While we didn’t get six blended masks last year, we did get 4 blended masks and two transparent coloured masks (Tahu’s Polybag mask and Gali’s Lego Tour mask) - which i think was close enough and probably Lego’s intention so that we’d have all the main Toa masks having some form of transparency. We also got the clear Tahu mask as an additional transparent mask.
That still leaves the massive open portion that people could easily get through to get deeper into the maze, avoiding the ‘Are you a Toa’ locking mechanism on the front.
Except the two transparent masks were for the Winter wave, and only one of them got a proper release.
This year there are three “missing” masks rather than just two. But going by past experience, I’d be happy merely if the three we get are canon.
And I wouldn’t believe it even if LEGO advertised one of the “missing” masks coming with a book, after the “exclusive” mask with last year’s activity book turned out to be an Ekimu villager mask re-release…
PS Surely the hole in the Labyrinth Umarak jumps out of was caused by the blocks falling from the ceiling just before? I don’t think it was always open like that.
I’m pretty sure the reason Ekimu has Tr Neon Green eyes is so it contrasts with his transparent mask. Making them blue would make the eyes practically invisible.
This. I don’t know why they did green eyes in the Kulta combo set, as blue eyes on that figure looks AMAZING. However, with a trans-blue mask, green eyes are pretty necessary…
Cause unlike the Toa he is consistent with his eye color. I HIGHLY doubt this has any story relevance at all, it’s more of a design choice as stated by Chronos.
And yea he did have blue eyes in JTO, this can be explained by: they thought it looked better or simply a mistake, just like his head and eyestalk color switching.
It’s not consistency when Ekimu’s eyes have been blue in all other media though.
It’s more of a coincidence that both set versions of him have him wearing a mask with trans-blue, so the designers have swapped his eyes to give better contrast on the box art.
Blue is the canon colour for Ekimu’s current form, though we will have to wait to see if his eyes canonically change colour for his Summer form.
They were blue in the animations until they changed to match the set. Also blue in:
-JTO
-The BIONICLE.com story section (“Ekimu’s Mission” I think)
-The comic on MMvSG
-Arguably the blue eyes behind the MoCr in all promotional material are Ekimu’s
Anyway, I’m not really sure why I care. I suppose it’s because Ekimu’s appearance was one of the first things established in G2, then they changed it for the set, causing it to look terrible with the MoCr on…
I wish they had more eyestalk colours. It would allow for issues like these to be fixed (trans. dark blue would work too), lets the Toa feel even more unique, and allows for more MOCing potential.
Because he had yellow eyes in the animations. Yellow eyes last year for his set, yellow eyes this year. It’s consistency.
That isn’t a fact, though. I have no idea why they all have blue eyes but that does NOT make this idea any more fact. The Toa had different eye colors last year. Do you mean to tell me that Gali 2015 was ALSO evil? That Onua was evil?
