Awesome! I had no idea this was coming. It's right up my alley. Would have been cooler if they could have made Jonas Kramm's viking ship as well to go with it though.

It looks amazing, but its too small for £140!

Looks amazing and great value for money, i think we can all thanks Target for sponsoring this one and keeping the price down for us all.

Good thing i bought the marvel goat boat yesterday

Is that female viking braid hairpiece new? I don't recognize it, but it looks amazing

Wait £140 but $130?? What type of exchange is that?

@Goujon said:
"Wait £140 but $130?? What type of exchange is that?"

$130 is probably before tax. Different between states.

@dimc said:
"I was honestly hoping to convince myself not to get this and the ship with midgaard serpent, but this looks freaking awesome. Damn you, Lego!"

Yes i believe that Viking ship is due to retire as well, and has been 40% off in UK so best to grab it while you can as it will look great with this set.

Definitely interesting but need more details.

This seems more like an outpost than a village but it is great.

Looks good!
But I wish had more rocky terrain. Give it more height.

@ELbricker said:
"Is that female viking braid hairpiece new? I don't recognize it, but it looks amazing"

I don't think either are new. The orange one I think is Autumn's hairpiece, but I can't tell with how blurry it is. The other hair piece is from the Dinosaur Hunter CMF. It doesn't appear in sets too often, but it has been around for years.

Wow--this looks great! They did a great job keeping it faithful to the design of the original model.

I'm a little bummed that the birds didn't make it into the final product, but I guess that was to be expected.

@EtudeTheBadger said:
"Fun fact: Vikings did not actually wear horned helmets! Those originated in the operas of Richard Wagner."

Fun Fact: I'd have given the same fun fact if you hadn't beaten me to it!

Wish they'd gone with more of the Series 20 minifigure vikings, otherwise seems like a pretty decent set.

Needs an Antonio Banderas minifigure

Oh look, an Edoras playset.

Apparently the black parrots are making a comeback as ravens after 30 odd years. That is the most exciting thing for me. The printed viking carvings are good to see again too. I wonder what torsos they are using, I cannot quite make out if they are the Creator set torsos or not. The helmets are a bit of a disappointment, given the new Gjermundbu style ones have appeared in Dr Strange and City.

The pricing does look a bit odd but presumably it will be discounted in the UK, maybe they have built the ability to discount in. Although the PPP is already good but no doubt that means there are a lot of small parts.

A pearl gold sausage!

Needs a ship full of Muppets singing "In the Navy"....

Ah yes, the infamous Viking War Goblet!

@Ridgeheart said:
"It's probably Stockholm Syndrome (Billund Syndrome?) at this point, but 140 Euros doesn't even seem that bad for this."

I was thinking the same thing. Addicts are easily conditioned I suppose.

That green fish does NOT look edible.

Wow, this set is better than I was hoping for, and I already had pretty high expectations from the original Ideas submission. Also super good price for the piece count, and I do feel like it's a good deal for the size also. 10/10 all around!

Love it and means I can recreate scenes from my fav comedy on nf Norsemen :)

I can't wait to arm my Viking minifigs with the new brush weapon!

And thank goodness they have that lookout tower next to the... tower.

In all seriousness though, I think this set looks great. I have a seaside Viking village in my castle layout, so this will work perfectly for me.

I like it! Some things that could improve it: more vikings (maybe a child), animals (cows, pigs, sheep, goats, chicken?) and a small viking boat would make this a perfect set.

I NEED it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Golden sausages! Vikings! Gimme now!

Are you sure this is £140??? Thats seems surprisingly low for a set of this size!! I was exprecting it to be £200+!!

@Joefish said:
"Looks to me like it needs more dragons...
For training purposes..."

Dragons don't really mix with vikings though. Seems like dragons weren't part of their lore. But worms were. Really, really big worms living in the sea!!

@Lyichir said:
" @djcbs said:
"God forbid they should have kept the use of dark brown instead of reddish brown. It would look much better and if there's something the Ideas designers can't stand is the idea of letting a set go unbutchered. It's the Medieval Blacksmith all over again. Argh.

Shame.
Well, at least it's only 130€. Could be worse. Will be worth getting once it inevitably goes on discount."

Dark Brown is still used here, just in addition to other browns. If you use dark brown exclusively you lose a lot of detail, especially in indirect lighting."

Also, even the original project used a LOT of Reddish Brown, even if it looked much duller due to the digital render's less-than-ideal lighting. A lot the difference in how the final set uses those two colors is just moving them around. For instance, the dock now has a Reddish Brown surface with Dark Brown vertical pilings instead of the other way around, and the longhouse now uses Dark Brown for the support beams on the sides instead of the corner posts (but still uses primarily Dark Brown for the doors and Reddish Brown for the walls, as it did in the original project).

Goodbye money!

Easy pass for me. Indifferent about Castle and quasi-Castle, don't like vikings

That's a cool set.

Pros:

- Looks like a fun add-on to a medieval village
- Nice figures
- Looks like an enjoyable build
- Reasonable pricing
- Inaccurate helmets that allow people to show off their history knowledge about authentic head gear.

Cons:

- Aesthetic is a bit to "MOC" for my taste
- Building/Figures size ratio is off
- Not sure if design will go along well with the creator 3-in-1 Viking ship.

Uthred would be proud.

Very nice development from the original Ideas submission. Decent price compared to the Medieval Blacksmith. Definitely going on the 'With a nice GWP' wishlist!

@EtudeTheBadger said:
"Fun fact: Vikings did not actually wear horned helmets! Those originated in the operas of Richard Wagner."

Wait!!!!! So, They did not ride Dragons either???

That will go well with my long forgotten Vikings. Finally a village for the Nidhogg dragon to attack >:D

@chesney107 said:
"Are you sure this is £140??? Thats seems surprisingly low for a set of this size!! I was exprecting it to be £200+!!"

I doesn't look that big to me. Many parts doesn't mean a big set any more.

@Martin_S said:
"Seems like dragons weren't part of their lore. But worms were. Really, really big worms living in the sea!!"

So like Shai-Hulud, but in water?

@ThoughtLash said:
"Needs an Antonio Banderas minifigure "

I think Scandinavia might be a bit cold for Zorro, but you do you I suppose.

@Decimus said:
"For all the folks talking about the horned helmets vs. the more accurate spectacle helmets: both are included in the set. Obviously we see the horned helmets, but also I think we can see a spectacle helmet hidden in the forge under the pickaxe.

This, plus the fact that the new horned helmets also look to be in dark pearl gray means you can easy replace one with the other, or simply use both at the same time.

Also really like the new shields+the 1 (or maybe 2) new torsos we can see. "

There are two new torso prints that I can tell, the blacksmith and the watchtower guard. The other two are from the Viking ship. They also(at least some of them) have leg printing.

@haldir said:
"I'm really tired of Lego rubbing in the whole "for adults" thing in every press release and description.

We get it, adults can buy Lego. So can kids. It's not like a 16-year-old wouldn't be able to put this set together."

Same.
Every set a 12 year old can put together. Just about every single set out there.

Like it, except for one thing: light blue is fine for Caribbean water, this is the North Sea/Baltic Sea - this should be dark blue (Lego earth blue).

N.B. The 3-in-1 Viking ship and serpent 31132 will apparently be retired at the end of this year.

@StyleCounselor said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"It's probably Stockholm Syndrome (Billund Syndrome?) at this point, but 140 Euros doesn't even seem that bad for this."

I was thinking the same thing. Addicts are easily conditioned I suppose.

That green fish does NOT look edible. "

You ever heard of Lutefisk or Icelandic Hákarl? :)

Meh! Too much brown and lacking everything else.

I just noticed they recolored the fern into white! In the first year of this part's life, it has already received 5 different colors.

Where's Ragnar in this set?

Or Rollo, or Floki, ... or just any viking without a helmet?

Since this set is perfect, I will find something to complain about TLG:

Why can I only buy 3 copies of this set??

@HOBBES said:
[[ @ecleme11 said:
[[ @StyleCounselor said:
[[ @Ridgeheart said:
[[It's probably Stockholm Syndrome (Billund Syndrome?) at this point, but 140 Euros doesn't even seem that bad for this.]]

I was thinking the same thing. Addicts are easily conditioned I suppose.

That green fish does NOT look edible. ]]

You ever heard of Lutefisk or Icelandic Hákarl? :)]]

Surströmming!

During the production of surströmming, just enough salt is used to prevent the raw herring from rotting while allowing it to ferment. A fermentation process of at least six months gives the fish a characteristic strong smell and somewhat acidic taste. A newly opened can of surströmming has one of the most putrid food smells in the world, even stronger than similarly fermented fish dishes such as the Korean hongeohoe, the Japanese kusaya or the Icelandic hákarl. (Wikipedia)

German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote that "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before".[23]]]

Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

I am open to a lot of things, and keep a very open mind about food. But,.... nope, nope, nope!

@pedro_lego said:
"Since this set is perfect, I will find something to complain about TLG:

Why can I only buy 3 copies of this set??"

blame scalpers. they ruin every toy collecting hobby.

> Features a blacksmith

Like we don't have enough of THOSE.

Nothing too substantial about this one. Brown and grey aren't exactly appealing colors, and four okay figures? No boat? $140??

Only Ideas set I can confidently give a hard pass.

I can already see this on my medieval diorama. it fits like a glove and I bet a lot of people is thinking like me, this set it's an unmissable purchase! 130 euros! please take my money!

@PhantomBricks said:
" @ThoughtLash said:
"Needs an Antonio Banderas minifigure "

I think Scandinavia might be a bit cold for Zorro, but you do you I suppose."

This is a reference to the 1999 film The 13th Warrior starring Antonio Banderas. It is based on Michael Crichton's novel Eaters of the Dead, itself loosely adapted from the 10th century travels of Ahmad ibn Fadlan and a retelling of Beowulf.

@benredstar said:
"NO GOATS!"

Far worse: Opera Viking helmets.

This set looks really good to me and the price looks pretty good too, which is something I can't say too often about most other sets. This one will be on my Christmas list.

This is a great little set, and as others have said will pair nicely with 31132.

C'mon, LEGO, you've got the historically accurate helmet pieces, missed opportunity not to use them. This also should've come with a small boat and maybe a few more trees. Otherwise, it looks pretty cool.

@magmafrost said:
"I know its par for the course at this point, but given that Lego is a Danish company, I really wish they'd make more of an effort to represent their own country's heritage in a more historically accurate way. Especially given the extremely problematic origins and history of the inaccurate modern perception of vikings"
Maybe it’s because of the heritage that they went this route? People want fantasy and excitement, and the “historical” route would not provide that. Same with castle or pirates. It’s a toy.

@Martin_S:
I’m finding that Viking dragons were more serpentine. There are so many different traditions for what dragons should look like that it often depends on who you ask if something qualifies as a dragon or not. If the Chinese Lung counts, why wouldn’t Viking serpents? They are often referred to as “Worms” or “Germanic dragons”. In that sense, Jörmungandr the Midgard Serpent is a dragon. So is Níðhöggr, who gnaws on the roots of Yggdrasil. Now, Fáfnir…was a Dwarf who used his shapeshifting ability to turn into a dragon.

Additionally, they are famous for putting dragon heads on the stems of their longboats, though it sounds like there’s no direct evidence that this was their custom. If you think about it, a longboat kinda resembles the profile of a Germanic dragon.

@Jumperstud:
Whether or not the existed in fact, shield-maidens are a part of Viking legend.

@Lyichir said:
" @djcbs said:
"God forbid they should have kept the use of dark brown instead of reddish brown. It would look much better and if there's something the Ideas designers can't stand is the idea of letting a set go unbutchered. It's the Medieval Blacksmith all over again. Argh.

Shame.
Well, at least it's only 130€. Could be worse. Will be worth getting once it inevitably goes on discount."

Dark Brown is still used here, just in addition to other browns. If you use dark brown exclusively you lose a lot of detail, especially in indirect lighting."

Here's an idea, though: use Reddish Brown as AN ACCENT colour rather than as the base brown.
LEGO swaps it to cut costs. Simple. They could have maintained the overall use of Dark Brown and only use the Reddish for extra details. But no. That would require them to recolour pieces to deliver what fans voted for and we can't have that on the theme based on, supposedly, giving fans what they vote for...

@djcbs said:
" @Lyichir said:
" @djcbs said:
"God forbid they should have kept the use of dark brown instead of reddish brown. It would look much better and if there's something the Ideas designers can't stand is the idea of letting a set go unbutchered. It's the Medieval Blacksmith all over again. Argh.

Shame.
Well, at least it's only 130€. Could be worse. Will be worth getting once it inevitably goes on discount."

Dark Brown is still used here, just in addition to other browns. If you use dark brown exclusively you lose a lot of detail, especially in indirect lighting."

Here's an idea, though: use Reddish Brown as AN ACCENT colour rather than as the base brown.
LEGO swaps it to cut costs. Simple. They could have maintained the overall use of Dark Brown and only use the Reddish for extra details. But no. That would require them to recolour pieces to deliver what fans voted for and we can't have that on the theme based on, supposedly, giving fans what they vote for..."

Lego: Now now with the colour bitching.

Lego: Let's settle this matter once and for all.

Lego: There are no problems doing an all black and dark grey set 76252; but it is utterly out of the question of doing anything - you heard me, anything - completely in dark brown. For reasons that we will never explain, dark brown is to be used ever so sparingly.

Me: Sad you could not get your dose of dark brown parts after 3 failed attempts: 21322, 21318, 21343. Try to have a good day!

Oh Lordy…I know I’ll cave and buy two and make it bigger. It’s a REALLY good set at a REALLY good price.

And uh… @magmafrost
“I know its par for the course at this point, but given that Lego is a Danish company, I really wish they'd make more of an effort to represent their own country's heritage in a more historically accurate way. Especially given the extremely problematic origins and history of the inaccurate modern perception of vikings”

Um…have you seen their Ninjas? Grab a massage, my friend, it’s supposed to be fun. ;D

Well, given that only 1 single Viking helmet has been preserved, ever, (unhorned), I do consider the argument wide open who's correct on the horns.

Yay, a cool set coming out for my birthday!

@blogzilly:
Have you ever been to Ninjago City? The ninjas they’re producing now look _exactly_ like they do in Ninjago City in real life. Prove me wrong.