helmet, Santis with dark tan hands, hips and helmet and Danju with dark bluish gray hands, hips and helmet).
I don't know why Rascus was the only exception to the rule as he would've been the first minifigure with dark green hands but I assume it had something to do with quality issues. Regardless, dark green hands made their actual first appearance in 2013 with Legends of Chima.
I swapped his hands with the correct color and the figure looks complete and consistent with the others now and I highly recommend this change to anyone.
Great catch! I'll have to do the same for my figures.
Knight’s Kindgom and Orient Expedition were my “gateway drugs” into Lego as well. I regret not being able to get EVERY set from both, but I definitely remember having so much fun with the Castle of Morcia and Vladek’s Dark Fortress!
That's so epic you had both! The battles that must have been waged, haha...
Knights Kingdom II is one of the most nostalgic Lego themes for me! I had a couple sets, every single action figure from all the waves and even the board game. I distinctly remember going to Legoland as a kid and getting foam swords and helmet to fight my friends (who’s family was also at legoland with us) on the big castle, with the dragon ride.
The foam swords were too much fun!
Love the midnight vibe with the lights in the background
Thank you! It's always a fun setup to do for these videos
I absolutely love these videos, it is really interesting to see a closer look at some older lego themes that I never got to experience and learn about all of the niche pieces and facts about them
I'm so glad to hear it! It's great that you're able to learn a few new things. That's part of the reason why I love making these videos too. I'm always finding out about rare parts and sometimes even whole new sets I've never seen before!
I grew up in the 2010’s with themes like superheroes, City, Ninjago and Nexo Knights and I’ve always found these older original themes I missed out on fascinating to watch in your videos, partially tempted to try and buy some of these sets you review here
There's some real gems from this era. One of my favorite Knights' Kingdom sets would be "Border Ambush" (from wave one). It's a smaller set well worth picking up that would give you a taste of what this theme has to offer!
Same for me. I was definitely a Ninjago and Hero Factory kid and still am to this day.
Your channel always throws my brain into blissful nostalgia. Thank you for doing these videos. It really just brings me back. I didn't get many Lego sets but I had the Lego magazine and seeing all these sets made me want them so badly. It's cool to see them "in person"
No problem at all! It's fun to relive my childhood dreams by purchasing these sets as an adult. Glad I can share the joy!
@@CheeseyStudios Keep it up! I'll never not be excited to see you upload a video revisiting these classic sets 👊
The impressive thing is, despite me not liking the Knights Kingdom era, I was still very interested in watching this video and found it quite enjoyable. That's the power of Cheesey: even if you don't love the theme, he still makes the video engaging and interesting. Thats the mark of a great YT creator.
P.S. I think I need to cop that Vladek Fortress now...
Ha! I love to hear it 😂 You definitely can't go wrong with the Fortress. It's gotta be one of the most epic LEGO castles ever!
Growing up playing Runescape when I was 10 years old loving knights. When I saw Vladek's Dark Fortress in the store back in the day I immediately asked my mom and dad to buy this set. 100 Euro was a lot of money and I thought I might not be able to get the set, but I was surprised my parents agreed to buy it. It was my very first LEGO set I got and also started my LEGO journey into having more castle sets. I still remember the moment when I saw this set, because it meant so much to me. It made me the LEGO castle fan I am today.
That's awesome you got to experience it as a kid! It's one of the greatest LEGO castles of all time - no doubt about it.
I also loved RuneScape and LEGO Knights as a kid! :D
I saw your first review of the Knights Kingdom several months ago. I’m just now realizing you did wave 2, and this was such a blast to the past.
Really enjoy your reviewing style and commentary. Excellent work! Can’t wait to see more.
Much appreciated!
@@CheeseyStudios Look forward to the final wave if you ever decide to review it!
I only managed one or two sets out of that one.
Really love these videos that go over not as popular / not as well known themes.
These are my favorite videos to make, too! I love highlighting these old themes. The 2000s really were a second golden age for LEGO.
I got a couple of the Knight's Kingdom sets for Christmas back in the day. In recent years, I've worked on expanding the number of characters in both factions. After getting one of the Fantasy Era sets, I decided to make the knights from that theme the foot soldiers for the kingdom of Morica who assist the four main knights in their missions (it helps that the kingdoms' colors of both themes are blue and gold.)
I also made wives for the two rulers. Queen Mathias wears the blue dress from the Fantasy Era Queen while Lady Vladek is clad in the robes of the Evil Wizard from whatever minifigure series he's from.
I think the dragon knights from the 2014 line (I think 2014) could be great vladek foot soldier if you need more.
This video series is peak, please keep it going!
I'd love to see more coverage of 2000s - 90s LEGO themes like this
(Still waiting on the Mars Mission wave 2 video btw)
Don't you worry - lots more to come!
I have a battery-operated sword from Knights Kingdom year 2 based on Vladek's design in the action figure. the idea is that as you swing the sword it makes sounds of clashing blades. It was also packed with some of the action figures if I recall correctly.
That sounds so awesome
These sets were also THE wave of my childhood- totally legendary! Thanks as always for the exemplary walk down memory lane
It's my pleasure! It was so fun to rebuild all these.
I can’t wait for the Lego Castle troll sets to be reviewed. Such nostalgia
That'll definitely be a fun batch of videos to do :)
Love the reviews. The blasts from the past are so sweet!
I missed out on so many sets during this era as I was going through a "I only like action figure" phase as I entered highschool. I did collect the figures and I was a big fan of Bionicle but wow the build sets here are amazing
There was a lot of other great LEGO stuff to be distracted by at the time, so I get it! Glad you got some of the Knights' Kingdom action figures though - some of them are actually pretty awesome.
Same! I was fully invested in Bionicle. Missed out on a majority of Kingdoms, Fantasy, Knights Kingdom, Power Miners, and even Exo Force. I really regret that, but then again I didn't have my own income source then, so my hands were already tied.
And again we got an amazing video! Thank you for these! This was my childhood as well, great stuff!
So glad you enjoyed!
Knights Kingdom should get a remake. Same story, but modern pieces and sensibilities.
That would be so cool. Looking at the success of Ninjago, I feel there's a lot of potential still for original, story-driven themes from LEGO.
CASTLE BEST THEME 🎉🎉🎉
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Had a Knight’s Kingdom themed birthday party for my 6th or 7th birthday, We had the invites, and I think there was some other themed party stuff too. Core memory for sure!
That sounds legendary honestly - what a party it must have been!
Dude, that is awesome! :D
That "weak spot" wall in Vladek's Dark Fortress is actually a sticker too...
It was certainly printed in my set! What country did you get your copy from? It could vary from region to region.
Nice that you brought up weight as a better value gauge. Excellent topic and video!
Appreciate it!
Man, I just love your videos.
Really appreciate it!
Knight’s Kingdom was my favorite theme at the time and I actually used the birthday invitations for my 6th birthday party!
Ayy, that's epic! Did your party have any of the other decorations?
@@CheeseyStudios I think we might’ve had plates and napkins. The highlight was getting out all the foam weaponry and whacking each other.
Thanks for this video , you convinced me to buy vladeck castle for 160 € its PERFECT almost new box and all and I love it
Awesome find! It's such an incredible set
On the Scorpion Prison Cave, I like how it has fences built as a portcullis.
NPU! 😉
Right? Super simple, but really sturdy and easy to build!
While I personally preferred 1 and 3, Vladek's fortress remains my favorite castle playset. It's huge and has lots of playfeatures.
I think it gets even better when you combine it with "Dark Fortress Landing".
You could create quite the complex between the Fortress, Prison Tower, and Landing! It was so epic.
Probably the best knight theme really had a good story
I agree. So underrated!
I really want to see you cover Wave III!!!! I had never even known that it existed before I was inspired to check Bricklink by your video!
I'm really excited to get to those too! Lots of fun sets and action figures.
I have absolutely loved every minute of your retrospectives on Knights Kingdom. It's not just the nostalgia talking, either; both the theme and your videos are top-notch excellence! 😊
The villain builds in this wave were the perfection of lego, going back to classic castle: big pieces that look great and speed up the building process with enough detail spread in that it looks good. Sets today are so arduous to put together and take so much time that it's daunting to reconfigure them, even though the freedom afforded by many more smaller pieces is so high.
I do believe somewhere in the last decade LEGO seems to have forgotten that they make TOYS lol... Yeah, I find myself missing the simplicity too. If I want a beautiful model, I'll make one myself. I feel like kids these days don't have the patience for these 500-1000 piece playsets.
can you revisit the atlantis line please? it was a my childhood, on every Christmas list, and it would bring back soo much nostalgia for me and others
It's on my to-do list, and the first part will hopefully come out in early fall!
Knight's Kingdom was my 3rd favorite right after Power Miners and Bionicle back in the day
Power Miners was so good too. There was no shortage of amazing themes to choose from back in the day!
Growing up, I had both the Battle Wagon and the King's Siege Tower from Wave 2. Kept me entertained for countless hours. 😊
Yes! So perfect for many, many epic LEGO battles
This was my favorite theme growing up. Thanks for allowing me to relive some good childhood memories 👍😊
So glad you enjoyed!
Yay, more moreeeee... Knights Kingdom 2 baby . Love it .. great job
Appreciate it, Grumpy
@@CheeseyStudios at Orlando brick co, there's a few I'm eyeing
I actually got a few of the wave three action figures from ABC when I was down there filming the LM Christmas special. It was good that I found them too, as some of them can be quite rare!
Will you also revisit Knights Kingdom 1? With Cedric the Bull?
Maybe one day. It was a bit before my time, so I don't own any of the sets unfortunately.
The bridge crossing alternate build is pretty remniscent of the similair 2006 set. Wonder if its based on an older prototype they already had created
That could be interesting! I wish LEGO was more open about some of their behind-the-scenes stuff.
Lego Knights Kingdom is one of the reasons along with Lord of the Rings that I love swords and knights to this day. Unfortunately I never owned any of the sets beyond one of the Knight figures, The King. But I avidly read the comics on the Lego website back in the day and played the web game.
The LEGO website used to be so much fun. I do miss those simpler days with all the Flash games...
As a kid, I was always a little bummed that Lego never made a generic good-guy knight. Especially since the shadow knights are all corrupted Kingdom knights. Could have made a cool transformation feature in a set (like the anakin to vader transformation in 2005)
Right?? The closest we got was the chess set, but that wasn't nearly as easy to find, or even desirable for most kids.
Very well made
Appreciate it!
New subscriber here ( Thanks to Jacob…Brickworld today ) Your videos are top notch, I’ll be watching regularly now 😊 I’m going to aspire to achieve your quality someday.
Ayyy, I'll have to send my brother a thank you xD Glad you found your way here!
As a child I had both castles of the Knights Kingdom Series, it was so awesome to play with them, I loved it! Then the dark fortress fell apart, because my father dropped it while making room for my brother's weight bench, which he never actually used :( but it's Lego, so I could rebuild it like I wanted to, good times :)
That is the beauty of LEGO! Still, that was probably pretty traumatic as a kid 😭
i was actually invited to a classmates birthday party, with one of those party invitations cards things, when i was a kid, i think
That's so epic lol!
Wait, he's my age. Now I get why I feel so similarly to so many of his reviews/revisits.
Exactly lol - you'll definitely be seeing more familiar themes in the future!
Your excitement for this series is so amazing to see. I really loved these sets, especially Vladek's fortress, which still holds the record for the longest time I've had a set without taking it apart. Glad you can enjoy it now as well!
Yesss! It's such a beauty. I wish everyone could experience it for themselves!
A shame you didnt show the alternate builds for vladeks castle that features an insane black galleon f.ex. i remember being mad as a child, that there werent instructions included for it
Let me know if you find pictures of it! I'd love to see this
@@CheeseyStudios I have the packaging at my parents home, i'll take some pictures if i remember it
Great vid, i see you’ve been puting a lot of work into it, still waiting for revisiting Harry potter part II
I spent a good 50 hours last week working on it! An early version is up now, and I'm hoping for a public release in June :) th-cam.com/video/MPXAQBiJml4/w-d-xo.html
@@CheeseyStudios ok thanks cheesy
I remember hearing about the knights on D Day. I'm pretty sure that was on the History channel
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Gosh, I absolutely ADORED that! Knights Kingdom has a really special place in my heart. I discovered it long after it had discontinued when I was little, and it was through bits and pieces of second hand Lego I got from multiple different people, most of the sets being incomplete. It always stuck out as a bit of an oddity to me for some reason, probably because I’d never heard of it and it felt like this strange elusive theme, but it had such a distinct feel and it’s become so nostalgic to me. There’s something about it that I can’t quite explain, but I just love it! You did a phenomenal job revisiting it, and I love hearing the excitement in your voice due to the nostalgia you have for this theme, it’s so wholesome. And along with the cozy and nostalgic feel of your videos it just makes for such an enjoy experience overall! As always, I love the work you do man. You’re a real gem in the community 🙌🏽🧡
Love all of these, but I think that design of heroes’ armor was done better in the first wave. The ornamental abstract design looks much cooler, especially for Vladek. Shields too, their symmetry is far more interesting for me.
That's very fair. I do think the theme lost a bit of the unique style that really set it apart in wave one. You see it with the much more straightforward castle design compared to Morcia
Another phenomenal video! LOVE the artistry with the presentation of the models and the way you describe the sets. Can’t wait for the next one!
Thank you, Chris!
Hey quick question. First of all excellent vid but are you every going to do a space police revisit? That stuff has some of the coolest figs and funniest story lol!!!
I do plan on doing at least wave 1! I think I have most of the sets at this point, just haven't put many together yet.
I suppose the knight's boat having the same design scheme as the castle is good cohesion but it does weirdly imply this sea worthy vessle is made of....stone
Indeed... 🤣
Speaking of knights, still hoping for a revisit for nexo knights someday
That could be cool!
Waiting for Battle at the pass!
Super excited to do the last two videos! There's some really cool sets in there, and the minifigures are awesome of course!
Price per weight sounds like a far better way to determine LEGO set values.
Price-per-piece is a pretty scuffed metric these days since sets are universally including smaller and smaller pieces. I'm really glad Bricklink records all the weights!
25:20 Oh I may be one of the few who has figured it out. Its been a while, so I don't recall exactly, but what I did was hold my finger on the cog firmly, with a bit of downward force, then roll the cog backwards with as much speed as you can whilst maintaining a bit of said downward force. When you get it right, its insanely powerful, more so than the spring launcher. Not the most intuitive design, but definitely definitely a fun one. I remember rolling it so hard that the "toothed plate" piece would jam up in the front against the cheese slope.
Alright, I'm gonna have to give it another go lol! Thanks for the tips!
I hope they remake this.
That would be legendary
Amazing video! I also used to have the foam swords and Vladek mask, awesome stuff
Glad you got to experience those for yourself! I love the random stuff LEGO makes like that.
What would make the shadow knights better would be to have them not have the classic yellow heads and instead have blank black heads with angry red eyes, kind of like the knight from Lego Scooby Doo. It would help match the original pictures of the evil characters.
Ooh, yeah! Kinda like the Basil from the CMF line or something.
@@CheeseyStudios CMF?
@@Jaymat_flix Collectible Mini Figures - the blind bag ones :)
Awesome video!! I can’t wait for the third wave!!👍💯🔥
Thank you! I'm really excited to cover the next batch of sets, too :)
Honestly, I feel like I tend to disagree with a lot of modern afols on the things they complain about. While obviously I do enjoy building Lego sets, playing with and displaying them was always my favorite part, so the “juniorization” thing people talk about is something I actually kind of miss in a lot of newer sets. Precisely putting on a million 1x1 plates in slightly different colors to create details that would’ve just been a sticker in 2007 I find kind of tedious. The way everything is tiled off now so minifigures can’t easily stand on most surfaces without falling over is a big annoyance to me. While I do understand the value of wanting a “realistic” look, the fact is that Lego is a toy. If I wanted something super realistic, I could buy a sculpted/painted model kit or scale replica that would be much more realistic than even the most complicated modern Lego set. To me, the benefit of buying a Lego castle instead of train set scale model of one IS the fact you can play with it. I think that element of playability and fun, while still present in some modern sets, is tragically less common these days. Although, I was always a god at cleanly applying stickers even as a kid, so maybe my point of view is biased.
LEGO straying further and further from toymaking is my #1 gripe with the company. Makes me glad I was able to grow up with sets like these!
@@CheeseyStudios I definitely agree. I kind of feel like City and Creator the last bastions of old-school, “fun” Lego in the modern era. That said, the brand has gone through so many changes and experiments in its history that I still have hope they’ll eventually they’ll circle back around to in-house themes and playable sets again. After all, if they can go from wooden ashtrays to Galidor, anything is possible.
Im still looking to get both vladek big figures. And the minifigure
What if I told you there are 3 Vladek big action figures 👀
dude you HAVE to cover the final wave
I definitely will! I've just got a few more to rebuild
The fact almost the entire wave was dedicated to the villains is unheard of with todays LEGO and this is something I think they should do more rotate waves for each side in Star Wars, Dreamzzz, Ninjago etc also it is possible to find the dark fortress landing by itself but it’s very hard to find these days
Agreed! Bad guy stuff is always so cool 😂
I still have my 8877 Vladek's Dark Fortress set and it's 99.9999999999% complete. One of the red rubber bands for the drawbridge has gone missing. I'll probably just get a replacement off of Bricklink if I ever get round to it.
Also, when are you going to cover the Lego Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets 2002 wave?
That battering ram is uhh…yeah
lolol
I have most of a copy of this set, including that side build ballista. I believe at 25:56 you demonstrated pretty much exactly how it's supposed to work. It's very finnicky but basically you hold the ballista in place and run your finger over the wheel which should propel the projectile forward. Difficult to make it go far. If I can get a good demonstration with my decrepit copy I could upload!
When do you plan on doing the end for your Lego minecraft World
I have no plans to do the End, but I hope you enjoyed this video!
Another great video, love this series!
Thank you!
I find it funny that Lego, who always claimed to be very anti-military in their designs, just made a D-Day deployment boat the king's attack barge
The Knights Kingdom line is over all a really cool line up in general and gives much room for more Medieval based stories for kids., and really could go a long way probably if it made a third resurgence, hell make them cameo with Ninjago.
i fucking love this channel
I love to hear it xD
Really nice shirt I have to say !
Ha! Thank you! It was a really fun gift from my sister. I had to bring it into a video as soon as possible lol
cannot wait for the Third Wave,by far,my favorite of the theme,and a lot of that has to do with my boy Jayco getting a kingly makeover!
I'm excited to cover it too! There's some really cool stuff in the final wave
I absolutely love these sets and I think you did them justice. I do a lot of moc building and you have just made me want to do a knights kingdom moc so badly. Can’t wait for wave 3!
I'm so excited to cover wave three too! The action figures are so cool
The dark red horse armor was also in the first year's Vladek Encounter set, its even on the thumbnail of the old video!
edit: The blue horse helmet was in the previous year's polybag ballista as well
lol someone said the same thing - I'm talking about the hitching! www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=2397&in=S
I actually like the 2004-05 Knights Kingdom-line a lot.
I don't like the big action-figures. I don't think the actual sets are that great either. But the minifigs are fantastic! I like that there are very unique sub-divisons of the "classic" Lion Kingdom, and one of them is a traitor and the villain of the story.
The story is kinda meh, but I like to see it as "building pieces" to sort of make my own lore when building MOCs. Its like, using pieces to do world-building like you would to build lego... I can totally imagine each of the knights having their own region of the kingdom and their own little castle and stuff.
I just wished they focused more on minifigs and less on the buildings and vehicles. Or that they sold actual battle-packs for this, like they do with Star Wars
Castle battle packs are always great. Some random knights to join our heroes would have been a very useful addition to the theme!
@@CheeseyStudios Yess! I would have been happy with just some generic "King's army-soldier" to be the good guy-version of the Shadow Knights, tbh. But getting different soldier types would have been amazing.
Too bad the King Mathew-minifig probably is extremely expensive these days. His torso would be perfect for like, medieval foot soldiers.
Hmm this video ended in an extra posivite way with your narration sytle. I guess needed it, thanks.
Man, I really appreciate you bringing up the weight of Vladek's Fortress. Price-per-mass of a LEGO set has always been my go-to metric and it's nice to see others use it and not just drone on about price per part.
Price per part is just so out of whack these days when half the parts are 1x1 plates 😂 Another good metric has always been Jangbrick's, which is based purely on "vibes" lol
@CheeseyStudios yea, I've always agreed with Jang's vibes approach, though I do think the detail inherent in the more recent sets with tons of tiny pieces works for me.
The thing where the good guys are shown as having an army and using it effectively is honestly something you don’t see all that often in modern media. Wish we got a bunch more generic minifigs for that.
Agreed. The only set that came with good army building figures was the wave one chess set.
Engraçado que estes shadow kinght são os mesmos que os cavaleiros negros dos sets do Lego Castle, tirando as olheiras é claro. Quando as minifigures se repetem muito procuro misturar com outras skins, mudando a roupa, cabelo e barba quando possível, ou simplesmente transformo elas em clone truppers!!! ahahahah!
I was pretty little when this theme came out, but I was lucky enough to have Vladek's Dark Fortress. I still have a decent amount of the pieces in storage, and I have the knights proudly diplayed on my wall.
It just doesn't get better than the Dark Fortress - what an incredible castle!
The print on rascus body armor almost killed me ...
Fireball Catapult is one of my favorite Castle themed sets ever. I didn't need to be invested in the story, it was just a nice little build, a couple of well designed knights with color scheme implied alignment of good and evil, and a horse.
Small sets honestly go so hard sometimes. It had everything you needed here!
I found those exact birthday cards but for Bionicle 2004 at a goodwill. It's cool to see Lego did this for other lines.
That's so epic! I miss silly little things like that honestly
I think, simple to no interiours is not a bad choice. For example I have vladeks fortress and the cafe corner and I filled both with my parts collection and a bit of creativity.
For sure, but I would have loved to have seen what the designers came up with too!
22:00 Exposed!
gotten
what piece is used for the catapult in the sail barge? The top brown one kinda looks like a wheel?
Weirdly enough. it was originally designed to be a hockey puck lol! www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=47576&in=S
@@CheeseyStudios Ahhhh neat, thank you good sir
Scorpion prison cave and The Batwing: The Joker's Aerial Assault were my first sets
Very nice! There were so many good sets in these years.
As to the weight, wouldn’t the BURPs and LURPs inflate the weight while reducing piece count? I’ve never known how to feel about those dark gray sloped rock prints.
That's kind of the beauty of this style though - using BURPs helps keep the cost way down. Building the same rock formation out of basic bricks would be significantly heavier while creating the same effect