Random figure of the day: vik038
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random figure is vik038 Viking Warrior - Male, Medium Nougat Leather Armor, Dark Orange Beard and Legs, Flat Silver Helmet, a Vikings figure that came in one set, 31132 Viking Ship and the Midgard Serpent, released during 2022.
Our members collectively own a total of 7,306 of them. If you'd like to buy one you should find it for sale at Brick Owl or BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $6.20.
Image and data courtesy of BrickLink.com
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I have two copies of 31132. I built the main model and the Viking house build. It looks great on display alongside 21343.
Obligatory comment number one: Vikings didn't have horns on their helmets.
Obligatory comment number two: "Kill da wabbit..."
Real Vikings didn’t have horned helmets.
Of course, real Vikings also didn’t fight giant sea monsters believed to be the offspring of one of their gods.
Kinda wish they would bring Vikings back, they were cool :)
WAIT VIKINGS DIDN'T HAVE HORNS ON THERE HELMETS WHAT!?!?
Nice to meet you Vik, how are your 37 older brothers?
I love how creator has been revisiting old themes and giving us fun playsets. I never got the set due to it being out of my small(and now much smaller) Lego budget, but I certainly enjoyed it from afar. It also spawned a fair number of delightful mocs which are always fun to see!
Tell me some more about Viking-helmets not having horns while I frantically search for EVEN MORE AND BIGGER HORNS to add to this helmet. Speak up! I can't hear you! My searching is too frantic!
At least this guy uses the rubbery horn type. Trying to find period-accurate hard plastic horns for my second-hand viking sets that had many of the 2010-onward rubbery type is a pain. Bricklink doesn't even make the distinction!
Nice fig btw. The set is nice but I feel lime they tried to shoe-horn it into the Creator mold too much. And the posing on that Midgard Serpent is s travesty.
@Crux said:
"Tell me some more about Viking-helmets not having horns while I frantically search for EVEN MORE AND BIGGER HORNS to add to this helmet. Speak up! I can't hear you! My searching is too frantic!"
Please. I already did that in 2022. Dinosaur tails and hockey sticks aren’t even the largest ones I came up with.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Crux said:
"Tell me some more about Viking-helmets not having horns while I frantically search for EVEN MORE AND BIGGER HORNS to add to this helmet. Speak up! I can't hear you! My searching is too frantic!"
Please. I already did that in 2022. Dinosaur tails and hockey sticks aren’t even the largest ones I came up with."
WHAT? SORRY, WHAT? I CAN'T... YOU'LL NEED TO HIPSTER-POSE LOUDER! MY SEARCHING, IT IS TOO FRANTIC! MY HORNS, TOO BIG AND PLENTIFUL!
@PurpleDave said:
" @Crux said:
"Tell me some more about Viking-helmets not having horns while I frantically search for EVEN MORE AND BIGGER HORNS to add to this helmet. Speak up! I can't hear you! My searching is too frantic!"
Please. I already did that in 2022. Dinosaur tails and hockey sticks aren’t even the largest ones I came up with."
Like when you didn't limit yourself to individual pieces stuck into the helmet holes, but full-on constructions? https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.php?i=6750254
This is where it becomes mandatory to google the Danish Road Safety council ‘Helmet ad, partly because it’s funny & partly because the Danes do know what Viking helmets looked like….
I wonder if he likes Spam, Spam, Spam, Spammity Spam?
@TheOtherMike said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Crux said:
"Tell me some more about Viking-helmets not having horns while I frantically search for EVEN MORE AND BIGGER HORNS to add to this helmet. Speak up! I can't hear you! My searching is too frantic!"
Please. I already did that in 2022. Dinosaur tails and hockey sticks aren’t even the largest ones I came up with."
Like when you didn't limit yourself to individual pieces stuck into the helmet holes, but full-on constructions? https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.php?i=6750254"
Yup, that's the stuff. This year, I'll be able to rebuild those ones the way I actually wanted to in the first place, and I've already got other horns set aside to upgrade some of the less impressive ones from before.
@ecleme11 said:
"I wonder if he likes Spam, Spam, Spam, Spammity Spam?"
It's better than spam, baked beans, sausage, egg, and spam!
It's funny Huwbot picked this fig today, as yesterday Disney's Atlantis the Lost Empire celebrated it's 25 anniversary. The original (deleted) opening scene was set on a Viking ship with a guy who looks a bit like this!
He seems to have very hairy legs.
@Graupensuppe said:
"He seems to have very hairy legs."
No, you're thinking of Ragnar.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Graupensuppe said:
"He seems to have very hairy legs."
No, you're thinking of Ragnar."
Doesn't Ragnar rock?
@TheOtherMike said:
"Obligatory comment number one: Vikings didn't have horns on their helmets."
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that even though Viking helmets were not in possession of good horns, they would have looked much better with them.
We may thus be thankful that this historical accuracy has been corrected.
@Rimefang said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Graupensuppe said:
"He seems to have very hairy legs."
No, you're thinking of Ragnar."
Doesn't Ragnar rock?"
Eh, depends on whether Marvel got involved or not.