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Re: KKII vs. Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:58:47 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Yaron Dori wrote:
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I hope this won’t make too much noise. Just a few thoughts I had...
In 1987 there was a cartoon series on TV - knowen as ‘Visionaries: Knights of
the Magical Light’. The series wasn’t that a big succsess and only survived
one season and I’m not sure how many of you heard or rememebr that series.
On the first instance I looked on the new KKII I thought they look too much
the same.
I took some photos from the series in compare with KKII (that you’ll able to
see by clicking the picture):
And all I can say - judge for yourself. I really want to know what other
thinks.
P.S. I am not in anyway suggesting that TLC copied from that series, just
that maybe their designers grow up on the series and (knowingly or not
knowingly) inspired by it (or worse, they saw that series as kids and as far
as they know knights really looks like that - they weren’t real knights in
the series as well:)
Yaron Dori
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I used to watch the show and had a few of the toys, so back when the first image
of the new Knight’s Kingdom minifig sets came out
(the big one that that
showed them all), the first thought that popped into my head was that they
looked like Visionaries. (I mentioned the similarity in a thread over at FBTB,
but it was back when the forums were on ezboard, and the thread is long gone
now.) Basically, to me, instead of looking medieval, they appeared more
futuristic and fantasy based. I was particularly suspicious of 8779 (later
revealed to be The Grand Tournament) which featured “horses on wheels;” but, I
finally decided that the wheels and launching mechanism were just for added play
value, and not necessarily an attempt to futurize the Castle theme. Still, I
wasn’t sure why they had chosen to do the armor in different colors. But, when
the pictures started coming out of the larger Knights Kingdom action figures, I
finally realized that the minifigs’ multi-colored armor is only due to their
tie-in with the action figures, which like the Bionicle toys, come in several
different colors.
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