I didn’t believe it at first while reading this, but when I saw the bats on reddit, I was shocked.
[spoiler]The eagle looks like a prototype Chima Legends Beast with a blocky head, the turtle looks kinda incomplete from the shell structure gaps (not as bad as Pewku), lavender dragon looks like a downgrade of the 2016 wind dragon, fire lion is decent without flame sticking out,
and the green fox looks bad from it’s color scheme.
They did repeat some vehicle design like a mobile capture thing and a blimp with different style (like Ninjago, but im glad this IP manage to go 3 years with no issue.
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The mama turtle confuses me. They prefab’d the head but not the shell? It seems to me like building a square head would be easier with bricks and the shell one new domed piece.
Not sure if missed potential is the right word, I just think the theme was under-appreciated. I didn’t follow the story past what I could gather from looking at sets, but the sets themselves on average looks great. This line did really well with dragons, terrain, and some architecture. I loved the use of bright and varied colors throughout the series. The only thing that bugged me in the sets was how the color locked mixel joint pieces stood out in all the creatures. But 41179, 41180, and 41183 are some of my favorites from the theme because they really show the line’s strengths.
Not necessarily, that, i mean with the story in general. I watched the first few videos and got excited. it could be a good fantasy theme, then I heard the phrase “BFF’s over BF’s” and I was out. they ruined it for me with that phrase.
Looking back, I had this weird hate for the themes dedicated entirely for girls. It’s not that you have to be a girl to enjoy it (although this is what I thought back then), it’s just the in your face girly elements, from a lot of pinks and purples, a lot of female characters, everything is nice and shiny and sparkly, minidolls, etc. That kind of behaviour seems a little childish, it’s like saying that you must be a boy to enjoy Bionicle, which couldn’t be more false.
Elves was (or is? Is this show still running?) in a way the gender-swapped version of Ninjago, at least of Ninjago at that time (again, I abandoned Ninjago a long time ago and I don’t have current plans of revisiting it). It was the original fantasy Lego theme for girls. Was it that good as Ninjago? It’s up to you to decide, as I never saw a single clip of this show, and the plans to visit it are even more unlikely than my plans to revisit Ninjago. What is for sure, tho, it’s that it was more stream-lined, if I use that term correctly.
Tho I will never understand one thing: why waste money trying to develop two themes (Ninjago and Elves) instead of actually using those money to try to develop all of your themes. Sure, it would be of poorer quality, quality nonetheless, and proportional quality at that. That way, you would have more than two money cows to milk, you would have… what? How many themes were back in 2014-2017? Get what I’m saying?
That’s fair.
Maybe it was underrated by the mainstream people who get sets to display and for the sets themselves, but for those that like new pieces and colors, they were great.
I still want to pick some up myself.
Even though it was a “girls” theme, I think that it had a lot of stuff that could appeal to guys, too.
I mean, I thought it was cool.
They probably should have expanded it to make it more appealing to both genders, in general.
(I’m not stereotyping here.)
It’s less that. The thing is, now, I’ve told this story before, but I’ll say it again. When I first saw elves, I thought “Ooh! Something original!” and I got excited, then I watched the videos come out, and then I watched one, (and you can tell me if it got better) That used the phrase, “BFFs over BFs!” and I was done. I could see where it was going, and it kinda lost it for me. There were a million different ways they could have phrased it so that it didn’t come across as it did, but they chose the one they did, and I can only assume it went downhill from there.
