I decided to make a discussion on the the new spiders as to not spam the current discussion.
So as everyone knows, we are getting bear traps for spiders. We can be sure of the fact because of the teeth and the theme, hunting. The bear trap itself is going to be hinged. If you look on Umarak’s shoulders, he uses the a half of the spider for shoulder pads. The body is three pieces, two bear trap halves and a Barraki eye. The legs are all different, meant to fit their environment, examples being the spider with vine legs, regular legs, and propellers for legs (lol). They are only come with the creatures (no BTSs at Toas’ feet, only the creatures).
The ingenuity is that the Spiders in lore will be able to move themselves in the environment they are in, and then set themselves up as bear traps. Soon a creature comes by and SNAP! A kid in real life makes the hinge grab onto it’s leg, allowing Umarak to come get the creature for whatever diabolic reasons (might be pushing it there, hopefully Umarak can some how communicate with these spiders to know when a trap gets a catch).
What are your thoughts on this conflict in a box? Anymore speculation? Should we give them a different name? Discuss!
Makes more sense to discuss them here - better than trying to discuss it in the 2016 topic at the moment.
As for the ingenuity, you are correct, from the looks of things the new pieces introduced for the bear-trap creatures are reused for most the sets. They look interesting and the pieces they are made from seem to be good for MOC’ing also, but we’ll see about that more when we get better pictures.
Out of the Winter Wave, they and the creatures intrigue me the most at the moment
Am I the only one who feels that bear traps are a bit too violent for Lego? I mean, they are infamous for being incredibly painful and bloody, and occasionally cause severing of limbs…
I’m thinking that the bear trap spiders don’t just sit in place for a trap, I think that after they get a creature, they begin dragging the creature back to Umarak…
Because swords, guns, spears, flails (anyone seen Gladiator?), amung other things totally aren’t painful and bloody. And most of those things sever limbs more then occasionally.
I personally really like the idea. Conflict in a box while not redoing a spider/bug type thing, there’s few things they could have done, and this is very creative.
as an update it appears every region has a unique bear trap, with galis having propellers, Tahus having lava legs,onuas having drills and lewas having vines.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the ice one was a pick and the stone was bone or somthing
