Is that a Brick Built Midgard Serpent?!!

I last year bought the hull and sail of the “Viking Ship vs the Midgaard Serpent” set from 2005 (?) that this is clearly an homage to, then spent a while and a lot of effort Bricklinking the serpent, dragon head on the ship, all the other parts, and lots of Viking minifigs!
One of my favourite sets! Never ceases to draw comments!

That brick-built cow is very cool

I'm getting Black Seas Barracuda vibes from that sail. Funny how they used the red and white stripes here and not in 31109.

Good to see that the viking helmet is back in production.

Brick-built sail. Cheaper than cloth I guess.

Brown string, though? That’s new.

Classic space when?! For crying out loud.

History is a "theme" (or idea, or whatever) that I really think Lego could do more in. I'm excited for this in a way I never am for Creator generally, it's just a shame I'll have to sell my house to get enough Series 19 Vikings to man it.

That sea-serpent is epic win, tho.

Vikings did not have horns on their helmets. LEGO (a Danish company) should know this...
Otherwise a cool set!

It even comes with Hugin and Munin, Odin's ravens

@MeisterDad said:
"Brick-built sail. Cheaper than cloth I guess.

Brown string, though? That’s new."

It’s not string, I don’t believe. I think it’s plastic, like in the Creator pirate ship.

Well that was unexpected! But very welcome! I was after the original for a loooong time.

@bobaphat107 said:
"Vikings did not have horns on their helmets. LEGO (a Danish company) should know this...
Otherwise a cool set!"

They didn't have giant sea serpents either, I don't think historical accuracy is the aim here.

@MeisterDad said:
"Brick-built sail. Cheaper than cloth I guess."

It's Creator 3-in-1, EVERYTHING is brick-built here.

Oh snap, that Jormungandr is pretty on par with the original it’s based on, not bad for a set that needs to be reusable

Add Muppet minifigs for the "In The Navy" number!
Kermit: "But first, meet the Vikings, those cruel, heartless, Scandinavian marauders whose savage brutality earned them the reputation 'worst human beings in history'"
Chef: "Ingish vorn der doon-der hroof" (Dong!)
Kermit: "Argh! Uh. I'm sorry about that! Ladies and gentlemen, the Vikings, those gentle, quaint, fun-loving old charmers..."

Isn't this a 3 in 1 set? Curious to see The alternative builds, and hoping for a longhouse.

I’m excited for this and happy they included 4 mini figs since Creator sets seem to focus on the build and are light in figs (castle and pirate ship only had 3)

@maffyd said:
"Classic space when?! For crying out loud."

We had three different Creator space sets with classic space logo minfigures (even real airtank backpacks!) in the past few years, not counting that space shuttle even though the minifigure used the same torso. It's a shame, though, that they didn't continue with that concept; even 1 per year would make me happy!

@Rimefang said:
"Isn't this a 3 in 1 set? Curious to see The alternative builds, and hoping for a longhouse."

A catalogue pic actually leaked a while back. The alternative builds look like a wolf and a cabin.

@MeisterDad said:
"Brick-built sail. Cheaper than cloth I guess.

Brown string, though? That’s new."

It's a Creator 3-in-1 set - there everything is brick built, also animals.

Honestly, classic space seems pretty inevitable as one of these big summer creator homage sets. You'll get it, I'm certain. What other classic themes might be on their list? We've now ticked off three big requests in three years, the non-space options are growing fewer in number for 2023/4.

For now though, I think I like this. At a distance it looks like it's smaller than it actually is when you look at the parts, if that makes sense? I did enjoy the pirate ship and the castle a lot, so this is a likely buy from me. The side build is fairly big, the animal side builds in the pirate ship and the castle were smaller. Through perhaps in hand, it will be apparent that the viking ship needed less of the budget to feel complete, and allowed for a fuller sea serpent.

Definitely getting this one!
I'm so happy Creator is going back and making some Classic sets. I'm so tired of licensed themes. Hope to see some Classic Space somewhere down the line!

They keep doing this weird thing of releasing overlapping sets in the same year. The barracuda Bay set in the same year as the Creator pirate ship. The medieval blacksmith around the same time as the Creator castle. And now for his ship in the same year as this Viking ship. Maybe I'm remembering these wrong, it just feels that way to me.

@bobaphat107 said:
"Vikings did not have horns on their helmets. LEGO (a Danish company) should know this...
Otherwise a cool set!"
They released a historically accurate Viking minifig in Series 20. 71027-8

@vinternet said:
"They keep doing this weird thing of releasing overlapping sets in the same year. The barracuda Bay set in the same year as the Creator pirate ship. The medieval blacksmith around the same time as the Creator castle. And now for his ship in the same year as this Viking ship. Maybe I'm remembering these wrong, it just feels that way to me."
Thematically the same but different price bands. The Goat Boat, for example, is £45. This 3-in-1 Creator Longship will be around £80 - £90, I reckon.

I actually don't like that this is a "Creator" set. That is, I would prefer specialized parts, like sails, animals, shields and so on. I know some people like this "everything is brick built experience" but I would actually like to see new part (as well as old specialized parts) be used in a revamped set such as this one.
At first glance this sail doesn't look as bad as the Pirate ship one, I'll decide if I'm buying this when clearer images come out.

Yay. Opera-Viking helmets.

@Rimefang said:
"Isn't this a 3 in 1 set? Curious to see The alternative builds, and hoping for a longhouse."
Yeah, saw a blurry leaked pic awhile back.
The other two builds are a large/tall Viking lodge/cabin with smaller builds (couldn’t make out clearly, too blurry) and a large Fenris wolf with a big tree/terrain build.

I don’t usually get sets over $40 but this looks cool, our school’s mascot is a Viking and one administrator has the 2006 LEGO Viking sets in his office so he might take an interest in this. Even if I don’t get it, I probably have enough parts to try making something similar once the instructions are up— that’s the magic of Creator ships.

@maffyd said:
"Classic space when?! For crying out loud."

When the Lego Movie came out, they released Benny's Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!! Copies sat unpurchased at my local toy stores for YEARS after, gathering dust. Even at the time the Bricklink resell price wasn't much over $100. It was the classic space's fan dream set, and nobody bought it. Just look at the aftermarket prices, they only really started picking up after 2020, for the first years after it came out the aftermarket prices weren't much higher than the retail price, indicating nobody really sought it out: https://www.brickeconomy.com/set/70816-1/the-lego-movie-bennys-spaceship-spaceship-spaceship

That set showed Lego a giant classic space set wouldn't sell. The IDEAS Exo Suit, another classic space set due to the green figures, came out a short time later, and the demand for that is STILL low. You can pick up a copy on the after market for a few dollars more than the original selling price

When the Lego Movie 2 came out, we got two classic space sets: That little Astronaut Battle Pack of sorts with the pink classic space suit, and a junior's one. The aftermarket prices are still close to their initial retail prices. The demand isn't there:

https://www.brickeconomy.com/set/70821-1/emmet-and-bennys-build-and-fix-workshop
https://www.brickeconomy.com/set/70841-1/the-lego-movie-2-the-second-part-bennys-space-squad

I am so sick of people moaning for "muh classik SPAAAACE" so often, because when Lego DOES release them, nobody buys. If people bought them, the aftermarket value would reflect their collectability, but it doesn't.

It looks like a deliberate homage to the 2005 version with the roofed section, the shield colors and the midgard serpent lookalike.
Love it!
Creator continues to be the best theme right now, especially amongst the few non-licensed ones left.

@Sandinista, excellent point. Sadly classic space isn't one thing to everyone. I've heard people say the Spaceship (x3) didn't count as a 'real' CS set!
Even though I think it's genuinely one of the best spacecraft we've gotten in recent years, and not at all due to the branding. But still not good enough apparently. But yeah... we apparently need exactly what came out in 1979 because that's not a bad idea at all.

@Sandinista ,

With regards to 70841 Benny’s Space Squad, your premise is wrong and so is your conclusion.

Demand for that set was so great when it was released that LEGO stores couldn’t get enough in stock for a couple of months (I was in the US and UK at the time and saw that first hand). LEGO doubled its initially planned production run which over-saturated the market, eventually leading to discounts in several markets and the low prices it still goes for to this day.

If LEGO had only ever had a standard production run for a set of that size, it would command crazy high prices in today’s aftermarket. The low price for it today is only because of over-production and discounting in the year or so after its release.

@Doctor_Hugh said:
" @Sandinista said:
" @maffyd said:
"Classic space when?! For crying out loud."

When the Lego Movie came out, they released Benny's Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!! Copies sat unpurchased at my local toy stores for YEARS after, gathering dust. Even at the time the Bricklink resell price wasn't much over $100. It was the classic space's fan dream set, and nobody bought it. Just look at the aftermarket prices, they only really started picking up after 2020, for the first years after it came out the aftermarket prices weren't much higher than the retail price, indicating nobody really sought it out: https://www.brickeconomy.com/set/70816-1/the-lego-movie-bennys-spaceship-spaceship-spaceship

That set showed Lego a giant classic space set wouldn't sell. The IDEAS Exo Suit, another classic space set due to the green figures, came out a short time later, and the demand for that is STILL low. You can pick up a copy on the after market for a few dollars more than the original selling price

When the Lego Movie 2 came out, we got two classic space sets: That little Astronaut Battle Pack of sorts with the pink classic space suit, and a junior's one. The aftermarket prices are still close to their initial retail prices. The demand isn't there:

https://www.brickeconomy.com/set/70821-1/emmet-and-bennys-build-and-fix-workshop
https://www.brickeconomy.com/set/70841-1/the-lego-movie-2-the-second-part-bennys-space-squad

I am so sick of people moaning for "muh classik SPAAAACE" so often, because when Lego DOES release them, nobody buys. If people bought them, the aftermarket value would reflect their collectability, but it doesn't. "

Classic Space was the main theme I bought as a child. If they released a new set in that theme I would buy it like a shot. I didn't buy Benny's spaceship because it was part of The Lego Movie (which I really didn't enjoy), not Classic Space. The Ideas Exo Suit is awful. You mention a Juniors set which those who remember Classic Space wouldn't buy because it's Juniors. Having a space theme doesn't mean it appeals to Classic Space fans."

Well you dug your own grave. Lego created and gave you a classic space based set with Spaceshipx3, and not buying it because it was Lego Movie themed is a dumb reason not to buy a set clearly designed to satisfy the classic space demand. What else does that show Lego except classic space is dead?

"Well we released a $100 classic space set in the Lego movie theme, but it isn't selling well"
"Guess the people don't want classic space then"

@Sandinista:
To be fair, BSS was insanely difficult to find for a few weeks. People bought it, but a small AFOL market didn’t take long to sate (and it didn’t help that they appeared for all of half a second in the film). The big ship did get a lot of attention when it came out, but was ironically priced out many fans’ range (yes, there are AFOLs who don’t buy above $50). Exo-Suit also sold really well…to the point they did a second run (unheard of for typical Ideas sets at the time). Much of the initial run was snatched up by speculators, who suddenly saw their market bottom out, and some of them are probably still sitting on copies, waiting for prices to rise.

@Binnekamp:
Why? Because the box has the TLM logo instead of Classic Space? Because it’s bleys, not greys? Because no original Benny came in a set with that color scheme?

@Zander:
The flip side of that is that, if they had not increased production, many fans would have tried to get many more copies than they ended up buying. I found myself in that precise situation. I did get a few copies early on, and had intended to buy more, but it was so easy to find them a few months in that I kept pushing off additional purchases because I didn’t feel like I needed to be in a rush anymore. Then one day I realized they were all gone.

@Doctor_Hugh:
2x 70816.
2-3 70841.
4x 21109.
1x 70821.

And that’s from someone who’s more partial to Blacktron 1, and whose childhood collection somehow managed to steer clear of the blue CS color scheme across dozens of sets. I know of a few other members of my LUG who also purchased the first three.

@PurpleDave said:
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@Binnekamp:
Why? Because the box has the TLM logo instead of Classic Space? Because it’s bleys, not greys? Because no original Benny came in a set with that color scheme?
"

Why would you ask me? Personally I don't care as long as it's a great set, and the Spaceship x3 is an outstanding set even. What I meant is that there are apparently people who see a great callback set like the viking boat and somehow think that they are owed a classic space set. And an original one too. Not one that's literally a love letter. But a 'real' one.

Doctor_Hugh proves my point.

I mean, it's perfectly fine to not like a set like that. Heck, I bought it later because the price was out of reach at the time, as it's the largest TLM set beside the Sea Cow.
But not buying it because it's not literally the Classic Space subtheme even though it's specifically made to provide a modern new set of a long gone theme misses the point. It will never be the actual classic space subtheme. It never even was a subtheme, just 'Space' before factions were a thing.

Themes like classic space will never reappear exactly like they used to be. For that you're better off tracking down the actual old sets.

And very few themes ever get that treatment.
This is why this viking ship is such a nice surprise. It pays homage to an older theme in a way that hasn't particularly been done before beside the more common castle and pirates callback sets.

To add to the discussion on Neo-CS sets: I bought the Spaceship x3 (and modified the heck out of it!), and four copies of the battle pack released for TLM2. I also received the Build and Fix workshop as a gift, simply because was Classic Space themed. My brother bought 2 of the Ideas mech and about twelve (or so) green astronaut figs off Bricklink, which I eventually purchased from him for my Classic Space fleet.

To be honest, SPACESHIPx3 is what jumpstarted my love of Classic Space. I've built a bunch of CS themed SW models such as two Conveyex put back-to-back, Resistance I-TS Transport and a walled Space base using the 2015 Jurassic World gates from 75919 as a starting point and two Space-ized patrol jeeps from 75916 to boot. This just scratches the surface of what influence Benny from TLM series had on me!

@Binnekamp said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"
@Binnekamp:
Why? Because the box has the TLM logo instead of Classic Space? Because it’s bleys, not greys? Because no original Benny came in a set with that color scheme?
"

Why would you ask me? Personally I don't care as long as it's a great set, and the Spaceship x3 is an outstanding set even. What I meant is that there are apparently people who see a great callback set like the viking boat and somehow think that they are owed a classic space set. And an original one too. Not one that's literally a love letter. But a 'real' one.

Doctor_Hugh proves my point. "

This post wasn’t a reply to mine but as I’ve been mentioned I feel I should clarify that I don’t feel I’m owed anything. If they make a space set I like then I’ll buy it. Until then I’ll buy the dozens of other sets I do like. There are enough good sets I want without needing to moan about what isn’t available.

@maffyd said:
"Classic space when?! For crying out loud."

Lego released them last month: 60351, 60350, 60349, 60348

Classic space logo's in the OG and updated color scheme. The sets are in the signature classic space blue and white. These sets are all updates of original sets 920, 6972, 6929, 6927.

The ingenious part is the new sets are really pre-Classic Space showing the transition between what we have now and the far future of Classic Space.

@maffyd said:
"Classic space when?! For crying out loud."

Keep in mind that wanting a 3-in-1 "Classic Space" set (as we think of it) is a MUCH more specific desire than wanting a 3-in-1 castle, pirates, vikings, or space set in general.

"Classic Space" as AFOLs tend to think of it is practically an IP in its own right, with a strictly defined color scheme, design language, minifigure designs, etc. Needless to say, you wouldn't count a generic astronaut minifigure as a Classic Space character any more than I'd count a generic ninja minifigure as a Ninjago character. Even modernized torso and leg printing or headgear (like those of the Black Falcon/Eagle Knight minifigures from 21325) would be enough to disqualify a space minifigure from counting as "Classic Space" in the eyes of many AFOLs.

And needless to say, for kids in LEGO's core audience — over two decades too young to have a nostalgic attachment to Classic Space (except through Benny from The LEGO Movie) — there's nothing inherently MORE special about a blue, gray, and yellow space vehicle crewed by astronauts in footie pajamas with a planet logo than a spaceship in any other colors with more detailed, modern minifigures.

That's not to say that a Classic Space throwback set COULDN'T appeal to kids. But its appeal would be about the same as any other spaceship or moonbase, despite imposing a bunch of additional design constraints they wouldn't necessarily understand or appreciate. So I don't think it's surprising that the Creator 3-in-1 design team hasn't made that an especially high priority.

The forum-style bunfight of speculation is so amusing here, i actually forgot this viking ship is not flying in space.

My favourite quote so far:
‘ Well you dug your own grave.’

Unreal- another’s comment shouldn’t threaten our own opinion. Sometimes i feel that community warmth may be lacking but then i remember how many of us are on the spectrum!