Random set of the day: Dagger Trap
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Today's random set is 20017 Dagger Trap, released during 2010. It's one of 6 Prince of Persia sets produced that year. It contains 52 pieces and 1 minifig.
It's owned by 1,464 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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A Brickmaster set! I remember this one, but I never saw the movie until about a year ago. Honestly, didn't hate it, but I don't know anything about the video games, and if it's an issue of, "Nothing in the movie actually happened," I actually love that.
Anyway, back to the polybag, pretty neat to get some two of the dagger of time (yup, you got an extra), and some colors not so common in Star Wars sets. Also I like Destan's hair, which was designed specifically for this minifigure. Doesn't work for every minifigure in the recolors it has, but it works more often than not for medium-long length hair.
Man I always forget that this line was a thing, but I'll echo what was said above. The dagger and Destan's hair are both fantastic parts!
@MCLegoboy said:
"A Brickmaster set! I remember this one, but I never saw the movie until about a year ago. Honestly, didn't hate it, but I don't know anything about the video games, and if it's an issue of, "Nothing in the movie actually happened," I actually love that.
Anyway, back to the polybag, pretty neat to get some two of the dagger of time (yup, you got an extra), and some colors not so common in Star Wars sets. Also I like Destan's hair, which was designed specifically for this minifigure. Doesn't work for every minifigure in the recolors it has, but it works more often than not for medium-long length hair."
Why did you reference Star Wars?
This is the only Prince of Persia set I don’t have. What an underrated theme though! I wish lego still did random one off licensed action themes like this.
@R1_Drift said:
"Why did you reference Star Wars?"
Because I'm a Star Wars shill and have bought too many sets from that theme when I probably could have gotten way better stuff across LEGO's portfolio over the years.
So much gray...
I have never seen the movie these sets are based on or even played the games but these sets are really good. I have almost all of them and am only missing two of them.
I kind of regret not picking up these. Aside from being in my dark ages, they offered some great Middle Eastern builds and ostriches!
These sets got me out of my Dark Age. I was at the Lego Store at Tysons Corner and got all of these on sale, except the polybag, for under $100 total. Best deal ever.
highest percentage of any theme out of everything I own.
The ostriches were good.
Its a trap!
wrong movie :P
I would love for LEGO to do another Middle Eastern theme, specifically something Persian. We sort of get a little bit of this type of thing from the Disney Princess line whenever there's a set featuring Princess Jasmine, and there have been two Egyptological themes, but they could do so much more. I imagine some sort of fantasy orientalism with genies, sand worms, giant scorpions, Arabian horses, sultans, villainous viziers, harem girls, and street-rat heroes like Dastan or Aladdin. I guess it may not be seen as very politically correct but by that line of thinking neither are many of the Ninjago sets that they put out that have Asian and Polynesian aesthetics.
The best parts out of the whole Persia theme hands down are the Ostriches and Camels. Everything else? Meh.
Totally not-Persian Jake Gyllenhaal, you walked right into the Dagger Trap! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
I remember in the Lego Lord of the Rings video game, those Dagger of Time parts were used for Legolas' daggers. I liked that so much that I actually ordered a couple from Bricklink for my Legolas minifig in real life.
@MCLegoboy said:
" @R1_Drift said:
"Why did you reference Star Wars?"
Because I'm a Star Wars shill and have bought too many sets from that theme when I probably could have gotten way better stuff across LEGO's portfolio over the years.
So much gray..."
Haha, yep. Same here.
It’s the worst when my dagger gets trapped.
I picked up a bunch of Prince of Persia sets, but I guess I missed out on this one. I don’t remember it.
They had a kind of fun vibe to them. The sets were actually fun to play with, if I’m remembering them correctly.
Like many, know next to nothing about the source material, but love the theme. The sets in this theme I believe were the first to make extensive use of new earthy colors like medium nougat and dark brown and tan. They had excellent trap play features and visually interesting builds. They were excellent to mix with the Indiana Jones sets like 7195 .
This theme has quite a legacy by introducing a surprising amount of molds still in use today like Setam's claws and shoulder pads from 7569 . On the topic of minifigures, they were groundbreaking, with excellent different armor and robe designs and completely unique faces made for each named character. The scabbard piece was amazing and Ninjago would make many similar katana-holding pieces.
This theme is proof that licensed themes can be good and appeal to those with no care for the franchise, especially if they cover a preexisting real-world subject matter LEGO wouldn't do otherwise, such as the middle-east. I would say the "good licenses" in this vein are Indiana Jones, Prince of Persia, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lone Ranger, Hobbit/LOTR and Speed Champions. Harry Potter, Minecraft, and maybe Overwatch have some outside appeal, but to a much lesser degree. Definitely not stuff that's removed from reality and in their own little world like Star Wars, Super Heroes (minus sets like the Spiderman bridge battle, sanctum sanctorum, and Daily Bugle), or Mario.
Dagger trap. For when you absolutely, positively, must trap a dagger.
So, given I’m seeing ads now for a Sonic 2 movie, I wonder if that means PoP has finally been knocked off the “highest grossing movie based on a video game” throne. I never watched the movie, but I did watch a fair amount of the actual games. At least one person who lived in my dorm had these games and was playing through them in his spare time. If there was nothing else going on, some of us would sit and watch, and maybe offer advice on how to get past some of the more complex puzzles. Occasionally we were even helpful in that regard.
@CarolinaOnMyMind:
I’m unclear. Is this what passes for a land war in Asia these days?
I got another Prince of Persia set, it had a mosque type building, the Princess (whatever her name was), a market place and an awesome camel!
As for this set, that minifig is Malcolm Turnbull and the 'build' part of the set is Scott Morrison haha.
Looks like a lot of fun in a 4x14 footprint.
Ah, a trap around the dagger rather than a trap involving daggers, I see
@MCLegoboy said:
" @R1_Drift said:
"Why did you reference Star Wars?"
Because I'm a Star Wars shill and have bought too many sets from that theme when I probably could have gotten way better stuff across LEGO's portfolio over the years.
So much gray..."
Even if unlicensed and other licensed themes sometimes get me better value, Star Wars is something I’ll always be interested in so it has that appeal to me.
I’ve seen the movie before, after over a decade of wanting to since I first saw the trailer and the LEGO sets… it sucked. I knew it was going to suck but it still sucked as bad as it would’ve otherwise. The sets are kind of cool for 2010 and they don’t need to rely that much on accuracy, though. I don’t judge older polybags that much but the play features here are p cool, I guess. It’s still interesting that LEGO made Prince of Persia sets when two of the games are rated M (even if the line was based exclusively on the Sands of Time film and this one takes inspiration from the older games).
@PurpleDave Sonic isn’t the highest-grossing video game movie, the second is Detective Pikachu and the highest-grossing one is that awful Warcraft movie that everyone forgot about. I don’t have high hopes for the Uncharted movie (please don’t kiddiefy it and make it into another Jumanji Reboot-type film, Sony) or Sonic 2 but they deserve that title more than the Warcraft one— dually so after we found out what was happening in the World of Warcraft offices…
Back in 2017 I discovered that Prince of Persia sets exist. I had seen many of those faces, torsos and builds before, but only then found the source. I really like these sets quite a lot, despite not knowing anything about the film. To be honest, I didn't even know this polybag exists up until now. Prince of Persia theme is full of surprises.
I see it as a mix between Indiana Jones and Pirates of the Caribbean in terms of Lego sets.
I have two of every POP set except this one which never seemed to go on sale. One of my favourite themes to this day. Camels and ostriches FTW!
Johnny Thunder trying out a new look, forgot how much protection a simple hat offers against daggers.
Whilst I don’t have this set, I do have the Ostrich riders set which will always hold a special place in my heart as I bought it on my honeymoon in California legoland!
@goldenguy880 said:
"I remember in the Lego Lord of the Rings video game, those Dagger of Time parts were used for Legolas' daggers. I liked that so much that I actually ordered a couple from Bricklink for my Legolas minifig in real life."
I honestly didn’t know that the Sands of Time dagger was used for Legolas in the LotR video game (I’ve never played it) but look what I armed one of my elves with on the left of this picture: https://brickshelf.com/gallery/AmperZand/Fantasy/mirkwood_elves_small.jpg
PoP also introduced a great, new turban piece, the one on the right of this picture: https://brickshelf.com/gallery/AmperZand/Fantasy/assassins_with_katars.jpg
I was subscribed to BrickMaster for year, and this was one of the sets I received. I found the magazine itself kind of bland, but the mini sets were awesome!
PoP's legacy lives on solely in the lego sets. It and the Lone Ranger are the prime examples of licensed themes of box office bombs with surprisingly good sets. It warms my heart to see actual good set design unencumbered with accuracy like these ranges (for the most part with the probably more accurate Lone Ranger anyway). Not everything needs to reproduce every curve of the things in the films.
I miss action adventure sets like these. I was recenly rebuilding my Ninja (1998) sets and I was reminded how falling axe traps guarding gems used to be so much more common. As someone who always liked buildings more than vehicles, Ninjago rarely scratches that itch.
@chrisaw said:
"I kind of regret not picking up these. Aside from being in my dark ages, they offered some great Middle Eastern builds and ostriches!"
And camels! I wish I'd picked up some of these too but I passed them over at the time. Regret!
This was a fun one! I remember being impressed that a Brickmaster polybag had a minifig, since they were usually just micromodels around this period.
@Trigger_:
My point was more that, as far as I was aware, Prince of Persia actually _was_ the highest grossing video game movie when it came out, and was still considered a box office bomb. I think before that it was the Mario Bros live action film (I had a theatre professor who was Bob Hoskins’ voice coach for that one). They just hadn’t done well at all up to that point. But if a VG film actually gets a sequel, maybe it made some money. Doesn’t mean it’s the first, but it is the first I noticed.
The movie wasn’t great, but I did enjoy it, and some of the games that inspired it are classics; the LEGO theme very nearly is as well. Solid builds, with a nice balance of accuracy, imagination, and play value, new animals, and no stickers across the entire line. I got at least one of each of the six sets, this Brickmaster polybag plus the five boxed retail sets, plus dupes of each of the three smallest retail sets. And I still wish I’d gotten more. The whole line works well for expanding the Indiana Jones line, one of my big lives (a few weeks ago, when the Indy set 7621 was RSotD, I started to make this huge comment and then it didn’t post. Argh…).
@BlueberryWaffles said:
"This was a fun one! I remember being impressed that a Brickmaster polybag had a minifig, since they were usually just micromodels around this period."
Yep! Over 2008-2010, there were three that had minifigures - 20002, a small City fire vehicle with a firefighter; 20004, Indy’s Jungle Cruiser, an Indiana Jones Jeep-like vehicle (very similar to the Jeep in the later Toy Story set 7595) with Indy himself; and this Prince of Persia set with Dastan. When I first signed up for Brickmaster in anticipation of the Indy set, I hoped there’d be a few more minifigures in the offerings than there ended up being. Still, Brickmaster was pretty neat, and I miss it.
This theme also introduced the ‘fancy’ 1x3x2 bow 88292 to create the middle eastern style architectural profiles.
I loved those games
Random set of two days! This also was the case with Tuner Garage, but due to the Vintage Set of The Day, Friday's random set articles are having a doubled lifespan before commenting is closed and they are hidden from the main page.
@Norikins:
They’re not hidden from the main page (nor are the VSotW articles), but they don’t float, so you have to scroll down until you find them (like I just did), and maybe even click to load more articles.