Talk about guys looking the same in uniform. Triplets!

@Darth_Mule said:
"Look how rusty those spears are!

Serves ‘em right for using spears as oars."

Who knows, they may be wooden!

@PurpleDave said:
"In retrospect, Ragnar realized he should have read the fine print more closely before booking this cruise."

That was... Far Side?

@gorf43:
No, that’s all me. The first thing that popped in my mind was “Viking Cruise Lines”. I guess it does sound exactly like a Far Side caption, though.

Yesh...last time I saw a "Voyager" that bad, it was lost in the "Delta Quadrant"..."Boldly Going" my foot...:)

These white hoses are just slightly different and therefore only about $4 each instead of $12

@Murdoch17 said:
"Give my regards to 10190 Market Street, because these "Vikings" make off with their railings! (probably going to sell them for a fortune, too.)"

@brick_r :
Entire solar systems without two of the universe’s most abundant elements! Or at least not in the combination that’s an easy byproduct of burning one of them. Certainly explains why the first hostile faction they encounter didn’t have any understanding of the word “shampoo”.

Then later on, the most utilitarian member of the crew is the only one who dresses exclusively in catsuits and high heels. And they got on n’grath’s case for having the wrong number of limbs for an Earth insect...

Colorful little boat and five figures, what's not no like?

@Zordboy said:
"Those flexible tubing pieces always looked so weird, to me, when they popped up in Pirates or Castle sets."

I'm pretty convinced they were meant to be cloth covers (like on 6716). Like the oars there was no better alternative at the time (and at that scale). 6016 from the same year used this technique as well.

Actually that set would live up a lot more to it's (US) name if it used round shields (3876) instead of the triangular lion shields...

The first castle set I ever got. Still the best one :-)

Glad to finally see it on the random set of the day

row row row your boat
gently up the stream ...

In the year of the Lord 992..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_253-HURY8

I like all the happy smiles even though they are going no-where rowing in a dried up river. This set has 4 unique mini-figs, with the rowers double axe breastplate not appearing anywhere else. I didn't realize until today that there is a treasure chest under the white awnings, with a yellow goblet inside.

Is Random set of the day truly random or is it picking up on an algorithim somewhere? I was looking up this set just this weekend... so imagine my surprise to suddenly see it on the front page!

Pure greatness sometimes comes in small size.

Quite the goofy set. It would have looked a lot better without that 2x8 on the bottom.

@Binnekamp said:
"Quite the goofy set. It would have looked a lot better without that 2x8 on the bottom."

Maybe, but I’m not sure how sturdy it would have been without it, even with black 2x10 inside. I had this set as a kid, and played with it a lot. I’m afraid that without the red 2x10 at the bottom, wedges and slopes that make the body of the boat would have a good chance to be knocked out during play.

Not sure if a spear is the best thing to use as an oar.

So many fond memories of this set (and the one soldier I lost as a child! :P )...

I love this set. I don't know how or why, but I somehow ended up with two of these sets when I was young. I thought of them as vikings myself. I remember that I had the paddling up a bristol board river in my LEGO city layout.

@jkb said:
" @ForestMenOfEndor said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"LEGO Vikings 18 years before LEGO Vikings?

BillandTedWoah.gif"

more like BillundTed ...."

Bill und Ted is the German name! =D"

Ha! And here I was just trying to make a Denmark joke.

Speaking of "Viking" castle sets, there's the 6057 which is a dragon boat, though it's not a longboat like this, at least it has better theming.

On the same day as The Goat Boat was revealed.

@Brickalili:
Um, what? Vikings were the intermediate people between the Germanic Norsemen and modern Scandinavians, as well as the people who settled Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Russia, and Normandy.

This looks so charming now!
As a kid, I owned its smaller counterpart 6017 and thought that the bigger 6049 was only for the rich kids.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili:
Um, what? Vikings were the intermediate people between the Germanic Norsemen and modern Scandinavians, as well as the people who settled Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Russia, and Normandy."

Viking is from Old English word 'wicing' which basically means 'pirate' (or at least is used interchangeably with other words that mean pirate). If they wanted to describe nationality they'd say Dane or Norse. Viking wasn't a description of who you were or where you were from, it was a description of what you did; namely taking to the sea and raiding or claiming land

Fun little Viking fact: In Japan you can eat "Viking", that's what they call a buffet. Because obviously, those guys had a smörgåsbord every day of the week between all of the raiding and plundering.

And if that alone doesn't make Japanese cuisine the most badass there is, in Japan you can also eat Genghis Khan: Jingisukan is grilled mutton. Because obviously, that's all the greatest warlord ever ate while conquering half the planet.

Bon Appétit!

Five minifigures for $11...I miss those days, especially beautiful army builders like this.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili:
Um, what? Vikings were the intermediate people between the Germanic Norsemen and modern Scandinavians, as well as the people who settled Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Russia, and Normandy."

Sorry Dave but your heritage is not viking, unless you've acquired all your LEGO via plundering and raiding.

@Brickalili:
Where a term originated, and what it comes to mean, are not the same thing. “Barbarian” was basically making fun of the way one specific cultural group talked (“bar bar bar bar bar...”), but the term came to mean any “uncultured” warlike group. Japan and Greece are names that were applied to entire nations by Western European explorers based on simple misunderstandings. No village that was sacked by Vikings would see any difference between the warriors who arrived by longship and any family they left behind while they went raiding.