Random set of the day: Karzon
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8706 Karzon, released during 2006. It's one of 11 Castle sets produced that year. It contains 44 pieces, and its retail price was US$9.99/£5.99.
It's owned by 931 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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So lore time... I... uhm... I don't even remember this guy. I'm like 80% sure he's one of the evil knights Lord Valdek brainwashed to attack our heroes in the later years but I'm not positive. I really need to hunt down a copy of that Knights Kingdom II game and the comics one of these days. It's such a big chunk of lore I'm just missing.
Karzon is not the same as Karzahni
But you never know, there could be a theory here...
Box art is... messy to say the least
If you think this is bad you should see his twin brother Truxon.
Gotta love those technic-compatible armor pieces from Knights Kingdom 2 in unusual colors, so useful for Bionicle MOCs needing some more metallic and armor-y pieces. No idea about the actual figure here, I just see some useful parts.
@Mr__Thrawn said:
"Box art is... messy to say the least"
95% sure the image is actually from the instruction manuals. These figures originally came in a canister, like the Bionicle line.
These figures were pretty cool. Didn't have this particular one, but they felt quite nice. Bionicle was far more interesting in construction though.
@Shadowcloner said:
"95% sure the image is actually from the instruction manuals."
You're probably right. That explains it somewhat, I imagine the inset panels are action shots printed on the back of the canister.
@Shadowcloner said:
" @Mr__Thrawn said:
"Box art is... messy to say the least"
95% sure the image is actually from the instruction manuals. These figures originally came in a canister, like the Bionicle line.
These figures were pretty cool. Didn't have this particular one, but they felt quite nice. Bionicle was far more interesting in construction though. "
I remember getting one of these for Christmas. It was a very nice metal canister.
@GSR_MataNui
https://www.mikerayhawk.com/knights_kingdom.htm
Enjoy.
Curzon was a joined Trill and the seventh host of the Dax symbiont from 2286 to 2367. Curzon led a very long and full life, having lived past his 100th birthday. According to Jadzia, Curzon was known to fall in love with someone new every week and he was romantically involved with members of several species, such as with Tavana's mother, Enina Tandro, as well as Arandis. He was a top ambassador of the Federation in the late 2280s and the 2290s. Curzon died of strain incurred while seeking jamaharon on Risa with Arandis in 2367. His final days were spent in a hospital room yelling at the doctors and friends who were trying to keep him alive. He finally died as his family assembled at his bedside, as the symbiont was removed and implanted in a new host.
Wait ... wrong lore. Oops.
Ripped straight out of the Lord of the Rings.
@GSR_MataNui said:
"So lore time... I... uhm... I don't even remember this guy. I'm like 80% sure he's one of the evil knights Lord Valdek brainwashed to attack our heroes in the later years but I'm not positive. I really need to hunt down a copy of that Knights Kingdom II game and the comics one of these days. It's such a big chunk of lore I'm just missing. "
As far as I remember, that game was from 2004, so the four newer knights (which Karzon is one of) were not in it.
Karzon! Karzoff! Karzon, Karzoff, the Karzer!
Ah, the Karzon, one of the elusive theoretical elementary particles they look for at the Large Hadron Collider
@Mr__Thrawn said:
" @Shadowcloner said:
"95% sure the image is actually from the instruction manuals."
You're probably right. That explains it somewhat, I imagine the inset panels are action shots printed on the back of the canister."
I actually do own this set, and I can confirm that that particular "messy" image was only on the instructions. The metal canister had none of those comic images on it, just a image of the set itself and some of the other sets from the line on the back.
I honestly quite love this guy. Such a cool and intimidating fantasy design that looks like it came straight out of LotR or GoT. And it comes with so many useful pieces which I have used numerous times for my fantasy MOCs. Here is one of my MOCs I made using the parts from this set:
https://flic.kr/p/2muVyaQ
It should not be a surprise to learn that a guy looking like that is in fact the bad guy
Not my thing but the second batch of "knights" was way better than the first.
@watcher21 said:
"Not my thing but the second batch of "knights" was way better than the first."
This is the third batch. As I kid, I much preferred the colourful nature of the earlier ones, but I appreciate the cool metallic pieces now.
@GSR_MataNui said:
"So lore time... I... uhm... I don't even remember this guy. I'm like 80% sure he's one of the evil knights Lord Valdek brainwashed to attack our heroes in the later years but I'm not positive. I really need to hunt down a copy of that Knights Kingdom II game and the comics one of these days. It's such a big chunk of lore I'm just missing. "
Pretty sure the third year never got comics, at least not online. They just sort of petered out after the lacklustre second year comics... I don't even know if the story had an official end besides a one-or-two-page comic in Lego Magazine of Minifigure!Sir Kentis telling his son basically "Oh yeah, we won in the end".
At least, if there is an official ending to the 2006 KK story, I never heard of it...
I collected all six of the Year One KKII knights, because I found their story and their characterisations intriguing, and the idea of building more Lego characters on the Bionicle scale (though not in the Bionicle system of course, though their weapons were compatible) was cool to me. The second year, my interest in them dropped off sharply when the second wave was ALL THE SAME CHARACTERS as the first, just with fancier armour... that, incidentally, lost or covered up most of the standard Lego connection points, making them far less modifiable than the original wave had been. And, as I've mentioned before, the comics writers seemed to sort of give up in the second year; the first year comics had small character-building moments scattered throughout, including a couple of comics that were purely for character development rather than directly advancing the main story. The second year ditched that concept entirely for telling the story in as few words as possible, making it very hard for me to get excited over.
The third year knights, I very much eyed up when they came out. The new torso pieces, particularly the chain-mail elements of the two hero knights; the entirely new helmet moulds and characters; the new animal designs on the shields; the variety of weapons - for the first time, not everyone had a sword! And King Jayko and Lord Vladek, the only two characters reoccurring from the previous waves, came with brick-built catapults and canons in their own size scale? Count me interested!
...then the first one I ended up getting was 8705, Dracus (buddy of Karzon here), who was... the most bland of the four (still using a sword instead of a unique new weapon, and with a helmet that didn't look so far removed from Vladek's own original design and just a generic 'bad guy' vibe instead of anything more interesting), and effectively killed my enthusiasm for getting any more of them. Never mind that the others looked far cooler than him, he still managed to sour me on the line as a whole, and I never got any more of them. And the lack of (at least readily available) story material for 2006 gave me nothing to rekindle my interest - whereas Bionicle that year, in contrast, was drawing me in repeatedly with its 'darker and grittier 2001-rehash' aesthetic and the surprise reappearance of classic characters half-way through... so it's probably no surprise which theme I ended up pursuing seriously from there on out!
@Norikins said:
" @GSR_MataNui
https://www.mikerayhawk.com/knights_kingdom.htm
Enjoy."
Oh WOW, that's fascinating! I didn't realise 2005 had had better art than what was seen in the online comics, and I certainly didn't know *ANY* of that about the 2006 plot. Thanks for sharing! :D
I really liked the metallic boxes these guys came in.
[insert "Brutal." meme here]
@Norikins said:
" @GSR_MataNui
https://www.mikerayhawk.com/knights_kingdom.htm
Enjoy.
"
Thank you thank you!
@jol said:
" @watcher21 said:
"Not my thing but the second batch of "knights" was way better than the first."
This is the third batch. As I kid, I much preferred the colourful nature of the earlier ones, but I appreciate the cool metallic pieces now."
Thank my bad, I forgot there were 3 waves.
knights' kingdom reboot with mixel jointed figures when
anyone else think he could be (former) viking?