CabooseBM

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  6. Posted · Edited by CabooseBM

    I dunno if I like the big jet much, but everything else is at the lofty heights I expect from Nexo Knights sets. The villain sets are as ridiculous and inventive as I'd hoped, and I like the other two Knights vehicles. The bricks with arms are hilarious mooks, too.

    The action sets are neat in concept, but feel awfully same-y in overall design. On the other hand, this is basically what I was hoping the Ultimate sets would be, and hopefully the torso parts are versatile enough to allow customization.

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    I'd love to see 20$ versions of starfighters like the X-Wing and TIE Fighter, while perhaps not scale accurate, I think you'd be able to effectively get the look down. They would also be affordably massable, which is something you just can't do with current TIE sets. Which, I might add, I'm pretty sure is a crime.

    I could see the X-Wing, the TIE Fighter, the Naboo Starfighter, and the TIE Advanced given this treatment, as well as ships that have already seen the $20 pricepoint recently, like the A-Wing or Vulture Droid.

    (Speaking of Vulture Droids, a highly articulated transformable version would be the bees knees. Easily my favorite starfighter design in the franchise.)

  12. Posted · Edited by CabooseBM

    -More Knights in different colours

    -More structures

    -Weapons/armour packs

    -Something resembling this:

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    :wink:

    Oh wow, something like that might actually get me to buy one of those stupid lumpasaurs, but hopefully we could get something brick built instead.

    On that note, I'd love Chima-Beast style sets, or even little mech suits. Anything small and loaded with Mixel joints, really.

    Oh, and lady foot soldiers in a small set would be nice too.

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    So you're saying that W16 is the worst just because it wasn't as good as W15? Well, that's... interesting. I thought that being the worst dependend on how bad the wave was, not because on any comparison.

    Oh no, it's still bad on its own, but before I softened on the Summer 16 sets they seemed more or less equally bad, so the Winter ones lose out by the additional factor of being crappy updates.

    Save for Umarak the Hunter, who actually lives up to his hype, surprisingly.

  25. Posted · Edited by CabooseBM

    It's true, Bionicle characters are not humans and their proportions do not have to be humanoid. However, that doesn't mean proportional changes are utterly meaningless. Making the shoulders or hips wider or narrower, making the arms or legs longer or shorter... these things change how people see the characters. A character with unrealistically wide shoulders will typically look powerful and burly, while a character with unrealistically narrow shoulders will typically look slight and delicate. A character with unrealistically long arms will often look somewhat cartoonish and ungainly, like an orangutan. Sometimes you might want those things, other times you might not. So the fact that Bionicle proportions don't need to look realistic doesn't mean that the WAYS they're unrealistic shouldn't matter to people. Some people are just more bothered by unrealistically long arms than by unrealistically large hands or feet, and that doesn't somehow make them hypocrites.

    I think this paragraph does a fantastic job of summing up why people complained about G1 Toa sets since about 2006. Sure, they don't have to be humanoid but none of them looked like they were intended to be that way. Very few G1 sets looked like they had a character design in mind and often didn't tell you much about the characters. 2015 Toa were so fantastic because they were designed from the ground up as characters. Onua is BIG and STRONG. Kopaka is ARMORED and STOIC. Lewa is LANKY and AGILE. Tahu is HEROIC and POWERFUL. Gali is SMOOTH and a GIRL.

    Well, okay, that last one isn't as great an example, but that comes with the territory of having only one girl character. This is also why Pohatu seems so bland at first glance. His design doesn't immediately say something about him, so despite being a cool figure he isn't held in high regard. Emphasizing his asymmetry would have done wonders for his design, and he'd really come off as ROUGH and WORN like his character.

    In addition, it is this utter lack of thoughtful character design that ultimately brings down the 2016 Toa.