Random set of the day: Lord Vladek
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8795 Lord Vladek, released during 2005. It's one of 30 Castle sets produced that year. It contains 44 pieces, and its retail price was US$9/£5.99.
It's owned by 1,467 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $13.30, or eBay.
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Vladek seems to be getting a lot of attention from Huwbot. His "dark" fortress was RSotD not that long ago! He has also been chosen twice for RMotD too!
Lord Dladek
I'll never understand how anyone could read a font like that.
And while his dark fortress is still on the sidebar!
All hail Johnny Thunder, um, I mean Vladek!
Oh this! One of my bros had this when we were kids. :-)
Oof, not much demand for these. Real, I tend to get behind super quirky widget sets but this isn’t one of them.
Now THIS guy knows colour-matching.
I got his castle. Did he really have eyes like that?
@MCLegoboy said:
"Lord Dladek
I'll never understand how anyone could read a font like that."
*you mean "Lord Oladek"
@MCLegoboy said:
"Lord Dladek
I'll never understand how anyone could read a font like that."
I've lived my entire life in Michigan. I don't see the problem.
Deep into my dark ages, I came across a LEGO brand store for the first time while shopping at the Paramus Mall just north of New York City. Hankering for some nostalgia from my youth and excited to learn that such a store existed, I went in and saw these Knight’s Kingdom sets. I immediately walked out and went back into my dark ages cave for another four years.
Does Lord Vladek like shiny gold rings? He looks like he likes shiny gold rings.
@Librarian1976 said:
"I immediately walked out and went back into my dark ages cave for another four years."
They were also TLG's dark ages.
The large scaled KK2 figures suffered from two major problems. The first, having ratchet joint ankles, as opposed to ball an socket joints, made posing them difficult and annoying.
The second problem, is that none were Blacktron. they were all medieval knights. No spacemen, and certainly no trans neon green visors.
Oh, and a third problem was their visors. Lego very much should have put a little axle hole connector on the inside so you could use them as Bionicle masks. Like the Vlad mask here. IT FITS SO PERFECTLY ON A METRU HEAD! WHY DOESN'T IT HAVE AN AXLE CONNECTION! ARRRRGGGHHH!
I've got the better ballista variant with cape and more metallic detailing, but he's just such a cool villain.
"Arise Lord Vladek"...sorry, but he's just got that 'vibe' about him :)
Not sure, but I think he's a villian... :D
@MCLegoboy said:
"Lord Dladek
I'll never understand how anyone could read a font like that."
lord dadek? his evil power is telling dad jokes. defeats his enemies by saying: "hi hungry im dad"
I liked the Knights Kingdom theme, but these action figures were weird. Didn't really fit into anything, barely any parts that could be reused and generally felt inferior to Bionicle.
@Arnoldos said:
"I liked the Knights Kingdom theme, but these action figures were weird. Didn't really fit into anything, barely any parts that could be reused and generally felt inferior to Bionicle."
Yes, but on the flip-side, they had some system parts and excellent, human-like articulation and posability. On the whole, not the worst. Certainly not Galidor.
I used to own this one, as all 2005 KKII figures were given to me by my nephew at one point. I eventually sold them. They are some of the few sets I don't feel like getting back. They looked cool and the color schemes and armoring were vastly superior to the 2004 ones. But I never got attached to these ones. And I'd have to get all 6 again.
Fun fact: unlike the 2004 torsos, all 2005 torsos have a unique action feature. Some have the lever move the arm up, some sideways, some have two levers and Sir Santis even has the entire upper torso rotate a bit.
I recall Lord Vladek having one lever that makes the shoulder move back and forward, which only did something if the arm is splayed outward or forward. If it's straight down the arm just wobbles side to side like he's pointing the sword to something else.
Compared to the character's other iterations, Vladek really shows a nice evolution from being a rogue knight with agenda (8774/8786) to becoming an evil overlord (8702), complete with an evil cape and ballista.
@iwybs said:
"Does Lord Vladek like shiny gold rings? He looks like he likes shiny gold rings."
I think he’s more into crowns…and magical shield fragments.
You’re a week late, Vladek, we had your fortress on the 21st!
@emQ said:
" @Librarian1976 said:
"I immediately walked out and went back into my dark ages cave for another four years."
They were also TLG's dark ages."
There were so many things I saw in that store that turned me off to returning to LEGO, chief among them BIONICLE. Between that theme and this theme, pretty much all that I saw were constraction figures. It wasn’t LEGO in the traditional System sense and it was a huge turn off.
@Librarian1976 said:
" @emQ said:
" @Librarian1976 said:
"I immediately walked out and went back into my dark ages cave for another four years."
They were also TLG's dark ages."
There were so many things I saw in that store that turned me off to returning to LEGO, chief among them BIONICLE. Between that theme and this theme, pretty much all that I saw were constraction figures. It wasn’t LEGO in the traditional System sense and it was a huge turn off.
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That was the age of the action figure not only in Lego but in all other toy companies. I never really bought into the whole bionicle hero factory thing but pretty much stuck with system parts and sets over time though I have collected quite a lot of Lego’s build able figures from yard sales consignment sales and out of people’s attics. I have this guy and his fortress. Rescued him from someone’s attic along with the fortress that wasn’t even fully built. Never really cared for this guy though his arm that moved kept falling off and was a annoying trying to keep putting it back on.
@Brickalili said:
"You’re a week late, Vladek, we had your fortress on the 21st!"
But consider the scale difference. It takes a while to march from a distance where you appear minifig-sized to one where you look this big.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili said:
"You’re a week late, Vladek, we had your fortress on the 21st!"
But consider the scale difference. It takes a while to march from a distance where you appear minifig-sized to one where you look this big."
Aaaaand now I’m imagining the Lancelot running scene from Monty Python’s Holy Grail but with Vladek
@Billbuilds said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Lord Dladek
I'll never understand how anyone could read a font like that."
lord dadek? his evil power is telling dad jokes. defeats his enemies by saying: "hi hungry im dad""
Lord Dadek, the mortal enemy of My Dad
@Somestalgia said:
" @Billbuilds said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Lord Dladek
I'll never understand how anyone could read a font like that."
lord dadek? his evil power is telling dad jokes. defeats his enemies by saying: "hi hungry im dad""
Lord Dadek, the mortal enemy of My Dad"
Mortal enemy, or perhaps ancestor? Kinda like how all of Biff Tannen's ancestors are basically just him in different costumes.