I bought this one because I wanted purple pieces, which I had none.

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@PurpleDave:
Ah...but I also know something you do not know. I too am not left-handed! And those were NOT my high school colors...mine were redder (maroon actually:)) My hair's lighter as well:)

As for the set: don't have it...but I have part from it. Even tried to convert it torso into a body for a vehicle (ironically for 71007-9 Jester...hope that worked...)

This premise feels like A1 generated a LEGO set idea

Castle?
When I saw the small preview image I thought it was Bionicle.
;-)

Got a set of all of these in a pile somewhere,
I really need to investigate how Ebay works and get them to someone who will actually value them.

Knight's Kingdom 2 was a theme I had a weird relationship with, I got all the figures from the first wave, even King Mathias (his cape may be somewhere in my Bionicle parts bin) but only one set, then the second wave comes around and I got one figure and the majority of the sets.
Wave three I didn't pay any attention at all, 2006 was just way too good a year for Bionicle for anything else to be on my radar.

Fun fact, when sourcing parts for my Venator MOC by Anio, I needed some certain dark red parts and found the easiest way to get them was to buy a used copy of 8877. I found one dirt cheap on ebay. It may not have been 100% complete, but it came with all the pieces I was looking for, plus all the minifigs.
That's why I have a Knight's Kingdom II set even though the theme happened during my dark ages.

@TheOtherMike said:
"If @PurpleDave were a medieval knight."
I don’t normally give my minifigures names, but for some reason I decided this one 71032-11 is called Dave. No idea why :~P

@whiteghost said:
"Out of the four original knights, I think Danju had the most striking color scheme - pity the yellow became muted in later years. I also very much appreciated that non-physical attributes or strong suits were features in a toyline aimed primarily at children: while the others were fast/strong/agile, Danju was "just" wise. This felt refreshing."

He was also the oldest, as I recall, while Jayko (speed?) was the youngest. So they may have bucked one trope, but they still played into a few.

Got a new version just 1 year later with 8791 Sir Danju .

Minifig variants match the bigger ones , at least in terms of chest armour print.

2004 - https://brickset.com/minifigs/cas262/knights-kingdom-ii-danju
2005 - https://brickset.com/minifigs/cas269/knights-kingdom-ii-danju-with-gold-pattern-armor-dark-bluish-gray-hips-and-helmet

Nexo Knight Axl was basicly the modern purple/yellow knight, along with his bots.
https://brickset.com/minifigs/nex069/axl-trans-neon-orange-visor-flat-silver-torso
https://brickset.com/minifigs/nex094/axl-bot-dark-bluish-gray-shoulders-bright-light-orange-helmet

But they never really put any purple into his color schemes (year 2 had purple lightning monsters too, and Jestro was yellow/purple already during that time ) https://brickset.com/minifigs/nex087/jestro-bright-light-orange-and-dark-purple

My favourite of the KK2 Knights! Not my first... I actually didn't get Danju here (or rather, 8770, the European version, which seems to have been identical except for not including the game cards) until my fourth. But I don't know, something about him just clicked with me more than the others. Not only was he the most uncommon colour and had perhaps the coolest emblem, I just really liked the way he was portrayed in the comics particularly. He was kind of the wise mentor of the group (his superpower was even wisdom, after all) but seemed no less physically active than the others when it counted, and I just found that cool.

He *was*, however, the first of the hero knight who I got as a minifigure, since 8777 was my first KK2 minifig-scale set, so there's that at least...!

Also, since no-one's said it yet: (Semi-)quick lore is that four hero knights are on a quest to find a magical artefact - the Heart of the Shield of Ages - to overthrow the king's villainous advisor. Said advisor, Vladek, had secretly kidnapped the king and in due course, after claiming that he had done everything in his power to find the missing monarch, went on to announce a tournament to decide the new ruler of Morcia... a tournament that he planned to rig with his own magical artefact, the Book of Morcia. The Heart of the Shield was needed to give a hero knight a fighting chance of beating Vladek at his own game, which Jayko ultimately managed to achieve.

Danju, as already noted, was the oldest and wisest of the team and as such the leader. He took on something of a mentor role to the other Knights too, particularly young Jayko; and in fact, when he retired from active fighting by the theme's third year, a background appearance in one of the comics showed that he became a full-time trainer for the next generation of Knights, Adric and Kentis, too.

so nostalgic for KK2. Vladek still remains one of the best Lego villains of all time

Fun fact: According to LEGO, Ogel (villain of Alpha Team) is a distant descendent of Lord Vladek. (the villain from KK2)

@Murdoch17 said:
"Fun fact: According to LEGO, Ogel (villain of Alpha Team) is a distant descendent of Lord Vladek. (the villain from KK2)"

Any word on if the Adventurers villains (who Lego was never consistent with the names of) or the Brickster are on that family tree?

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
"Fun fact: According to LEGO, Ogel (villain of Alpha Team) is a distant descendent of Lord Vladek. (the villain from KK2)"

Any word on if the Adventurers villains (who Lego was never consistent with the names of) or the Brickster are on that family tree?"

the Brickster, at least, is not related to anybody as he's an artificial being. From what I recall of Lego Island 2's info booklet: The Brickster was created by the Infomaniac as one of his first creations but went rogue when Infomanic wanted to make other things / play with other people.

...I could be wrong about all that, though. It's been a hot minute since I last played the game in 2000.

@PurpleDave said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"If @PurpleDave were a medieval knight."

I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed! But those were indeed my high school colors. My hair looks a lot darker, though.

Seriously, though, all of these giant jelly-bean knights ended up being left-handed because most kids are, ironically, right-handed. When you hold the character in your dominant hand and use your thumb to actuate the sword attack, if the character is attacking with the same hand that you're holding them with, it's just going to whack you on the knuckles. Flip it to the other arm, and it clears your fingertips on the other side."

Which was a problem for a left-handed kid like me. One big reason I never really got into KK2, unlike Bionicle, is that you couldn't take apart the torso and switch it from left-handed to right-handed, like you could with the Toa Mata/Nuva. So whenever I played with Santis, it was just whack, whack, whack with his sword hand on my knuckles. Ouch!

@Binnekamp said:
"It gets grating to hear 'jelly bean knights' every. single. time. this line of sets, Knights Kingdom II or even Knights Kingdom I are mentioned."

What, you got something against jellybeans? I didn't come up with the term, but I've known them by that since the first wave of sets was announced. I don't know if I could have told you that they were also called KK2, and I would absolutely have to look KK1 up before I could tell you what that involved. The reason we don't refer to Ninjago this way (besides the fact that it's basically comparable to Bionicle now, in terms of how successful it has become) is because when the first images hit the internet, only two things really got any attention. The first is that "they're bringing Ninja back", which clearly wasn't a very accurate read on the situation. And the second is "there's a blue ninja". Why blue? Because the Ninja theme already had red, black, and white ninjas, along with dark-grey and green, so blue was really the only stand-out color in the group. Plus, half of the original Ninjago ninja were black and white, so not exactly a riot of color compared to the combination of red/green/dark-purple/medium-blue.