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OMG There's an Honest Trailer for Ninjago and nobody has mentioned it yet! It's pretty great by the way. Wonder how they got that guy to do it...

After looking closely at pictures from the film, I have to say that you're right: Some similarities are undeniably existent. Kind of funny.

Actually I never watched that movie. Should I have? Actually It's not LDD but a real model. The legs work perfectly fine, even though they are carrying a lot of weight. I used tires on the feet for extra stability and it all worked out to my own surprise. @Murdoch17 The shadow was added after removing the original background of the photo. I'm just learning to use the programs for that so I'm not an expert. The shadow is not perfect for sure but it looks better than without it. Thank you all for your comments!

Hey guys, Some of you may remember the time a few years ago when the first rumours about the Lego Nexo Knights theme began to surface. Some sources claimed to know, that the theme would be Castle combined with Steampunk elements. Some said, the set that we today know as 70317 The Fortrex was actually going to be a giant walking Steampunk fortress. I was really fascinated by those descriptions. Of course, as we all know today, the actually Nexo Knights theme had nothing to do with Steampunk, which really disappointed me. But the picture of a big Steampunk Castle still was floating in my head and so I decided to just build one. What you can see here is the result of that decision: A Steampunk version of the "Fortrex" indeed. It has got everything a proper Lego Castle needs: Drawbridge, Cranes, 2 towers at the front, 1 in the back... and it can walk on four feet powered by a steam engine with giant smokestack! It's pretty cool, isn't it? It took me a long time to build this model but I'm really satisfied with the overall outcome. The biggest challenge for me was designing the legs because I wanted them to be kind of posable but still had to allow them to hold the high weight of the castle above. I also had a lot of fun finding ways to use interesting looking parts and colours in strange "steampunky" ways. For more pictures and information you can visit the Lego Ideas page of this model: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/9bd75f34-22e7-4146-8e02-089cfb9314e4 And if you're already there I of course would be very thankful if you could support the project. ;-) I'm also interested in your opinion regarding Nexo Knights: Would you have had preferred a Steampunk version of the theme or were you happy with what it turned out to be? I'm looking forward to reading you're comments!