A dragon wearing a helmet. Beautiful. I also appreciate the serpent’s specialized head being molded with grooves that match the texture of the Rahkshi’s back. Makes it feel less out of place.
I'm glad the Vikings team made as many new moulds for this theme as they did instead of repurposing unusual Bionicle parts for every situation. We got some pretty sweet head moulds out of this theme!
The mix of building systems for the creatures was an awesome idea from the designers. It really adds a touch of fantasy or otherworldliness to them. It may have been from a more limited parts selection of the time, but thematically its genius
@@kailahmann1823agreed. And there are a lot of ways to be compatible. I built one of my favorite starfighters almost exclusively from Bionicle-other than the three Bionicle donor sets, I only added minifig and a trans-red 1x1 round brick.
I love to see this. I know the Vikings because my brother had them, but the castle knights were exactly in my time and i still proudly have the big castle on my shelf
With these sets being released in 2005 amid the major changes in Lego's business practices, part of me wonders if this theme was almost a response from the designers to prove the merit of the different branches of the Lego system and how well they could be integrated. Whether that's the case or not, this theme is certainly unique and I think almost every part of it has aged like a fine wine!
It could be the designers trying to tap into the success of Bionicle as well, or simple trying to give those expensive moulded pieces more purpose! 🤣 Either way, I think it's clear the design team for Vikings had a lot of fun with these parts.
I remember I was REALLY dissapointed when this series ended so fast. The Wolf was one of the few builds I never destroyed since I was a kid. Now it's a mount of my Orc shaman
Always felt this line would have paired well with the later Orc and Dwarf Fantasy Castle sublines. Lego really nailed this line for how short lived it was.
That image on the back of the box... was something I didn't know I would see again. My world was never the same after that. Important childhood memory unlocked. Thanks man, I hope Lego revives this iconic theme.
I got them all growing up! I loved this theme, and wish there were more. I felt like Ofnir was too big as a kid, but looking back, I loved it. The fortress was my favorite. Stockpiled all of my Viking there as they invaded my medieval castles and villages. Good times.
The viking boat in the second set you looked at (the one with the Wyvern) has an almost identical boat build to the one found in one of the hobbit lake town sets.
Vikings is such an underrated and just not known theme. I think you dropped this video at the absolute perfect time with the brand new viking village. Its great to see these niche themes covered at Cheesey Studios, great vid Caleb ❤❤
I had two of the wolf sets growing up. The build of it was fascinating. I was a very lucky kid to receive the fortress as a Christmas gift. I remember staying up to build the whole thing. Once I was done, my cat inspected it and proceeded to sit inside. This theme is ultimately not my cup of tea, but the unique parts it introduced alone were enough reason to get them.
When I was younger I read through plenty of the older Lego catalogues my older sister accumulated over the years. To this day I still remember that my attention was always drawn to Jörmungandr. I think it still holds up as some of the best serpent/dragon builds Lego has ever done.
Just checked our Viking chess set and I can confirm that it's only the horns that are glued to the helmet, the rest of the figures aren't (it's still kinda stupid though because a lot of the horns are wonky and you can't rotate them like this 🙄) Nice to see you revisited this theme, it was really fun playing with the big ship with my siblings al those years ago. Thanks for these revisiting videos, they're my favourites. (can't wait to get the viking village too)
The Viking Ship and Midgard Serpent was the one set I got from this theme. Around the time of its release, I learned that I had Norwegian heritage, which meant that there were likely some vikings in my ancestry, and I thought it was so cool that LEGO was making a Viking theme. Star Wars was likely the reason why I never picked up more, but I kept that ship and serpent together for a long time before I finally needed the shelf space for part storage. One of my absolute favorite minifigure heads is the guy with the wavy orange beard, and he even showed up in Aqua Raiders a few times. There's something about his design that just works, and when a build calls for a figure that's stern, serious, and tough, but also looks like he could be gentle and caring, I have to use him.
I was too young for that theme but I've always looked at it in older catalogues and advertisements on comic books, and I love it. In the last two years I've begun assembling my viking army for a moc I'm planning and I think those stickered shields are the most accurate you can get for viking minifigures, I genuinely enjoy them more than both the versions of the cmf vikings and also more than the shields in the new viking village... In fact I own around 30 at the moment.
Thank you! Sat in this one quite awhile to maximize on that sweet sweet Vikings hype. xD I hope the new set sells well - I'd love to see LEGO make a smaller Viking longboat to complement it!
I drooled over these sets as a kid in magazines and such! Never ended up getting any of these sets, but the boats were the ones I wanted the most. The second small set was one I oddly wanted the most, probably because it was one I'd realistically get out of all of them 😅
Ahhh the Vikings theme, it released just after I had gone into my dark age during my high-school/college years 🙃 My younger brother had all of these sets before his dark age started. Really glad LEGO is bringing back a new Viking set this year!
I think you should have mentioned the legoland viking ride, I have very clear memories of it. It's one of the few rides appealing to relatively older aged kids. I think that also helped in making vikings endure more
These were a big part of my childhood. I'm only missing the one with the catapult and the Ofnir Dragon. All of them are great playsets and the figures are so fantastic with their speckled helmets and armor pieces. If only more of them would've been included in the sets. Though at the price points they were at, I can see why more werent included. My favourite set must be the ship with the Midgard Serpent. Just so much greatness!
Forever grateful to my uncle for getting me the entire Viking Line collection one year for Christmas. I eventually lost the pieces but I’ll never forget the time I spent playing with them.
this is by far the coolest and probably most ambitious theme you've covered and probably that even exist in lego. its a shame they don't do anything like this anymore and barely any in-house themes.
Indeed... This theme will always be quite memorable because of it though. I would love another original Vikings line, but it sure feels unlikely since we can't even get a standalone castle theme these days ,😭
As a mythology nerd I love the names of these sets. In Norse mythology Fenrir is a giant wolf and one of Loki's sons, Niddhog is the dragon that naws at the roots of the world tree Yggdrasill as well as the corpses of murders and oath-breakers, the midgard serpent is also called Jörmungandr and is another of Loki's sons and he is also so big that he wraps himself around the earth hence his name, Fafnir was a dwarf who (long story short) ended up turned into a dragon.
2005 was the year that sparked my obsession with Lego, specifically all the Star Wars LEGO being released at the time. But I also have vivid memories of getting some of these Viking sets around the same time and really enjoying them. Love to see a review of the theme all these years later!
This viking on the boat fighting wyvern set was once presented to me by my uncle when I was a kid, in couple of years he had a surgery and he he didn’t make it, still miss him
I had Technic, System, and Bionicle as a kid. To me combining all of those was the coolest thing. I remember going to a Lego store as a kid that had that huge viking fortress on display, I was blown away. I got the big viking ship with serpent and the battle wagon with that awesome red dragon :)
A legendary theme for sure. I mean, I don't even own a single set, yet I remember it fondly! Having missed out, I did make sure to grab some of the Castle Fantasy sets when those came around. 7038 Troll Assault Wagon was the next (and I believe unfortunately the last) evolution of the Viking Catapult. I wonder if you might cover those next, or eventually..
In my opinion this them heavily influenced the first two years of Ninjago. Like, the early Ninjago dragons are just Bionicle with system armor. Anyway, awesome them. I never knew about the speckled boulders, man I miss those speckled colors 😢
Great video! I remember having the imagination stirred by seeing some of these sets on the store shelves as a kid, never had any though. A small correction: Viking age is generally considered late iron age and the medieval period begins when it ends.
Although I never got any of the sets, my favorite Viking set has to be the Viking Fortress at 16:30 . It’s such a great set and the wood design is superb! A great video man!
Loved these sets, had them all (except the last one) and made a huge play scene in my room with my brother using a blue blanket as the ocean between our beds. We also hung up the dragons around the house, hanging off lampposts, etc.. And this was the first theme we actually took apart and made our own stuff with later--I remember making an armored tank-like vehicle with the heavy artillery wagon wheels that was famous for being absolutely indestructible, no matter what we threw it at or at it. A proper revisit to this would be cool, but I'm not sure it would be quite the same without the bionicle stuff
This was a lot of fun to watch. I'm 45 yo and I was busy doing young adult stuff during this period, so I had no idea this theme existed! This came to my attention through the new lego viking village.
Awesome video!! Thank you for the information. I just got a copy of the Viking Village and am excited to expand my Vikings collection with some retired sets.
Oh wow the nostalgia you just hit me with... I remember the nidhogg vs ballista and big fort sets which I loved back then. I need to go through my boxes to find them again
I still remember how happy I was when my mom brought me to Toys'R'Us and I was able to pick the huge castle AND that bigger double catapult for my birthday! I still own both sets somewhere in my basement!
I was fortunate enough to get the Viking ship for Christmas, and it was absolutely awesome. The serpent is one of my favorite builds ever, and I still have it assembled on a shelf.
This brings back great memories! Even though the only set I remember having Was the 2006 heavy artillery wagon! I still have the minifigs and most of the parts probably, might try and rebuild! I remember that I had them fight against the Castle Theme Evil Skeletons back in the day!! Great Video thank you for showing These awesome sets
as a kid, i found a very simple and effective way to add a sail to the small boat: -technic "angle connector #2" attached to the hole midway up the mast with a technic pin. -2 long straight rigid hose elements inserted into angle connector at a 45 degree angle to the ground -slide a triangle sail onto the hoses, add a clip piece to hose to hold it from sliding down -attach "rope with stud ends" to the bottom corner hole of the sail with a 1x1 round tile, and the other end of the rope somewhere in the boat to hold the sail where you want it. think im going to dig up this old set and buy those pieces to make the sail a permanent addition as i display it alongside the new viking village
I used to have these sets as a kid, but sold them at a garage sale. Now that I’m an adult and back into lego, I’m so mad I sold these. Really great sets all around
that’s actually crazy the longboat is almost the exact same design used in the hobbit lake town chase, from the 2 smaller boats put together, the shields in the middle, the flag on the top, the oar on the back
I got the "Viking ship with the Midgard Serpent" when i was 10 years old. I was the happiest kid in the world, my parents bought the last available one at the local store for Christmas. Still one of my fav. sets, i've rebuilt it several times. :)
While there were other set themes as well, my brother and I did have several of these Viking sets as kids. The fortress might have been the last one that joined when I was a child. Oh, and you unlocked a memory of mine there, we also had some of those dinosaurs.
I absolutely love my viking ship. Its just so huge to display so spends most of its life packed away. Would love the viking fortress. Great vid and the new viking set looks amazing
Great vid! I really like the Vikings sets, especially this Heavy Artillery Wagon! Thorgal comics introduced the Viking world for me many years ago and I still finds it fascinating. It's so cool that Danish company created a theme based on the Denmark history itself! I was never lucky enough to buy any of these awesome sets, but I have a Viking Couple (Male and Female) from old cmf series! Also, the technique of connecting two boats together was later reused in Lake Town (Esgaroth) set from Hobbit line. According to the Bricklink: only queens are glued togheter, all the Vikings has glued horns and rest shouldn't be - so good news!
My brothers and I had almost every set from this line! It was one of the few times our parents bought us the big sets which they usually couldn’t afford but they loved Vikings too! So many fun memories and it’s crazy to look back on it, the numerous minifigs for army building and the functional catapults and missile launchers were so fun!
The Fenris Wolf set was the first ever LEGO set I owned! My parents bought it for me when we went to LEGO-land, and is probably the reason I got into LEGO in the first place
I really hope you cover the Fantasy castle theme next, It's always been a favorite of mine and I would love to see all the sets together since I was never able to do that myself
I was given the second and third sets covered when I was small, and my brother had the first. We drooled over the other Viking sets in the catalog at the back of the instructions. Makes me so glad to have in hand the new creator viking long boat and the soon to be released viking Village covering out soon
Man--I never owned any sets, but my childhood friend and I built the fortress together the day he got it, and he gave me the dragon. What a guy. I still have the head and wings.
This brings back memories. I actually have all the 2005 sets; I used to play with them all the time when I was a child, but somehow they all are still complete after all those years. Now they sit in their boxes in my parents' basement, collecting dust...
I still remember owning the 3 smallest sets from Christmas, a surprise for new releases in 2005 and lots of cool parts to play with. I still find the string attached with bricks and mast in my collection.
My parents surprised me with all the kits except the ship and midgard serpent (which was out of stock unfortunately) on my best christmas ever. that was the last one that holiday still had magic for me. I kept that fortress together for a good 2 years.
Years ago, I bought two huges box full of Lego, and after excavating into it, I've found it included sets from that theme, unfortunately I only own the 3/4 of the piece. I currently have most of the second set you present with the special mouse piece in dark blue and the three big boat part from the vikings' boat. I dont really have the use of those huge piece and they aren't really practical to store. I might sell them once a day. Anyways, nice to see you so enthusiasm on that theme even if Ive never played with these sets :)
Mentally I've always grouped Vikings, Aqua Raiders, and Dino 2010 together as the early 00s "vehicle vs giant monster" sets, and retrospectively it's very interesting to see how radically different each theme's approach to monster design was. Aesthetically I feel the Vikings creatures were the most... questionable, however the sheer creativity present in their builds is truly inspiring.
The fact that the Ofnir set retailed for just 40 dollars baffles me. Even as a kid with little understanding of value for money I was amazed at how big that set was for that price.
the Viking chess set was weird in that the knight and rook (which were not minifigs) were glued, and the helmets had their horns glued in, but the minis were for the most part not glued. all in all it was a good army booster.
I love that they reused elements later on like reusing parts of the Vikings (1d) as the king for the fantasy era series in 2007 before he got he his own torso and leg!
I would love it if LEGO re-did/made anew "Vikings" line that still holds that classic nostalgia of the original line with mixing in new lego ideas and parts from over the years. Was born in 2005 so I was too young to truly enjoy any of the sets; plus we haven't had any series like it since then. Would really love if we got a brand new "Vikings" theme for lego.
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A dragon wearing a helmet. Beautiful. I also appreciate the serpent’s specialized head being molded with grooves that match the texture of the Rahkshi’s back. Makes it feel less out of place.
Impeccable taste as always Nick 👌👌
I wish themes like Vikings would make a comeback
I'm glad the Vikings team made as many new moulds for this theme as they did instead of repurposing unusual Bionicle parts for every situation. We got some pretty sweet head moulds out of this theme!
Granamyr wore a helmet sitting at home reading tomes of magic.
The mix of building systems for the creatures was an awesome idea from the designers. It really adds a touch of fantasy or otherworldliness to them. It may have been from a more limited parts selection of the time, but thematically its genius
Otherworldliness is such a great word for it!
it also shows Bionicle is far less incompatible with the "rest of the universe" as it's often stated.
@@kailahmann1823agreed. And there are a lot of ways to be compatible. I built one of my favorite starfighters almost exclusively from Bionicle-other than the three Bionicle donor sets, I only added minifig and a trans-red 1x1 round brick.
We're getting closer and closer to the Fantasy Castle retrospective that I NEEDD
One day, one day :)
I love to see this. I know the Vikings because my brother had them, but the castle knights were exactly in my time and i still proudly have the big castle on my shelf
With these sets being released in 2005 amid the major changes in Lego's business practices, part of me wonders if this theme was almost a response from the designers to prove the merit of the different branches of the Lego system and how well they could be integrated. Whether that's the case or not, this theme is certainly unique and I think almost every part of it has aged like a fine wine!
It could be the designers trying to tap into the success of Bionicle as well, or simple trying to give those expensive moulded pieces more purpose! 🤣 Either way, I think it's clear the design team for Vikings had a lot of fun with these parts.
I remember I was REALLY dissapointed when this series ended so fast. The Wolf was one of the few builds I never destroyed since I was a kid. Now it's a mount of my Orc shaman
Orc shaman riding a wolf? Lego WoW?
Yeah xD But Warccraft 3. I hate wow.
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Always felt this line would have paired well with the later Orc and Dwarf Fantasy Castle sublines. Lego really nailed this line for how short lived it was.
There's certainly a lot of crossover between the themes!
I need to call my parents and tell them how great my childhood was. I didn’t realize some of these kits were that expensive.
That's so wholesome. I think a lot of us owe our parents that call!
That image on the back of the box... was something I didn't know I would see again. My world was never the same after that. Important childhood memory unlocked. Thanks man, I hope Lego revives this iconic theme.
I'd sure love to see more Vikings from LEGO too. We'll see what happens!
I got them all growing up! I loved this theme, and wish there were more. I felt like Ofnir was too big as a kid, but looking back, I loved it. The fortress was my favorite. Stockpiled all of my Viking there as they invaded my medieval castles and villages. Good times.
They made a dual molded Tahu’s fire sword? Dude! That’s sick, what a great upgrade for THE most recognizable Bionicle character.
from what I remember from looking at bricklink, the dual molded tahu sword has actually appeared in more sets than the original solid red one
The viking boat in the second set you looked at (the one with the Wyvern) has an almost identical boat build to the one found in one of the hobbit lake town sets.
I'll have to give that set another look!
@@CheeseyStudios just goes to show how good of a design this original viking ship really is
Vikings is such an underrated and just not known theme. I think you dropped this video at the absolute perfect time with the brand new viking village. Its great to see these niche themes covered at Cheesey Studios, great vid Caleb ❤❤
Thank you!
Got a feeling a lot of people will be revisiting vikings this year :p
Love this series and always appreciate your commentary ✌🏻
True that 🤣 Just gotta make sure mine is better I suppose lol! Glad you're enjoying the series.
I had two of the wolf sets growing up. The build of it was fascinating. I was a very lucky kid to receive the fortress as a Christmas gift. I remember staying up to build the whole thing. Once I was done, my cat inspected it and proceeded to sit inside. This theme is ultimately not my cup of tea, but the unique parts it introduced alone were enough reason to get them.
If cat fits, cat sits.
I came, I saw, I fit, I sit
That cat story is great
When I was younger I read through plenty of the older Lego catalogues my older sister accumulated over the years. To this day I still remember that my attention was always drawn to Jörmungandr. I think it still holds up as some of the best serpent/dragon builds Lego has ever done.
That moulded head really does work wonders
Just checked our Viking chess set and I can confirm that it's only the horns that are glued to the helmet, the rest of the figures aren't (it's still kinda stupid though because a lot of the horns are wonky and you can't rotate them like this 🙄)
Nice to see you revisited this theme, it was really fun playing with the big ship with my siblings al those years ago. Thanks for these revisiting videos, they're my favourites.
(can't wait to get the viking village too)
The Viking Ship and Midgard Serpent was the one set I got from this theme. Around the time of its release, I learned that I had Norwegian heritage, which meant that there were likely some vikings in my ancestry, and I thought it was so cool that LEGO was making a Viking theme. Star Wars was likely the reason why I never picked up more, but I kept that ship and serpent together for a long time before I finally needed the shelf space for part storage. One of my absolute favorite minifigure heads is the guy with the wavy orange beard, and he even showed up in Aqua Raiders a few times. There's something about his design that just works, and when a build calls for a figure that's stern, serious, and tough, but also looks like he could be gentle and caring, I have to use him.
The creativity of this line is astounding especially for early 2000s. Cudos to the designers. ( another amazing video cheesey)
Appreciate it! I imagine the designers had a ton of fun with this one.
I was too young for that theme but I've always looked at it in older catalogues and advertisements on comic books, and I love it. In the last two years I've begun assembling my viking army for a moc I'm planning and I think those stickered shields are the most accurate you can get for viking minifigures, I genuinely enjoy them more than both the versions of the cmf vikings and also more than the shields in the new viking village... In fact I own around 30 at the moment.
Such an absolutely amazing theme. What a solid retrospective. Timing of this couldn’t have been any better with the new set coming soon’
Thank you! Sat in this one quite awhile to maximize on that sweet sweet Vikings hype. xD I hope the new set sells well - I'd love to see LEGO make a smaller Viking longboat to complement it!
I just love the color schemes on each viking, really striking designs!
And it's crazy how creative this theme was for a filler
Agreed! The designers really had no limits it seems, and they sure had fun with that freedom!
I drooled over these sets as a kid in magazines and such! Never ended up getting any of these sets, but the boats were the ones I wanted the most. The second small set was one I oddly wanted the most, probably because it was one I'd realistically get out of all of them 😅
Hey, that boat is still the best in my opinion!
Ahhh the Vikings theme, it released just after I had gone into my dark age during my high-school/college years 🙃 My younger brother had all of these sets before his dark age started. Really glad LEGO is bringing back a new Viking set this year!
I think you should have mentioned the legoland viking ride, I have very clear memories of it. It's one of the few rides appealing to relatively older aged kids. I think that also helped in making vikings endure more
I wish I had known about it!
These were a big part of my childhood. I'm only missing the one with the catapult and the Ofnir Dragon. All of them are great playsets and the figures are so fantastic with their speckled helmets and armor pieces. If only more of them would've been included in the sets. Though at the price points they were at, I can see why more werent included.
My favourite set must be the ship with the Midgard Serpent. Just so much greatness!
My favourite theme. Still have the big ship. My dream set was the fortress. Never got it, but I had a bunch of the smaller sets. Loved this so much
Forever grateful to my uncle for getting me the entire Viking Line collection one year for Christmas. I eventually lost the pieces but I’ll never forget the time I spent playing with them.
this is by far the coolest and probably most ambitious theme you've covered and probably that even exist in lego. its a shame they don't do anything like this anymore and barely any in-house themes.
Indeed... This theme will always be quite memorable because of it though. I would love another original Vikings line, but it sure feels unlikely since we can't even get a standalone castle theme these days ,😭
That sail is GORGEOUS. Lego would charge so much for that now
As a mythology nerd I love the names of these sets. In Norse mythology Fenrir is a giant wolf and one of Loki's sons, Niddhog is the dragon that naws at the roots of the world tree Yggdrasill as well as the corpses of murders and oath-breakers, the midgard serpent is also called Jörmungandr and is another of Loki's sons and he is also so big that he wraps himself around the earth hence his name, Fafnir was a dwarf who (long story short) ended up turned into a dragon.
Oh sweet! The designers clearly did their research for this theme
2005 was the year that sparked my obsession with Lego, specifically all the Star Wars LEGO being released at the time. But I also have vivid memories of getting some of these Viking sets around the same time and really enjoying them. Love to see a review of the theme all these years later!
The 2000s were a great time to be a LEGO fan - there were so many great themes and sets then!
This viking on the boat fighting wyvern set was once presented to me by my uncle when I was a kid, in couple of years he had a surgery and he he didn’t make it, still miss him
I had Technic, System, and Bionicle as a kid. To me combining all of those was the coolest thing. I remember going to a Lego store as a kid that had that huge viking fortress on display, I was blown away. I got the big viking ship with serpent and the battle wagon with that awesome red dragon :)
A legendary theme for sure. I mean, I don't even own a single set, yet I remember it fondly! Having missed out, I did make sure to grab some of the Castle Fantasy sets when those came around. 7038 Troll Assault Wagon was the next (and I believe unfortunately the last) evolution of the Viking Catapult. I wonder if you might cover those next, or eventually..
Fantasy Era Castle is definitely on the list :) Maybe some time next year if I can get all the sets!
Your content is impeccable, I love this theme, it's so representative of my childhood.
In my opinion this them heavily influenced the first two years of Ninjago. Like, the early Ninjago dragons are just Bionicle with system armor. Anyway, awesome them. I never knew about the speckled boulders, man I miss those speckled colors 😢
the soccer spring launcher was one of the best launchers lego ever put out
just loved the army of vikings set! that thing is so satisfying to shoot and the army in a box concept rocks
I wish I had had that one as a kid! But I'm sure glad I can still appreciate it as an adult. 😅 These sets were fantastic.
Great video! I remember having the imagination stirred by seeing some of these sets on the store shelves as a kid, never had any though. A small correction: Viking age is generally considered late iron age and the medieval period begins when it ends.
I adore these 'retrospective' videos. They make appreciate Lego and my childhood sets so much more
Really glad you like them! They're sure a joy to make.
I just remembered that I had the Viking fortress growing up and found your video to relive my childhood
Glad I could bring back some good memories ❤️
Although I never got any of the sets, my favorite Viking set has to be the Viking Fortress at 16:30 . It’s such a great set and the wood design is superb! A great video man!
Thank you! ❤️
The mini figure body with printed scale mail is perfect fot creating Rohan soldiers. It looks realy like some of the costumes in the movies.
Loved these sets, had them all (except the last one) and made a huge play scene in my room with my brother using a blue blanket as the ocean between our beds. We also hung up the dragons around the house, hanging off lampposts, etc.. And this was the first theme we actually took apart and made our own stuff with later--I remember making an armored tank-like vehicle with the heavy artillery wagon wheels that was famous for being absolutely indestructible, no matter what we threw it at or at it.
A proper revisit to this would be cool, but I'm not sure it would be quite the same without the bionicle stuff
Ah yes! I think you unlocked a deep memory of my own with the blue blanket water 😂 Those were the days...
This was a lot of fun to watch. I'm 45 yo and I was busy doing young adult stuff during this period, so I had no idea this theme existed! This came to my attention through the new lego viking village.
Awesome video!! Thank you for the information. I just got a copy of the Viking Village and am excited to expand my Vikings collection with some retired sets.
Thank you! Hope you can pick up a few of these without too much trouble. You're in for a treat!
Oh wow the nostalgia you just hit me with... I remember the nidhogg vs ballista and big fort sets which I loved back then. I need to go through my boxes to find them again
They're so much fun to rebuild! I hope you can get all the parts together again
that small viking boat will be perfect size for the new viking village set. I cant wait to display them together!
Yes! I plan on doing the same thing
I like to think having to remove that mast to get the treasure is a reference to ships hiding loot or valuables in the deck of the ship
Could be! Do wish you didn't have to dismantle the ship to get to it though 😂
I still remember how happy I was when my mom brought me to Toys'R'Us and I was able to pick the huge castle AND that bigger double catapult for my birthday! I still own both sets somewhere in my basement!
Ah, I do miss the Toys'R'Us days. I've got lots of good memories of birthday visits, too...
no gonna lie, Vikings as always been my favorite theme over on lego. im so glad you decided to give them a episode dude, really good video
Really appreciate it! This theme really is one-of-a-kind. Glad to see it brought back into the spotlight again for a bit with the new Viking Village.
i would have really appreciate it to have some kind of brick build monster using new technique element of 2023
I was fortunate enough to get the Viking ship for Christmas, and it was absolutely awesome. The serpent is one of my favorite builds ever, and I still have it assembled on a shelf.
That ship is a classic 👌
We here at Cheesey Studios love LEGO Vikings and pray for an official return
This ^^
This brings back great memories! Even though the only set I remember having Was the 2006 heavy artillery wagon! I still have the minifigs and most of the parts probably, might try and rebuild! I remember that I had them fight against the Castle Theme Evil Skeletons back in the day!! Great Video thank you for showing These awesome sets
It's my pleasure! Really glad you enjoyed ❤️
as a kid, i found a very simple and effective way to add a sail to the small boat:
-technic "angle connector #2" attached to the hole midway up the mast with a technic pin.
-2 long straight rigid hose elements inserted into angle connector at a 45 degree angle to the ground
-slide a triangle sail onto the hoses, add a clip piece to hose to hold it from sliding down
-attach "rope with stud ends" to the bottom corner hole of the sail with a 1x1 round tile, and the other end of the rope somewhere in the boat to hold the sail where you want it.
think im going to dig up this old set and buy those pieces to make the sail a permanent addition as i display it alongside the new viking village
I used to have these sets as a kid, but sold them at a garage sale. Now that I’m an adult and back into lego, I’m so mad I sold these. Really great sets all around
that’s actually crazy the longboat is almost the exact same design used in the hobbit lake town chase, from the 2 smaller boats put together, the shields in the middle, the flag on the top, the oar on the back
I missed this range because in 2005 I was in 2nd year uni (20-21) thanks for the comprehensive review and for making me feel old 😛
Your videos are the rare kind of videos that I wish I could forget it and go back to enjoy it again, like a favorite video game!
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoy these
I love this guy, he’s like the Scott the Woz of Lego
Ha! I am flattered ❤️
Vikings.
"We're hemorrhaging money with these custom Bionicle molds, how the hell can we repurpose them?"
It's pretty bonkers how many other themes featured Bionicle parts during this era. They certainly were trying to get their money's worth!
I had fenris-set and dragon-half of the dragon+arrowcatapult-thingy. Love the dragon head molds in this.
The dragon heads were super cool. Great shapes on them 👌
I got the "Viking ship with the Midgard Serpent" when i was 10 years old. I was the happiest kid in the world, my parents bought the last available one at the local store for Christmas. Still one of my fav. sets, i've rebuilt it several times. :)
Such a good set 👌
Was looking forward to this one so much! Thanks for the video :)
That tile in the 2006 set with the serpents heads was also in the green grocer (3 of them) awesome pieces!
I totally forgot about that! I remember them from the 2007 Hogwarts Castle. I think those were their only 2 other appearances!
While there were other set themes as well, my brother and I did have several of these Viking sets as kids. The fortress might have been the last one that joined when I was a child.
Oh, and you unlocked a memory of mine there, we also had some of those dinosaurs.
Loved this era of LEGO. I'm hoping to cover those dinosaurs in a separate video at some point too!
I absolutely love my viking ship. Its just so huge to display so spends most of its life packed away. Would love the viking fortress. Great vid and the new viking set looks amazing
Thank you! That ship is surely iconic
Awesome video! Hyped for the village!🤙
Me too! I can't wait for October :D
Great vid! I really like the Vikings sets, especially this Heavy Artillery Wagon! Thorgal comics introduced the Viking world for me many years ago and I still finds it fascinating. It's so cool that Danish company created a theme based on the Denmark history itself! I was never lucky enough to buy any of these awesome sets, but I have a Viking Couple (Male and Female) from old cmf series! Also, the technique of connecting two boats together was later reused in Lake Town (Esgaroth) set from Hobbit line. According to the Bricklink: only queens are glued togheter, all the Vikings has glued horns and rest shouldn't be - so good news!
That sure is a relief regarding the glue!
My brothers and I had almost every set from this line! It was one of the few times our parents bought us the big sets which they usually couldn’t afford but they loved Vikings too! So many fun memories and it’s crazy to look back on it, the numerous minifigs for army building and the functional catapults and missile launchers were so fun!
My brother and I made a lot of great memories with these too. So many great launching mechanisms xD
The Fenris Wolf set was the first ever LEGO set I owned! My parents bought it for me when we went to LEGO-land, and is probably the reason I got into LEGO in the first place
Man, I remember getting the viking ship for my birthday, good times! Definitely one of my favorite lines Lego has done!
Beautiful video, entertaining all the way through! So cool
Really appreciate it!
I really hope you cover the Fantasy castle theme next, It's always been a favorite of mine and I would love to see all the sets together since I was never able to do that myself
It's definitely on my list! I have a good chunk of the sets, but missing a few key ones from the Troll wave
I was given the second and third sets covered when I was small, and my brother had the first. We drooled over the other Viking sets in the catalog at the back of the instructions. Makes me so glad to have in hand the new creator viking long boat and the soon to be released viking Village covering out soon
Can't wait to pick up the new village!
I just got the ship, it's my childhood lol. I remember seeing the cover art in a lego magazine
It's an absolutely legendary set 👌
The viking longship would forever be the flagship of my armies when my friend and i would play "lego battles"
Yesssss. It's glorious!
Man--I never owned any sets, but my childhood friend and I built the fortress together the day he got it, and he gave me the dragon.
What a guy. I still have the head and wings.
That's so wholesome
This brings back memories. I actually have all the 2005 sets; I used to play with them all the time when I was a child, but somehow they all are still complete after all those years. Now they sit in their boxes in my parents' basement, collecting dust...
I still remember owning the 3 smallest sets from Christmas, a surprise for new releases in 2005 and lots of cool parts to play with. I still find the string attached with bricks and mast in my collection.
I'd recommend even building that one back together if you can - it's so cool!
My parents surprised me with all the kits except the ship and midgard serpent (which was out of stock unfortunately) on my best christmas ever. that was the last one that holiday still had magic for me. I kept that fortress together for a good 2 years.
What a way to start my new school year, a 30mins cheeses video!!!
Get hypppeeeddddd
Years ago, I bought two huges box full of Lego, and after excavating into it, I've found it included sets from that theme, unfortunately I only own the 3/4 of the piece. I currently have most of the second set you present with the special mouse piece in dark blue and the three big boat part from the vikings' boat. I dont really have the use of those huge piece and they aren't really practical to store.
I might sell them once a day.
Anyways, nice to see you so enthusiasm on that theme even if Ive never played with these sets :)
these sets are a great example of why people are wrong when they say Bionicle parts cant be used in system builds
Indeed. I really love how the systems were blended together here!
These sets lived on as Viking River Splash at both LEGOLAND Billund and Windsor. Sadly the Windsor ride was announced to be closing only last week.
That's so sad 😭
Another theme I didn’t know about and WANT!! My Lego knowledge is humbled again ha.
I remember getting the viking longboat as a birthday present when i was a child. Good times.
That's such a great set 👌
"...dinosaurs, and some of them were quite terrifi-*zooms in and noise*""Aaaargh! says me for a split second".
spooky
Your creativity is astonishing. Never stop making people like me so happy. Thanks 🙏
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Mentally I've always grouped Vikings, Aqua Raiders, and Dino 2010 together as the early 00s "vehicle vs giant monster" sets, and retrospectively it's very interesting to see how radically different each theme's approach to monster design was. Aesthetically I feel the Vikings creatures were the most... questionable, however the sheer creativity present in their builds is truly inspiring.
The designers truly went wild with Vikings, that's for sure! No piece seemed to be off-limits
The early 2000s set themes were always so creative and unique. My favorite themes were Lego Castle, Star Wars the Clone Wars, and Pirates.
It was a great time to be a LEGO fan!
My theory was always that the final set was a flashback to the mission where the Viking King proved himself and became king, hence the minifigure
Ooh, I like that explanation!
The fact that the Ofnir set retailed for just 40 dollars baffles me. Even as a kid with little understanding of value for money I was amazed at how big that set was for that price.
Today they'd sell that for what, $80, $90? Boggles my mind too! A great great set.
Core memory: coming downstairs on Christmas morning 2005 to find the Longboat vs Midgard Serpent and Fortress sets under the tree
Good times :)
the Viking chess set was weird in that the knight and rook (which were not minifigs) were glued, and the helmets had their horns glued in, but the minis were for the most part not glued. all in all it was a good army booster.
So bizarre 🤔 Glad the minis are useable though!
I love that they reused elements later on like reusing parts of the Vikings (1d) as the king for the fantasy era series in 2007 before he got he his own torso and leg!
They really introduced some great new minifigure parts in this kind!
I was 7 years old when these came out, got the entire wave. Pure nostalgia 😍
I would love it if LEGO re-did/made anew "Vikings" line that still holds that classic nostalgia of the original line with mixing in new lego ideas and parts from over the years.
Was born in 2005 so I was too young to truly enjoy any of the sets; plus we haven't had any series like it since then. Would really love if we got a brand new "Vikings" theme for lego.
A new Vikings line could be so much fun
The last set is probably my favourite, the armoured dragon looks sick
It's so good. Really something special, even when LEGO has done so many dragons at this point!