Random set of the day: Sir Kentis
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Today's random set is 8703 Sir Kentis, released in 2006. It's one of 11 Castle sets produced that year. It contains 43 pieces, and its retail price was US$10/£5.99.
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Everyone beware of the speckled knight.
He appears to know karate
Definitely one of the weirder constraction figure lines, but I really like these. I love Bionicle, but these are much closer to how I would’ve expected a Lego action figure to look.
I wanna see that dragon as a set scaled to this guy. Good to know he can still do martial arts in his impossibly heavy armor.
@Your_Future_President said:
"I wanna see that dragon as a set scaled to this guy. Good to know he can still do martial arts in his impossibly heavy armor. "
That’s not a dragon, that’s one of the Gargoyle heads from 8822.
I don't like the way that guy's looking at me...
Heck yeah this was such a fun line.
Ooh! Shiny!!!
I suppose there’s a reason why, for the final year of Knights Kingdom 2, the original Jelly Bean Knights got tossed and the king started hanging around with these Jelly Belly Knights instead. I’m just not sure I care what that reason is...
Unique:
Sir Kentis Action figure head print in dark tan x1
54181 large figure shield, pearl gold horse relief in dark green x1
54169 large figure visor in speckle metallic silver x1
54182 large figure torso with chain mail print in dark green x1
47432 2x3 brick with click socket connections in dark tan x2
47452 2x2 brick with click socket connections in dark tan x2
Rare:
54937 large figure shin guard in pearl light grey x2
47430 large figure foot with click socket in dark green x2
55010 large figure shoulder guard in speckle metallic silver x2
47432 2x3 brick with click socket connections in dark green x2
47431 2x2 brick with click socket connection and axle hand in dark green x2
^Yea, it’s just royalty.
An odd time to be a Castle fan, I’d imagine.
Despite loving old images of the theme in catalogues and retrospective books, I never got around to reading any KKII comics or playing the videogame and only have surface level knowledge of the theme.
If I remember right Sir Kentis was one of two knights from foreign kingdoms who came to help our main cast during the second year of the theme, but don't quote me on that 'cause I literally can't remember.
Really need to actually look into the lore at some point, KKII was the second true "Big Bang" theme proceeded by BIONICLE and succeeded by Exo Force so there's a lot of plot to dig into.
These sets have a tendency to show up as 1 or 2 random body parts in sets of loose parts.
Like random pieces and then an arm and head (with damaged printing).
Lots of stuffy Lego fans didn't like these constructable figures but my boys were 10, 8 and 5 at the time and they loved the theme, interchanging parts. Plus, they had a "track wheel" in the back to make one arm chop the sword up and down. Good fun for boys!
@Mr__Thrawn said:
"He appears to know karate"
I agree
I care nothing about the figures but love collecting the huge shields!
I wonder how many flesh wounds he can go through.
@ClassicDragon said:
"These sets have a tendency to show up as 1 or 2 random body parts in sets of loose parts.
Like random pieces and then an arm and head (with damaged printing)."
That's exactly how I found 8706 Karzon (well, he was a bit more complete than that, missing his shield and head IIRC)
@Graymattr said:
"Lots of stuffy Lego fans didn't like these constructable figures but my boys were 10, 8 and 5 at the time and they loved the theme, interchanging parts. Plus, they had a "track wheel" in the back to make one arm chop the sword up and down. Good fun for boys!"
Yeah I didn't really know what to do with it but the boys sure liked it, and that wheel to have an arm move up and down was fun (although it didn't really work that well with Karzon's flail it still made the thing move more or less menacingly so mission accomplished) ;-)
The name of this set is the first half of a sentence. What is the second half?
Sir Kentis...
...unavailable this evening due to a slight headache
...only able to remove his helmet for his true love.
...full of loathing for those Black Falcon scum.
...looking for his oil can. Oil can.
@Galaxy12_Import said:
"Unique:
Sir Kentis Action figure head print in dark tan x1
54181 large figure shield, pearl gold horse relief in dark green x1
54169 large figure visor in speckle metallic silver x1
54182 large figure torso with chain mail print in dark green x1
47432 2x3 brick with click socket connections in dark tan x2
47452 2x2 brick with click socket connections in dark tan x2
Rare:
54937 large figure shin guard in pearl light grey x2
47430 large figure foot with click socket in dark green x2
55010 large figure shoulder guard in speckle metallic silver x2
47432 2x3 brick with click socket connections in dark green x2
47431 2x2 brick with click socket connection and axle hand in dark green x2"
Knight's Kingdom II sure is a treasure trove as far as parts go...
So I remember the four original knights of this theme all had a specific trait (the strong one, the quick one etc), what was Kentis’ thing?
@PurpleDave said:
"I suppose there’s a reason why, for the final year of Knights Kingdom 2, the original Jelly Bean Knights got tossed and the king started hanging around with these Jelly Belly Knights instead. I’m just not sure I care what that reason is..."
blue knight from series 2 became king for last series, others most likely retired from duty
@PurpleDave said:
"I suppose there’s a reason why, for the final year of Knights Kingdom 2, the original Jelly Bean Knights got tossed and the king started hanging around with these Jelly Belly Knights instead. I’m just not sure I care what that reason is..."
One of the original four Jelly Bean Knights *became* the king of the third wave. Another - Danju the Wise/the Purple/the Wolf (titles interchangeable, honestly!) - was seen briefly in the comics training the two new knights, while the other two of the original wave... yeah, I think they retired or something, like @FinBrick says.
Though honestly, I'm still clueless on *why* Jayko (the Swift/the Blue/the Hawk) became king in the first place. I mean, he had saved the day for two years in a row, but surely there ought to have been a royal lineage to follow, rather than Mathias just handing off the crown to any old knight who'd saved the kingdom a few times?
Unless Jayko was Mathias' son in secret, or something? In the original year's wave, they did use the same sword design where all the other knights had unique pieces, as well as having the same shaped shields, and both having armour in different shades of blue. I have no idea if that was canon or not, but it makes some sense to me ^^
(Did the comics for the third year ever make it onto the website, for that matter? I have full screencaps of the ones from year one and two, but don't recall ever seeing the year three story get added.)
Onto the set itself... I thought the third wave of Knights' Kingdom figures looked suitably cool, with their new helmet moulds (something wave two had lacked), new characters, and greater variety in weapons. My initial intent was to get at least Kentis and Adric, but... somehow they didn't hold my interest long enough to do so. The only one I ever ended up getting was Dracus, the seeming most boring of the four, as the only one not to have a new style of weapon.
I really don't like this box art, and the set itself is probably not the best
@Darth_Studhilus said:
"I really don't like this box art, and the set itself is probably not the best"
That isn't the box art, that's how the instructions cover looks. The actual Box Art doesn't showcase those comics.
An interesting thing regarding the third wave of KKII, though, was its use of metal canisters instead of the usual plastic canisters. That was a really unique packaging style that LEGO has never used again since...
One thing nobody here has mentioned that's particularly interesting about the action figures from this last year of the theme is that instead of plastic canisters, these ones came in cylindrical tins! It was certainly an unusual packaging style for Lego, but it did make them stand out.
Things like this are why I sometimes regret the lack of alternate pictures (including packaging pics) for these kinds of older sets. Not that that's any fault of Brickset's—it's unfortunate that older files of official pictures can be so hard to track down.