The Gundam armor here looks neat. I know that the “Tron” armor appears in the app game as the level 4 version of each character.
I didn’t realize that there was a Master Chief/Doom guy armor for the green knight, though. That’s interesting…
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Man… Nexo Knights had so much potential that LEGO just threw away because of Ninjago competition
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I recently read a book about the Lego company’s history. While it’s not very clear, one image has a red and yellow Jens prototype in the background:
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Oh? So is Nexo Knights the future of Castle (2007)? Judging by those trolls in the image.
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that would of been a interesting idea! I presume they were taking heavy inspiration form Warhammer 40k (with the other fractions looking like Chaos and Necron)
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I think so, seeing as all the main characters’ logos are from prior castle themes.
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That would make sense; Lego has a habit of putting their original themes in shared universes.
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The yellow looks like it could be grey, badly lit.
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Apparently, the Junior figs were originally supposed to have ball-jointed heads, similar to Technic and Fabuland figures. They’re featured in this Creator movie from 2001.
The movable hands were added in 2004 with the 4+ pirates and Spiderman sets, but those heads were never made. Either they were prototypes, or they were specifically made for this film!
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Just noticed something about the Toa Mahri. The back of their instructions features this well-known promo image:
Let’s take a closer look at Matoro:
Higher quality (from the internet):
That’s right - transparent blue bones! It’s clearly noticeable on the left thigh. The released set has opaque light blue bones, but apparently he was originally supposed to carry over this feature from his Inika form!
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I’ve known about that for more than a decade. It always bummed me out to see the transparent blue bones there, knowing the look would’ve gone much harder on him than the opaque ones he has in the final set.
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Sorry to have to nuke the last 3 weeks or so of this topic, but given DuckBrick’s recent announcement, I thought it was better to play it safe with this topic. If anything discussed here was not from DuckBrick’s drop(s), feel free to let me or one of the other moderators know and we’ll reinstate the posts
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More’s the pity. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
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This sucks, dang
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