Brickonicle "Sets" Discussion

[Payinku]

I’ve had the same opinion from day one, an action line is dead on arrival without action sets,
That’s simply the reality of the situation.

From the kaita poll topic:

@Payinku

I did suggest vehicles myself in this very topic,
it works significantly better both for story and set design than combining the toa themselves,
a system action theme needs action sets after all, can’t be just brick built rahi and scenery.

I believe someone tried to argue that because Lego Minecraft(a licensed theme of one of the most popular games on the market which is based on structure building) does well with a structure based set lineup, that g3(an action theme which is on its second resurrection and is an original IP) would be successful with a structure focus as well, despite Lego clearly shifting away from structure sets in action themes over the years for presumably financial reasons, ergo they don’t sell as well, for example: city is mostly vehicles, you get the occasional scenery piece and usually one structure a year.
All this is to make the point that g3 would be dead in the water with a structure focused set lineup, which is why I suggested repurposing the kaita title for vehicles.

I realise this post was a touch wordy, but I wanted to reiterate that point: that people need to look at g3 as a realistically successful action theme, and not a line of set pieces, regardless of how many gimmicks you say you would cram into the b.u.r.p.'s.

@Payinku

I would suggest perhaps being able to separate the (vehicles) into chunks and mixing and combining the parts, ultimately forming either two kaita or a larger singular kaita nui.
I suggested they be powered by elemental energy, both as a way to balance the power boost, but also it could explain why they were lost to the tribes, as they were unnecessary and unwieldy given the matoran’s limited elemental ability.

These ‘ancient machines’ would obviously not appear in the story in the first year, or arguably even the second, matoran machines such as onu/po matoran boxxor and le matoran airships and such could easily be a way to simultaneously give the ‘good guys’ vehicles while still having them be the underdogs.

@Payinku

The boxxer would make for a great $12 hero battle pack, a boxxer and 2 matoran and some enemy minifig, similar to the nexo knights equivalent,
It could even be based on the recent small mech torso Lego made, using mixel joints.

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@RAKRONDEWL

Here are some designs I am working on based off artwork and some of my own ideas.

Those are some very ornate very expensive plastic statues,
while they are pretty, they don’t seem to actually do anything.
As well, getting more than one large structure a year is highly unlikely.