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LEGO Dragons
JudgeChuck
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So, nice, easy question for you all... How many LEGO Dragons (or Wyverns) do you have, from all themes?
I'll kick off with:
30422 Kai's Mini Dragon
70734 Master Wu Dragon
70738 Final Flight of Destiny's Bounty - Is this meant to be a small Morro's Dragon, or just a generic one?
70748 Titanium Dragon
70593 The Green NRG Dragon
70599 Cole's Dragon
70602 Jay's Elemental Dragon
31032 Red Creatures
21107 The End - I think that The Ender Dragon in this set *just* counts!
21117 The Ender Dragon - The proper one!
79018 The Lonely Mountain - Smaug, of course!
Over to you!
I'll kick off with:
30422 Kai's Mini Dragon
70734 Master Wu Dragon
70738 Final Flight of Destiny's Bounty - Is this meant to be a small Morro's Dragon, or just a generic one?
70748 Titanium Dragon
70593 The Green NRG Dragon
70599 Cole's Dragon
70602 Jay's Elemental Dragon
31032 Red Creatures
21107 The End - I think that The Ender Dragon in this set *just* counts!
21117 The Ender Dragon - The proper one!
79018 The Lonely Mountain - Smaug, of course!
Over to you!
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At the moment, I think #70593 The Green NRG Dragon is my current favourite. It's large, has some great green parts, the head looks fantastic and as for those wings... :-)
Besides those, I have:
Norbert from #4707 Hagrid's Hut (along with the same dragon piece used as ornamentation in other sets)
#7017 Viking Catapult versus the Nidhogg Dragon
#7019 Viking Fortress against the Fafnir Dragon
Shard from #2260 Ice Dragon Attack
Flame from #2507 Fire Temple
Rocky from #2509 Earth Dragon Defense
Wisp from #2521 Lightning Dragon Battle
Ultra Dragon from #9450 Epic Dragon Battle
#70725 Nindroid MechDragon
#70748 Titanium Dragon
#70734 Master Wu Dragon
#70736 Attack of the Morro Dragon
Ghost dragons from #70735 Ronin R.E.X. and #70738 Final Flight of Destiny's Bounty
#70602 Jay's Elemental Dragon
#10204 Vezon & Kardas (I don't have this set specifically, but I have the three component sets and have built the combination model).
#44009 Dragon Bolt
Miku from #41077 Aira's Pegasus Sleigh
Merina from #41172 The Water Dragon Adventure
Spark from #41174 The Starlight Inn
Zonya from #41175 Fire Dragon's Lava Cave
Thorne from #41176 The Secret Market Place
Rayne and Gust from #41178 The Dragon Sanctuary
Elandra from #41179 Queen Dragon's Rescue
Estari from #41180 Ragana's Magic Shadow Castle
Still hoping to pick up the two baby Elves dragons I'm missing! Other than that I think I'm mostly content with my collection for now.
Favorite dragon? Tough question! I really love both Master Wu Dragon and Elandra the Queen Dragon. Master Wu Dragon is more rugged and angular, while Elandra is more streamlined and graceful. Master Wu Dragon has two more points of articulation (20 vs. 18), while Elandra is a lot bigger and more muscular. I'm not sure I can pick a favorite out of those two.
Epic dragon battle
Master Wu's dragon
Attack of the Morro dragon
Final flight of Destiny Bounty
Kai's mini dragon
Bat lord x2
Witch's windship
Traitor's transport
Night lord castle
My favourite would probably be the Morro dragon if I had built it, but so far it's the ultra dragon.
And looks like I've got 18 of them (29 including duplicates), though surprised to see lots of dragons under the Elves theme :)
That's not even all of the dragons I own! I also have Dragon Bolt and one of the classic 90's dragons, and all the dragon-esque Mixels (if they count) (not pictured). In fact, the only dragons I don't have are the Hungarian Horntail, the 2 large Creator dragons, the Ollie sculpture and a couple of others. I even had a Hungarian Horntail a few years ago, I really regret ever selling it on. I think it's safe to say that LEGO know that the way to the contents of my wallet is through dragons!
As for favourite dragon, the Green NRG dragon and Smaug are tied for my favourites. I just really really like foldable wings.
Master Wu (I just love the face on this one)
Morro (close second just for the size)
Titanium - Jay's elemental (joint)
Green NRG (would much prefer front legs)
Red Creatures
Cole's
Mini-Cowler lookalike from Blaster Bike set.
Looking forward to next year as that appears to be bringing a double-headed one, and also to seeing if I can adapt the Creator t-rex into a green dragon with wings from the Ideas Birds set.
Or the "Lava Dragon" from the game:
By my quick count, I have at least 58-- but about 20 of those are "baby" dragons like Norbert and the baby Elves dragons. And I'll bet I've got a bunch more unaccounted-for classic green/black dragons, since I believe I got a bunch in unsorted lots over the years. So... maybe 60-70 all told?
DaveE
A quick search in the BS DB shows 71 sets tagged "Dragon", including one unreleased Ninjago set, but that Duplo dragon is missing, so I wonder what the grand total is...
- "Classic" Green w/ Black wings
- "Classic" Black w/ Trans-Orange wings
- "Classic" Green w/ Red wings
- Green Fantasy Era
- Black Fantasy Era
- Dk Red Fantasy Era
- Red Dragon Mountain
- Orient Expedition black dragon
- Onfir Dragon (Vikings)
- Wyvern (Vikings)
- Nidhogg (Vikings)
- Fanfir (Vikings)
- Fanfir Baby (Vikings)
- DUPLO Green Dragon
- DUPLO Armored Black Dragon
- DUPLO Dark Red Dragon
- DUPLO Black Un-armored Dragon
- DUPLO "Stuffy"
- Fire Dragon
- Lightning Dragon
- Ice Dragon
- Earth Dragon
- Ultra Dragon
- Nindroid MechDragon
- Ghost Dragon (70733)
- Ghost Dragon (70735)
- Un-named Dragon? (30083)
- Golden Dragon
- Cowler Dragon
- Wu's Dragon
- Morro Dragon
- Morro's Ghost Dragon
- Titanium Dragon
- Micro Morro Dragon
- Kai's Mini Dragon
- Green NRG Dragon
- Cole's Dragon
- Jay's Elemental Dragon
- Kai's Dragon (magazine)
- Wu's Dragon (Dimensions)
- Lloyd's Dragon (Dimensions)
- Lava Dragon (Games)
- Elandra (Elves)
- Merina (Elves)
- Zonya (Elves)
- Thorne (Elves)
- Gust (Elves)
- Rayne (Elves)
- Spark (Elves)
- Floria (Elves)
- Fledge (Elves)
- Miku (Elves)
- Estari (Elves)
- Hungarian Horntail
- Norbert (Sand Green)
- Dk Green Baby Dragon (Norbert)
- Med. Stone Grey Baby Dragon (Norbert)
- Gold Baby Dragon (Norbert)
- Black Baby Dragon (Norbert)
- Smaug
- Creator X-Pod Dragon
- Creator Green Dragon
- Ollie (Dragon sculpture)
- Ollie (mini verison)
- Ollie (pre-built version)
- Ollie (Gunzberg promo)
- Ollie Keychain
- Monthly Model Build Dragon
- Dragon Bolt (Hero Factory)
- Ender Dragon (Minecraft)
So... what did I miss? I didn't look at Bionicle... are there any in there?
DaveE
DaveE
Personally, nothing tops the castle dragons that I have from the 90's sets. Those are truly fit to form.
Kanohi Dragon and Phase Dragon were building contest entries that ended up getting published in the "Bionicle: Rahi Beasts" guide book and incorporated into the Bionicle story. The Hordika Dragons were an entry in a similar building contest the next year that were published in the "Bionicle: Dark Hunters" guide book. But none of those three were ever released as sets.
From a nostalgic perspective I like those older dragons, but these days both brick-built and molded dragons tend to have a lot more posability (6 points of articulation was a lot for a LEGO creature back then, but today even the most basic LEGO Castle dragons offer twice that). Also, I've come to greatly prefer colored eyes, whether printed or brick-built, over molded cavities like the old shark, crocodile, and dragon. LEGO "people" have colored eyes, so why not LEGO animals and monsters as well?
71) Hikaki Dragon Lizard (Bionicle)
72) Kardas Dragon (Bionicle)
73) Mini-Ender Dragon (Minecraft)
74) Red Creator Dragon (31032)
The other Bionicle dragons sound like they probably shouldn't be included, since LEGO didn't design them and no formal instructions seem to have been released. Seems like including those would mean we'd have to include "mentioned" dragons in other storylines or otherwise, which is too much for my tastes.
And of course, we know about a few upcoming dragons in Ninjago and Elves, too, as I recall. But no pictures yet (that I'm aware of).
DaveE
#41179 Queen Dragon's Rescue
#41176 The Secret Market Place
#41178 The Dragon Sanctuary
#70734 Master Wu Dragon
#70593 The Green NRG Dragon
#41175 Fire Dragon's Lava Cave
#70748 Titanium Dragon
#70602 Jay's Elemental Dragon
#31032 Red Creatures
#41172 The Water Dragon Adventure
#70599 Cole's Dragon
#30422 Kai's Mini Dragon
#71329 Lloyd (Dimensions build)
#41174 Starlight Inn (baby dragon)
#41177 The Precious Crystal Mine (baby dragon)
#41173 Elvendale School of Dragons (baby dragon)
#41171 Emily Jones & the Baby Wind Dragon
Have yet to add:
#41108 Ragana's Magic Shadow Castle (another of the baby dragons)
I just have these three:
#70593 The Green NRG Dragon (just finished building it this afternoon and I think is my favourite due to the folding fabric wings)
#70599 Cole's Dragon
#70602 Jay's Elemental Dragon
And I hope to get #30422 Kai's Mini Dragon soon.
May have to get looking at the others!
Also, Ollie's head appears in 40145 - LEGO Brand Retail Store.
If anyone is looking to collect them all, I have three that are not so common: The Duplo Brick, the monthly mini-build and the Ollie Keychain. Send me a PM....
Ollie's head in 40145, though... hm... maybe?
DaveE
Of course, "traditional" is a pretty vague description, since European dragons even from the oldest legends and heraldry could vary wildly. Some had two legs and two arms like the LEGO Castle dragons, some had two legs and no arms like Smaug, some had four legs like the LEGO Elves dragons, and some had no legs at all!
I used to prefer molded dragons in many respects due to feeling more lifelike and truer to the style of the minifigure and other LEGO animals like the horse and crocodile. But I feel like brick-built creatures have evolved a lot due to new parts like curved slopes and the joint pieces from the Mixels sets. It says a lot when a brick-built dragon like Thorne, Zonya, or Elandra can fit in next to a mini-doll, despite the mini-doll having an even less blocky design language than the traditional minifigure. I see more potential for brick-built dragons to continue to evolve in the future than their molded counterparts.
I might be fonder of molded creatures if they were more customizable. I enjoyed the 2001 Dinosaurs sets, as unrealistic as they were, because I liked the sense of using the same system of parts to create many different types of creature. Newer dragon and dinosaur molds still have plenty of connection points and are much more customizable than 90s dragon and dinosaur molds, but don't give me quite that same sense of creative freedom that those Dinosaurs sets did.
I never liked the look of the "creature-system" Dinosaurs (used in dinosaurs, elephants, dewbacks, etc), since they looked... strange. Some creatures looked ok in that system, others just looked unnatural.
The brick-built dragons in Vikings started to give dragons a lot more articulation, but they didn't look as organic, since they used a lot of Bionicle elements that make them look more like dragon cyborgs. But they did offer much better articulation and customization! Ninjago is a bit better, but ... still a little too inorganic for me, generally.
I honestly think I like the style of the Elves dragons best, I think. They look pretty organic, they've got pretty good articulation, and they're about what "feels right" for the scale of a minifig-scale dragon. I haven't tried yet, but I'd love to copy the design of the Elves dragons in non-pastel colors, using other existing dragon heads, and see how they look.
DaveE
I like the idea of the Elves dragons, but they're far, far, *far* too twee for me, I'm afraid! ;-)
@davee123, you're right that the Ninjago dragons can look a little "cyborg-ish", which I think fits the theme, but I agree that they wouldn't be great for a more "realistic" looking dragon.
I love Smaug from #79018, but that's just a little bit too molded for me. I would prefer something that looks a little more "built"... Having said that, Smaug is just an extension of "bigfigs", such as the troll from #9473 The Mines of Moria or Dogshank from #70604 Tiger Widow Island, as well as many others, so I do accept the design choice made.
40019 Brickley the Sea Serpent
3300001 Brickley
;-)
I dunno. I guess I'd just leave 'em off personally, but there's clearly blurry territory.
DaveE
75) Bricks-And-More Dragon (5929)
76) Goblin King's Dragon (41183)
77) Baby Lula (Elves) (41187)
78) Sapphire (Elves) (41187)
79) Green Ninja Mech Dragon (70612)
80) Dragon Forge Dragon? (70627)
Does the Dragon in #70627 have a name?
DaveE
81) Green Ninja Mech Dragon (mini) (30428)
And... I'm not sure if I'd count this one in #70631, it looks more like it's intended to be a vehicle rather than an actual creature:
And we'll probably be getting another creator one in #31073 in 2018, but no official pictures yet!
DaveE
I think the Bot Drop Dragon also gets a name in the show, but I'm way behind on the show so I've only heard that second-hand.