Exetrius

There allready is a thread like this: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=109465 EDIT: My gosh, I just realized how stupid this was, please forgive me

I bet it's the Hornless Hippo Rock Swine Oh, remember when Ninjago had fictional fauna... like Flying Lightning Panters! Great times...

Thanks for your elaborate comment! I actually don't know what trivia you're talking about, please forgive me! I did some research on the web (i.e. here: http://www.ehow.com/facts_7176737_difference-between-japanese-chinese-dragons.html) and it seems that there is no significant difference in curviness of Japanese and Chinese dragons. Judging from the number of toes, the shape of the head and it's behaviour (makevolent), I'd say it's a Japanese dragon. I had some fun finding this out, so thanks! Ah, the effect with the sausage, I thought it was kinda cool I too wish that the dragons in the show were summoned in a cooler way.

Uh, not sure where you have seen the Ninjago costumes, they aren't on their website as far as I can see. It would be so cool to have a detailed, well-made high quality costume... Deepstone Lloyd suit, or Samurai X (ToE).... You'd need a specialized costume crafter for that, along with a big fat wallet, probably

Beautiful Moc-reboot of that set ! It's nicely SNOTted, has realistic detailing and even has a good interior, great job!

Need. That. Lloyd. Can't wait to see Cole and all the other figs. This is for now enough to look at, just... wow!

Hi everyone, I'm glad to post my first review here on Eurobricks: Attack of the Morro Dragon from the Ninjago ghost wave. I picked this set up at LEGO World Utrecht 2015 for a good price (52 euros), along with some other cool stuff, so I thought that I might as well review it. Christmas is approaching and therefore the best time of the year to get some fine Lego offers. So, for those of you who have waited patiently, this review may be helpful. So, let's get started! Name: 70736 Attack of the Morro Dragon Theme: LEGO Ninjago Piece count: 658 Minifigs: 6 Year released: 2015 Retail price: USA $69.99 UK £59.99 GER €69.99 Front of the box Back of the box Minifigs displayed on the side The box has fairly odd and impractical dimensions. It's thin and very broad. My experiments found that it is especially impractical when trying to transport it in narrow places such as the aisles of a train, the bus or your ordinary bicycle bag. Contents of the box In the box we find 5 numbered bags, one instruction booklet plus sticker sheet and fabric wings, nicely backed with cardboard. No real surprises there. Instructions Random page Sticker sheet Nice stickers, beautiful, I love them... and I won't apply them! Content of the bags A striking amount of pieces in the colour Spring Yellowish Green. Before the release of this set (and the rest of the ghost wave), parts in this particular colour were quite rare, that changed a lot! There are also very little pieces in colours that are off the main colour scheme, which is nice. Pieces of interest Again, lots of (existing) parts in Spring Yellowish Green, exclusive wing fabric, Trans Neon Yellow chain piece, Trans Black aeroblade piece, recoloured Elemental Blade, glow in the dark 1x1 stud and cone, and one of the most peculiar ones...... is not in this picture! The black Formula 1 nose. Anyway, some pretty cool stuff. The ninja From the good guy side we get Kai and Jay. I like their so-called Deepstone armor variant, especially Jay's. Great designs that are also both useful outside the Ninjago universe. The new (upon release) hoods and black shoulder pads look slick. One complaint: still the same serious/angry expressions that have been used since 2011. C'mon.... The ghosts Even now the excitement of newness has worn of, the ghost figs remain spectacular. Upon release, these introduced a lot of new things: A dual-coloured ghost leg piece, transparent legs in Tr. Neon Yell., and two different hoods. One of which is partly transparent to back-light the transparent ghost head. Neat effect! The torso/leg prints don't interest me too much, but overall these minifigs are one of the better Ninjago baddies. A downside, however, of the bizarre colour scheme is that it is hard to use the parts in a different context. Oh, right, they have names: in the middle is Yokai, right (with the straw hat) is Cowler, left (with the leg piece) is Chain Master Wryath. Oh, and two Skreemers are also included. These were all fine, but now it's time for the real star of the show! Evil Green Ninja Yup, that is really how they call him! The set is called the Attack of the Morro Dragon, and the person who is most clearly portrayed as it's rider and master is called.... Evil Green Ninja Anyway, it is Lloyd who is possessed by Morro, so basically Morro. This is first-class nitpicking, because this was the only bad thing I had to say about him. Oh my.... he looks just darn awesome! The two head and torso gear pieces show no less then four different 'cloth' layers, on top of the detailed printing! I really love the detailed printing on his torso and legs, and these will be useful in a different context! This is a top-notch fig! I don't have any pictures of the building process, unfortunately. Bag 1 builds the shrine and a hover board, bag 2 is partly for other hover board and all the rest is for the Morro Dragon, which was a great build. Let's check that out! Morro Dragon in flight Just look at how majestic this beast of a dragon is! I didn't expect it to come out as good as the Master Wu Dragon, but I was wrong... it came out even better! The box art really doesn't show this monster from it's best angles, I hope I did better. How does it compare to it's counterpart in this wave, the Master Wu Dragon? Size comparison As you can see, it's HUGE, has a superb colour scheme, a very menacing look. And it swooshes around nicely, thanks to a cleverly integrated hole for your finger. The simulated kind of waving motion that runs from head to tail is one of my favorite design elements of this build. It feels like a very authentic Japanese ghost dragon, but with wings added, which is fine. I think this a fantastic display piece, but what about articulation? Flight attack pose Passes the test. That was just the warm-up, though... Will it succeed... in doing... an upright standing pose??? Look Morro! No hands! It frickn' does it! Honestly, I didn't expect it to do so. It is in fact a little tough to pull off, given that the center of gravity lies nowhere near it's hips and the tail is not much of a counterweight. I really like this pose. Conclusion: it poses well. There are a few articulation flaws, however. The wings for example can't reach a 100% horizontal pose (let alone angling them further down) due to the front legs under them getting in the way. Furthermore, the head can't be moved sideways and up-movement is very limited. Overall, I think the motion is decent. The whole set My apologies for not having separate pictures for the sidekick builds. The two hover boards have a cool design and are fun to play around with. I do have some complaints about the shrine. Though structures in Ninjago sets generally don't make sense compared to their appearance in the show, but this one is really odd. It's colour scheme is in accordance with neither the show, nor the other structures in the Ninjago ghost wave, at all. I don't like the bright red plus black against the white. However, I admit that it came out better than expected, as I thought it would look ugly from all angles. But, with the two walls set up in front of the shrine, like a gate, it makes sense to me and looks.. eh... decent. A good thing: the shrine has some good parts, like the many masonry bricks. Spare parts Always nice to get spare blades! Verdict I think the Morro Dragon is fantastic, maybe even the biggest and best brick-built dragon to-date. Menacing, huge and great poses. Nice figs too, especially Morro Evil Green Ninja, who is superb and was a major draw to buy this set. Little hover boards are fun and the shrine turned out OK. I don't think that I would have bought it, even with my new view on the set, if I had to pay the original price, it's on the high end for me (I try to avoid buying expensive sets for display only). Taken everything into account, I'd rate this set 8/10 I hope it has been helpful. I already know that the quality of my photo's leaves a lot to improve. (I should have either a better camera or better lighting for this, preferably both ) Other than that: please share some tips or tops about this review, again, it's only my first! Thanks for reading and have a good day!

Thanks! Nice to see the Wu Crew symbol being teased again, I wonder where it will show up in the sets. Maybe it's their flag, or it will be as a mark on their vehicles. The Kai fig does not bring any new details about those suits, sadly.

Oh, what's this all about? Could anyone link to a picture or something, please?

The only scenario in which I would accept the ninja to go into space is if they were to give up their humanity: they turn into entities of their respective elements and become mega super powerful. I just don't want Ninjago to go on the high-tech tour again. But, in the final stage of the show, I could see this happening. (Oh my! ... Just thought of an ancient space temple set...)

yeah, there could be an underwater Deepstone mine and forge for example.

At this point, I wouldn't rule out any possibilty, especially with the realm thing. You never know what kind of secrets are waiting on the ocean floor of Ninjago. Remnants of the sunken Preeminent, an ancient city inhabited by water ninja, all kinds of stuff that they could do.

Tomorrow I'm attending a big lego event, so I checked which sets I wanted to buy and then I came across the UA wave 3. As you may have figured out, I didn't find them on sale (online) in the Netherlands. Can anyone tell me (or link to the page) why this wave wasn't released in my country and elsewhere?

I hope Axl's arms are connect to the body via Technic pins. Custom arms (i.e. with ball joints) would be a piece of cake that way.

Nice found Ian! This will surely lead to hundreds of new possibilities in mocs.

Yay for villains with cool masks! I'd love to see "mask visors" which attach to helmets (modern and samurai style). Just picture Bionicle's Mask of Creation, scaled down, in gunmetal, on a minifig helmet!

yeah, I wonder why they did this. I would have liked it to have their original signature symbols in gold on that spot, or the newer Japanese-ish characters. Especially the latter would make them so much more useful outside the Ninjago universe. Anyway, I don't think these look bad, I actually quite like them so far. I am cool with the fact that the new variant re-uses the Deepstone legs, they look good on these. The shoulder pad thing is nice, look forward to use it. Cole is nice and consistently a ghost. Hope we get to see some more stuff soon

Haha, why not? Garmadon is in fact a very awesome name indeed

Thanks for the info, can hardly wait till next tuesday!

"brought to Ninjago"... Interesting..... Maybe I'm just overthinking things

Splendid idea! If I were to find time for it, I would give it a try perhaps.

I finally started my first build for the (actual) Exetrius Saga! Don't expect a big one, though. I hope I can finish it soon and show it to you For the saga, I have a pretty exciting story line in my head, along with possible builds. Maybe I can somehow blend it in with the upcoming challenge, but it will probably take at least a year to complete. Unlike the Onicius Prologue, the saga will be more episodic in nature. So yeah, I just wanted to let my fellow guild members know. This thread (and GoH in general) has been awfully quiet lately, I hope that it re-awakens in the coming autumn holidays

I suspect that the model of Fotrex shown at NYCC was still not 100% finished. I remember the blue shields on the towers and the gunmetal sheild in the middle being blank, while they have decorations now. Or someone just forgot to put the stickers on...

Exactly! Well, the characters included in the past (chronological order) are Kimono Lloyd, Rebooted Zane and the recent Wu in yet-to-be-named robes. Lloyd and Zane were both released during a season in which they were the highlighted character, whereas Wu is an obscure character to some extent with not that much focus in last season. Is there a tendency towards inclusion of more obscure characters? - With three versions this year, Wu is pretty much ruled out. - Zane has had a lot of focus allready. - Same thing for Lloyd, although it has been about two years since he was the real star of the show. - Nya's popularity has undoubtedly increased last season among the target audience, but not enough, probably. So, what characters could be in the run? Kai is very popular, Cole has turned into a ghost last season and Jay could turn into a pirate in the future. But maybe we will get a badass villain for a change, or a Elemental master (Ash please!).

Oh this is amazing! I used to always watch the show about Jacques Yves Cousteau and I always enjoyed it. His ship was called Calypso, not sure if this ship came before that one. Anyway, your model has many awesome details, I really like the research vehicles and radio room I think the best place to show the pictures is the special themes forum, though.