My Examples for possible 2016 Summer wave Beast and Umarak forms:
Storm Beast (Cthulhu),
Lava Beast (Diablo),
Quake Beast (Lion Turtle from Avatar).
Umarak the Destroyer…Illidan
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I agree, Jango Fett looks a thousnad more times more proportioned than most of the new Bionicle sets. And the 2016 bonkle chest isn’t really the issue with proportions, it is actually perfectly proportioned to the head, however the arms and legs are bad in many sets. But then again, this doesn’t bother me that much.
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Man seeing all these pictures of shelves stocked with the new bionicle sets are killing me. My local Barnes and Noble has zero bionicle sets. They have toooons of nexo nights stuff and a mountain of friends stuff but absolutely no bionicle sets. Aggghhhhhhh
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Thumbs up for Lion Turtle (and Cthulu to a degree).
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Too many birds, not enough tentacle gods.
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Really nice review here.
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The review is amazing I might cry a little
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Jango Fett is much better than tahu,
I wish the beasts are something we never seen before, not an oversize creature or something ugly
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Jangbricks always trying to be positive and that’s why he is one of the best reviewer. He digs deeper in the sets while trying to figure out what the designers tried to do with the set. He is not that nitpicky as some of the recent reviewers.
By the way I think Tahu and Jango Fett are equal good.
@Lexonn Exactly! See? That’s how a review should go. He shows us the most things we have the know about Kopaka he even compared him with Tahu, something we have never seen before. And then he told us why Kopaka isn’t that good as Tahu plus he showed us the problem with his inside build. Way to go.
I don’t know if this has been mentioned before but… Kopakas actually really odd gold leg armor can easily be replaced with the trans-blue/silver crystal armor of Gali.
I actually think that Ketar goes great with Umarak!
Actually, Jang is a bit TOO positive.
Also, GALI OWNERS, can you please make a GOOD photograph of her golden mask?
I beg you. All photos out there are not close enough, or at awful angle, or weird colors.
I dont know if you actually think this, or if this is a start of an argument for the sake of standing your own ground. I will say this now though, Jang reviews toys, not characters, like alot of reviewers do. He focuses on, ‘is this a good set for kids’ not ‘is this good to have in my collection’. When he reviews sets he looks at function then appearance, and he will state when he thinks a set is awful or what he doesn’t like about it, and that’s usually when a set has limited play value, which is something that is increasingly rarer.
Now this has already gotten off topic, so how does everyone compare Umarak to the skelly villains? Better or worse?
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Lego is a toy company so of course he reviews toys. Not only Bionicle. Have you seen his reviews about Nexo Knights? I find that theme terrible, still Jang’s review made me actually like them somehow. He states a lot of things objective still in a gentle style. This is the kind of precision for the sets while he doesn’t want to hurt some of the fans and letting them decide whether they like it or not. BZpower reviews was awful this time. And I’m not the only one who thinks that.
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thats cute, but what happend to his arms…
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I noticed some of BZpower’s reviews were pretty… Bashy?
I didn’t like the camera work/shooting sets either. I prefer Jang’s angles and white background!
I wouldn’t compare him to the skelly villains, but rather to the LoSS since he is the winter wave’s lone villain, and he definitely beats LoSS as a set and a character.
To answer the actual question, though, I do like him more than the 2015 summer wave sets!
He has a lot more size, texture/detail and overall spookyness to him, AND he has a deployable drone trap thing, so it’s almost kind of two in one.
While I did enjoy the skelly villains, I do think they’re sorta simple and not really a huge kick build wise (this goes for the Toa too), save for Skull Scorpio, which is pretty custom and different at least.
Umarak has all of the good things 2016 has to offer, and I really do think he makes team Skull’s A game look like a Z game…
that’s even worse if you understand the alphabet… Is it?
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Kinda the same thing, what happened to Kopaka… or he is just ready to slip
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as always, but he looks awesome
like gali
or maybe is just Velken, that his pics are awesome
good old times uh?
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Is it just me , or has LEGO stopped making as many masks as the could have in G2 compared to G1? In this new generation, we already had the Protectors with the same masks, but that can be explained by story reasons. Someone even pointed out that the lack of creative villager masks is due to the masks being created by Makuta, and not Ekimu. Makuta while having the Mask of Control would be much fitting for a larger amount of people, but the individual special masks with unique and powerful magitech would be done by somebody who has a Mask of Creation. (but I have to stress this that this is just a theory, and not the actual explanation from LEGO)
It could almost slide with the Skull villains, I say almost since we do see a lot differently shaped versions of those masks in the animations.
But what about the creatures, were they born or made. If made then the same head can be explained. But if born, why would a bird like creature have the same head as a rodent creature, or a fish, or an insect. The creatures in general are very distinct and should not have had same head pieces.
Everytime when I see new sets sharing the same masks with each other, I get disappointed since there isnt a lot to differentiate their faces.
Of course everything can be explained by careful story handling, but in set terms it looks like LEGO has went the cheaper rout with G2 Bionicle, in the sense that they dont make special new molds for individual villains, creatures or villages.