Same. Can whoever is doing this please tell us what’s considered objectionable in this context? Or should I wait until I receive a warning from the staff for asking if I should just quit this topic, since someone here thinks comparing Ninjago and Power Rangers to be self-advertising? Because I am actually going to mute this topic unless someone is willing to tell me what I did that violates board rules. This isn’t Skial, this isn’t Steam or Reddit, I’m pretty sure offenders are entitled to being read our rights instead of getting shadow-reported over mecha and Ninjago.
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For the record, I was the one who flagged your post, although I was quite certain I had flagged it for being a double post and not as an advertisement. I still fail to see how my follow-up post, which pointed that out, needed to be deleted as it continued the original discussion and shared my two cents on the idea of LEGO’s persistence in its endless quest to mech-ify every topic on the planet.
Regardless, to ensure that this post is hopefully not deleted, I will add another opinion about LEGO which I have which may or not be unpopular, as the last one I shared seems pretty universal:
LEGO maybe probably shouldn’t bring Bionicle back.
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Thanks. The warning I received said it was reported as advertising, I got really confused there.
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no but if they do they could cast chris pratt as kopaka and jack black as tahu
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IDK, if this has already been said by someone or by me before, but in case it wasn’t:
The Toa Metru would fit better as a team in an official 3rd Gen than the Mata/Nuva.
My reasons for this are the following:
- We had two gens already with the Og six as the main characters.
- While to my knowledge, most casual fans only remember the Mata as the Toa, a G3 would cater a lot more towards newcommers than older fans.
- It is a personal one, but I always thought that the premise of the Metru are more compelling than the Mata’s.
The Metru were ordinary people, who one day found themselves in a situation they couldn’t control in roles they had never prepared for.
Unlike, the more mythical and mysterious Mata, who always felt more like these demi-gods with amnesia.
I think, that if a Gen3 were to happen in the future, a more typical story of every-day-folks become heroes would appeal more to the wider range of consumers.
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Honestly, I agree with this. The Toa Metru get better character development thanks to having an actual origin in the story, while the final reveal of the Mata having been built like a set of Iron Man armors to be weapons kind of ruins their own character.
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Precisely! And for this reason, I’m firmly convinced that the average consumer would have an easier time identifying with the Toa Metru.
Their story (Especially Vakama’s) reflected the “hero’s journey” structure, which remains a very popular and successful format in fictional stories.
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I think the high prices for the new summer 2025 star wars sets are unreasonable when considering that the vehicles are made of recycled parts. I mean compare these to any of the 2002 attack of the clones star wars sets and you can see the obvious difference in budget. But that’s a good thing since now there’s less to buy.
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