LEGOStories & Themes Knights Kingdom Figure: Vladek (8786)

I'm an AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego), so I didn't think the action figure would be the greatest thing ever. I got the Costco set of three Jayko, Santis, and Valdek for Christmas. I was surprised that the arm and leg pieces have plenty of studs on them for "real" Lego pieces to connect to. The joints are very nice, though, and provide many degrees of freedom and good strong clicking into position. These pieces can be put together several different ways. I built three knights by using more or fewer jointed segments in arms and legs, a tall knight, a medium knight, and a short knight. My one year old son likes playing with the short knight, called King Ian the Bold!As action figures go, however, the helmets don't stay on very well, and neither do the heads. Some of the odd shaped armor falls off if you pick it up by grabbing these natural 'handles'. The shields fall off at the slightest blow from another figure's sword blow (a lever in the back makes one arm swing up and down).All the knights are the exact same design. They each have different colors on their arm and leg ends, with a different face and helmet design. There are pieces that snap on as "armor". One uses standard lego roof pieces for most of this, the rest use somewhat more custom looking pieces that I cannot imagine much reuse in other models. Although some of these odd armor pieces just showed up in my latest Lego Cargo Train set as hoods, bumpers, wheel wells, etc for the trucks.I see many applications for the joint pieces in my Mindstorm based robots. There, I'm always having trouble geting the mechanicals right for sturdy arbitrary angles, which is exactly what these joints do best.[...]

My five year old son has three of these knights, and he enjoys playing with them with his older brother, who has Bioncles. These are easier to assemble than the Bioncles, and he is able to put all of the pieces together himself as long as I supervise. A good value for the money, and it gives him a real sense of accomplishment to build them.

My boys Love these!

This is Vladek the dark knight. He wants to use the Book of Morcia to rule Morcia.This set is very fun. The arms, legs, elbows, feet, knees, and head can all move. The shield comes off sometimes, but it is easy to fix. This is a good Lego set.

These are real play action toys that don't fall apart like regular lego's; my son thinks they are great.

My son loves all of the Lego Knights Kingdom figures. They are very easy for a 7 year old to put together on their own, which is great for Lego. They offer hours of fantasy play fun. The one problem is that the shields fall off so easily that they are a constant source of frustration, and ultimately must just be put away. Otherwise these are very fun toys, durable, and great for your knights-loving child.