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A History Hello Eurobricks users! I am here to explain, educate, inform and entertain with an article on this very subforum you are reading. Whether you are a regular to this section or are here because you accidentaly clicked something on that pesky touchscreen (you could have sworn you tapped that other one, right?) I hope you bear with me and take a look at Action and Adventure Themes. Action and Adventure Themes Here is an elegent and finely crafted timeline-ish of Action and Adventure themes. Spanning 1995 right up to the here and now of 2015 (twenty years..Peppy feels old). Subthemes missed for space, else this baby would be massive-er, Click to embiggen.. Just what is an Action and Adventure Theme? Action and Adventure Themes isn't an official LEGO name, while Pirates, Town and Technic are taken from current or past LEGO branding, Licensed is pretty much self explained and Star Wars is a no-brainer. Action and Adventure came about as a place for some of the outliers that needed a home. Story driven themes that had named characters front and centre with a mission or quest to undertake. Of course, plenty of SciFi themes have a storyline and named characters but Action isn't quite SciFi. Those themes just aren't Skiffy enough to be SciFi or normal enough to live in Town. ATV, Goodguy, Badguy. ATV, Goodguy, Badguy... Giant Space Mantis ATV, Goodguy, Badguy... A Badguy made of Toxic Slime. Sure, there are helicopters and motorboats, even ATVs that would happily fit into a City, but that chap there has a super lazer and he is chasing a man made out of radioactive slime. Not enough spaceships or aliens, but too much toxic ooze and lazers. There are a few more features of an Action and Adventure theme. Take a look at some Classic advertising I have re-discovered.* *X Soft, a big ol' nostalgia bomb! You might have noticed a little something. There was some sort of linking line through all of them that can be found even in the latest (including the one marketed at girls) Action and Adventure themes. Collecting things! Collections and Crystals It is a surefire perfect way to get people buying and buying, or more accurately getting children to ask for/demand all the things. A Collection gimmick. Gotta Catch 'em all! To do that you have to buy all the sets, from that nicely priced set a little pocket money will get, right up to the huge cornerstone big-box build that has a princely sum attached. There are Baddies to be captured, keys in all forms, weapons that grant powers, weapons that will grant a bad-guy a power the good-guys have to stop. They come in pretty colours with printed designs and all fit neatly into something on the biggest set. All of them are unique and only one in each of the sets. Unlock the gates, collect the weapons, stop Pharaoh getting his mummy mitts on the kit! If it isn't unique things to collect it is something a little more basic. Crystals! Lots and lots of crystals. Amass more than the enemy or enemy factions, collect them with a cool play feature or fight it out with a game mechanic. They came in all sorts of colours and finishes, shapes and sizes and reasons to collect. Power source or valuable commodity, you have to get more crystals than the other guys. A gemstone. A Chi Crystal While some in-story were more generic and had less of a reason to collect them (or it was outright unexplained) those Action and Adventure theme factions sure loved their crystals. Like I mentioned earlier, these were not just lying around to be picked up. Sometimes you have to play a little game. Game on! Another thing that sets Action and Adventure themes apart from the more mundane of real-life roleplay are games to build and play. A section of the game, complete with a nifty plane! While Time Cruisers was the first Action and Adventure theme to have a board game, the game itself was separate from the sets and came with some LEGO as playing pieces. The Adventurer's Orient Expedition Theme had a trio of linkable game-boards and playing cards included in the three larger sets. Through a combination of item collection and challenges you earned points to win the game. Game Cards featuring heroic characters After quiet a hiatus filled with Video Games and an increasing internet mini-game presence a new Action Theme arrived with a new and exciting game. Ninjago! Spinjitzu Warrior Combining the age-old game of battling tops (gasing pangkah - look it up!) and playing cards, with the popular characters of colourful Ninjas, Ninjago has been going strong for four years. While there has been a spinner-less gap of late, it is set to make a return to a battle game later this year. There isn't much more to be said about this subject, something I am sure other members could tell me more about! Card Games On Motorcycles! With the success of the Ninjago theme there was another attempt to combine a toy and card battle game with Legend of Chima. Flywheel powered Speedorz, launched along by the rip-cord, can navigate obstacles to win Chi crystals. After a slightly unfortunate redesign of the 'fairing' no further speedorz are coming along and Chima is ending, but not every theme can last as long as some. Videogames As well as the good old chunks of plastic pitted against each other in competition, Action and Adventure Themes have a number of computer games to go alongside the storys told in comics and internet material. There have been many LEGO Multimedia games and characters from Action and Adventure themes have featured in them in varying roles. However Rock Raiders was the first Action and Adventure Theme to have a game to itself. *I miss the old LEGO Media bit, that soundbite! On Playstation and PC, you collected the energy crystals to help the heroes escape the mystery planet and return home. Alpha Team was next to get the game treatment, with a PC and Gamboy Colour release. (Aaand now I have to go and sit in a corner and feel old, have a video.) *I miss the old LEGO Media bit, that soundbite! **and that is why Cam and Dash are my LEGO OTP More recently Ninjago has been bringing the goods with the Battles strategy game, Nindroids and upcoming sequel Shadow of Ronin. The RPGs supplied to us by Travellers Tales, purveyors of fine LEGO gaming experiences since 2005. So Now you Know and Knowing is Half the Battle. I hope this article has informed and entertained. Action and Adventure themes have always been my favourite. Fun, strange, sometimes packed with radical new ideas. Certainly loaded with colourful characters and colourful parts. Action and Adventure themes cane burst into life and fizzle out quickly or have a staying power no one expected but always pack in plenty for us to remember. Who knows what will be coming up? Will we dive down to the seabed again or dig out some crystals? Is there a daring Explorer ready to venture out into the unknown? Or some new and unexpected direction to give us even better prints, parts and colours to enjoy? Whatever it is, I hope we all get to come along for the ride!

You know, LEGO are releasing CMFs to catch the attention of children as an impulse buy/pester purchase. They are catching the eye of the casual LEGO appreciator; a lot of adults think LEGO is "pretty neat" and a figure that fits their personality would look just the right amount of "quirky" for the desk at work. It is a great way to have a diverse population in your build, or to get a figure that would never fit a theme. Army builders are indeed a niche in a niche and TLG are not targeting them to make their money.

Great build technique there! It captures the look of Kirby while still being true to LEGO structures and it harks to the 8-bit roots of this little guy. Any plans for some of his Smash Bros variations? It is always so cute to see a little Link-hat wearing Kirby waddling about weilding a tiny sword and shield...

While I can't help with the issue (Do you have photographs of the problem?) I think if I move this into Technic you should get more help. One thing I can suggest, is the axle the right length? If the set is second hand sometimes wrong parts can be boxed in by a seller. You can look up a parts list on the instuctions or Bricklink for a more detailed/magnified list.

There is a lovely tutorial to use.

"A done deal my friend." Tesni said with a wink and a hand proffered to seal the sale.

"No idea! How would you value them?" Tesni shrugged, music had been a limited part of her life on the lonely mountain. (OOC: Really now, i don't know and don't mind, so long as you feel it is fair and no one else thinks it is unfair!)

Tesni grinned, there was something she'd been hauling around a while. She pulled them out of her bag. "I picked these up on my wanderings and quests. Any good to you?" The party maracas rattled ineffectually in the hands unskilled in music.

"Went to the mountains. Put word about for the Hightribe. I needed a rest after the Northern Kingdoms. How have you been faring? Taken up the pipe I see."

I would love to host, but while I have all the ideas I have none of the ability! Oh, I can build, I can create NPCs and enemy monsters, but start applying numbers and modifiers to those numbers and then put it into combat with dice rolls and coin tosses and buffs/debuffs... I would co-host if someone else could do all the maths! As for second characters, I want one, I want to "retire" Tesni once she reaches Barbarian Chieftan or at least send her on a sabbatical. I stopped playing after getting a bit burned out (Real Life sucked last year) and running out of ideas on what to do with her. A new level 1 to play with is going to be an opportunity to have a fresh start without losing the progress Tesni has. So no, in my case things would be one in, one out. Edit:Oh hey, 8000 posts!

Tesni heard familiar voices. She let herself from the rafters to find a few old comrades. Tesni put her name under Fields of Glory "Well Met Friends! Is this talk of a trip to the fields? Would anyone want a highly armed barbarian to throw at things?"

I purchased this one recently, it has such a great play-feature! After flick-fire missiles and simple see-saw flippers in the last few smaller Ninjago sets, I love this. Using the catapillar tracks as a falling bridge is just fantastic isn't it?

You can also use Compatibility Mode in Internet Explorer to overcome some issues.

that printed dish. My oh my is it so pretty...

Images are the size they were uploaded as, though there is some autoscaling by browsers to fit screens if you post something enormous. The guidlines have advice on acceptable image sizes to post, you can always link to the larger size if the permitted isn't big enough.

Eurobricks was called Eurobricks because it was founded with the intention of catering to European LEGO fans and the Fair Play rules dictates that LEGO can't be used in fan-sites... Hence Eurobricks. Of course, being set free on the internet meant many people from outside of Europe could find and use EB without being in Europe but the name is the name and we keep it.

Eurobricks member songwm and his friend Cao have built this fantastic Ninjago diorama to showcase the 2015 sets. Take a look and leave a comment in Action and Adventure Themes!

Floop-de-loop that is awesome. The kids in your area are lucky to have that as the LEGO Store build (It is like a tiny Ninjago miniland!) The techniques are wonderful, the terrain is fantastic and there is just the right amount of foliage.

Um, we know this. It has been known for a few months. This thread really didn't need bumping up. Please try to avoid it in future.

The Reviewer's Academy can help you with tutorials and with feedback too!

I am not sure what the problem is? Are you trying to insert a URL like this: http://www.eurobrick...p?showforum=119 Or like this Go to Action! Are you using the "Insert Hyperlink" button, or the basic editor? Finally: Are you using Internet Explorer? IE does not work very well with Invision (the software Eurobricks uses), compatibility mode can help.

I too was getting really excited by the new sets. Rebooted didn't really grab me, but this and a lot of the other sets are really good. Thanks for the review.

Oh, the 96/97 period was a good year for me and LEGO, there are three little sets I had in that catalogue. Plus a few not in there. I remember the single sheet types that came in the boxes I had. Also the few places that sold LEGO year 'round would have catalogues I took home to look at. Some aspects of life were so lovely before the wide spread internet use. (But I do love the internet!)