Lego Box Art that fooled you

Discuss here which Lego set box art fooled you into buying a terrible/flawed set or generally made you feel unsatisfied or tricked after building the actual set?

Obvious starters are Bruizer who sinfully tricked us into thinking that his bulky arm was poseable by hiding away that liftarm as well as tucking back his skinnier arm

and Fire Lord who tactically covered up his skeletal upper legs

I also thought that Thok had Mata Blue limbs rather than sky/baby blue, but that could just be mild colour-blindness

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Quake beast’s box art made me think it was actually going to be a good set, the box lied

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g1 toa Mata/Nuva build

I thought they could bend their limbs

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Hmm it’s odd I don’t think this has ever happened to me

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http://lego.brickinstructions.com/08000/8572/001.jpg
Bendable legs and arms, y u lie LEGOz, y!?

Movable Torsos, again u LIE!

Movable Heads, LIES!
http://www.watchcartoonslive.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Lego-Bionicle-II-Legends-of-Metru-Nui.jpg
Vahki having relevance in the movie to be showcased on the cover art, LIES!
http://cache.lego.com/r/www/r/dimensions/-/media/franchises/dimensions/home/slider%20cta%20images/01_ld_home_hero_a.jpg?l.r2=2043855880
LEGO figures being able to bend like this in real life, LIES!

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Toa Mahri Hahli, who tricked us into buying breakable joints.

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Add in Phantoka Lewa and Tanma as well, also any Av Matoran build, it sucks way more than the CGI trailers and the promo art shows them to be.

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I never eally bought a lego set and felt I was lied to-

Wait a minute, the gold masks on the 2015 boxes!

They made it look like they were a shiny gold, but instead they were a bland color!

Why, Lego, Why?!

######I’m on a tiny bit of a sugar rush, in case if you can’t tell.

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This looked like it was going to be gold or at least some dark shade of yellow
http://i.imgur.com/9HxpDhD.png

Then I bought the set and realized the parts were so yellow it was blinding.

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Wasn’t it keetorange?

Err, yeah you’re right.

Regardless, it wasn’t quite what I expected from seeing the box art.

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Nidhiki and his “yellow eyes”

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http://i.imgur.com/2xDTz9i.png
http://i.imgur.com/lcAUoaU.png
http://i.imgur.com/oYONeun.png

Those arms

LEGO lies to us

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All of this, basically.

Hewkii Mahri, they made him look like he had a good range of head articulation.

that head doesn’t come over his shoulder


oh wait they did it again…

and again…

also the 2016 elemental blade blend

gelu’s weapon which is a whole new level of bendable

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for not only making it appear that the limbs move

but also that the legs could be pivoted

and also that the head could move

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Funny thing, I’m looking at the book with that as the cover right now.

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I always thought the toa nuva had bendable knees, and I didn’t get any or no one close to me had any so I had no reason to think otherwise. But then two years ago when I finally got some nuva sets, I was surprised to see that the knees didn’t bend.

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Krekka having both his eyes!

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