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The fact that the Star Wars constraction sets were publicly known before these rumors surfaced means they are useless for validating the rumors, since if somebody wanted to "fake" something like that all they'd have to do is give vague descriptions of the new parts from the Star Wars sets mixed with their own speculation. Now, with that said, I'm not exclaiming "IT'S FAKE, GUYS" or anything like that. It's just that as of yet, we don't have any strong evidence pointing to them being real... and it will probably be some time before we have any strong evidence one way or the other. As such, I feel like speculating based on these rumors is rather pointless (especially since, even if they are real, the user openly admitted that they appeared to be from an early stage of development and as such could be subject to considerable changes).

Well, I wouldn't be surprised if there were SOME ability to save data to the figures. With other NFC figures like Skylanders, Disney Infinity, and Amiibo, you are often able to "level up" or "upgrade" a character and then save that data to the figure almost like a memory card. That way you can take the character you've "trained" over to a friend's house to assist or compete against their characters, or even trade a character you've "trained" with a friend sort of like Pokémon. The latest version of Skylanders, called Trap Team, also includes special "trap" pieces. They do not come preloaded with character data, but you can use them to capture enemies you defeat in the game in order to play as them later on. My brother has speculated that the vehicle chips in LEGO Dimensions might be a bit similar to this, letting you build vehicles in the game and then save them to the chip (hence why the vehicle chips are not uniquely decorated like the character chips — their data would be more mutable).

Color contrast is practical for things like this because it shows where the sections separate when switching from one mode to another. Also, Silver has been discontinued since 2010 or 2011 when Silver Metallic was introduced. There's also the fact that even White ones of that piece aren't even currently in production. Putting them in the set in that color would be as expensive as introducing any other new recolor. And in my eyes, that would be sort of a waste of a recolor since it's a tiny part of each set and it's already an unobtrusive neutral color. How is it really any different than the handles of Gali's trident and Kopaka's spear being black? Or for that matter, the pins on both Tahu's sword and Kopaka's shield being black? Yes, the contrast is obvious, but does it really do any harm?

Obi-Wan looks fantastic, even though he's a wee bit generic by virtue of being a human character. Great head sculpt, great armor, great color scheme. The new shoulder add-on looks amazingly useful, and I hope it continues to appear in other colors and themes. Grievous honestly doesn't bother me as much as he seems to bother other people. I do wish his chest area were a little bit more heavily armored, since that was the most heavily armored part of the actual character, but I love the creativity of his build. In general, lots of fantastic White and Brick Yellow (Tan) elements between the two of them! I look forward to seeing the other sets!

Currently, I'd say the most likely characters to see would be Naida and Aira, simply because pretty much every expansion pack so far has had a character and a matching mini-vehicle, and Naida and Aira are the only two characters with vehicles so far (the Adventure Ship and Pegasus Sleigh, respectively). Of course, some characters like the Wicked Witch of the West and Cyborg have a brick-built "companion" instead of a vehicle, but even so there aren't a lot of things that could meet the requirements for one of those other than perhaps the pegasi from the summer sets. That's not to say LEGO could not "invent" vehicles or companions for the characters, as they did with Cyborg's Cyber-Guard, Emmet's Excavator, Legolas's Arrow Launcher, Unikitty's Cloud Cuckoo Car, or Gimli's Axe Chariot. Also, since we might not be seeing LEGO Elves characters in LEGO Dimensions until at least next year, it's possible other characters will have vehicles by then. Even so, Aira and Naida already having distinctive vehicles of their own still makes them prime candidates for the LEGO Dimensions treatment in my eyes.

Yep! Though it might very easily just be an adaptation of the first TV episode. There's also an activity book coming out in October which includes a buildable LEGO bracelet. These are both published in the US by Scholastic. I believe the activity book will probably also be published by Egmont Books in the UK, but I'm not sure about the chapter book, or whether Europe and the UK might end up getting books that the US isn't even getting (as they have for some other themes like Ninjago in the past).

Hopefully we might see Elves figures in LEGO Dimensions once the theme has had a chance to prove itself. So far in the wave we've seen, LEGO Dimensions has pretty much entirely avoided "untested" themes. Most of the themes represented (all but The Wizard of Oz and BTTF) are ones that have already had a chance to prove their sales potential both as LEGO sets and as LEGO video games. Frankly, the lack of LEGO Friends and LEGO City expansion sets surprises me more than the lack of LEGO Elves expansion sets. If LEGO Dimensions is successful, there will be plenty of opportunities for it to expand its reach to include other non-licensed themes, including LEGO Elves.

Well, speaking as somebody who DID skip Lasha's Bite Cycle, sometimes you take any opportunity to cut down on your personal spending, and sets that offer duplicate minifigures can be easy ones to skip. But it's a mistake to assume (as some people have been doing with respect to LEGO Dimensions) that sets with duplicate minifigures are a "scam" to get you to pay for figures you already have. Often, sets include those figures for the benefit of people who DON'T already have them, or because the designers think the figs are particularly well-suited to the set in question in spite of already being available in other sets, or because there simply isn't the budget to include entirely new figures.

Yes they should. In fact, that is EXACTLY what they should do. The target audience vastly outnumbers the number of old fans who still care about BIONICLE at this point anyway. After all, it is a kids' toy — most fans from the olden days have already "grown out of it". That's not to say the LEGO Group should completely ignore older fans or go out of their way to alienate them. And they haven't — there have been many extremely sincere appeals to nostalgia in the new line, from moments in the webisodes that echo moments of the original story, to masks that echo the most beloved of the original Kanohi, to changes that many of the older fans actually approve of. But when push comes to shove, if the newer fans want one thing and the older fans want another thing, it's better to let the newer fans have their way. BIONICLE is a kids' toy, and always has been. Anyway, I think you've seen from this thread alone that there are lots and lots of older fans who really like the direction the new sets have taken things. This isn't a black and white "old fans versus new fans" thing — there are plenty of old-school fans who are either ambivalent about these changes or even see them as positive changes to the classic sets. Personally, I love that the new BIONICLE sets have a cleaner and more streamlined aesthetic, which isn't as bony or gappy as many of the older sets. I love that the parts are no longer covered in an assortment of specialized textures that clash if you're not very particular about how you combine them. I love that instead of being set apart by functionally-identical parts with varying motifs and textures like the feet, forearms, and torsos of the Toa Inika, the new Toa and Protectors are set apart by actual differences in their builds. I love that the Protectors' launchers are simple and compact and use non-specialized ammo instead of being huge, specialized contraptions with extremely limited uses, and that the Toa feature both posability AND functionality instead of just one or the other. The new sets are definitely a lot different than what BIONICLE used to be. But they seem to me very much like what BIONICLE should have been.

The official name of Peeron's OldGray is Grey (with an "e"). The Bricklink name is Light Gray (with an "a"). And now I learn that BrickOwl calls this Light Gray, which is stupidly confusing if they're also going to use near-official names like "Dark Stone Gray" The official color "Light Grey" (with an "e") is equivalent to Bricklink's Very Light Gray or Peeron's ScalaGray, NOT to Bricklink's Light Gray or Peeron's OldGray. Jeez, BrickOwl, way to make things even more complicated for me!

Yes, the Johnny Thunder one was fan-made. It wasn't malicious, though, just an unofficial Twitter role-play account joining in on the fun. They might not have even known what "#BreakTheRules" was teasing.

Yeah, TLG introducing new recolors and molds with reckless abandon isn't something they could get away with when they were near-bankruptcy. Rather, it's one of the REASONS they were near-bankruptcy in the first place. The number of new elements they had in production at any one time was expanding out of control, and there wasn't a system to ensure that each theme stayed within a manageable budget. Unless you want LEGO to return to the brink of bankruptcy, you must understand that many of their business practices back then were not healthy and should not be imitated in this day and age, whether or not they as a company seem to be able to afford it. Also, while LEGO might release lots of new recolors in some of their other themes, part of the reason they are able to do that is because they can spread those recolors across several sets and get the most out of that investment. Take the various Flame Yellowish Orange parts in the Legends of Chima theme. The reason that LEGO can introduce so many recolors there is that pretty much every lion vehicle (and even some sets from other themes like Friends and Elves) can use those recolors. That's a lot different from BIONICLE, in which pretty much every set in a particular series will have a different color scheme, and any given year might have three sets at most with the same primary color. There simply aren't opportunities to use new BIONICLE recolors so extensively right out of the gate — unless those parts are in neutral or metallic colors that can be used across several sets with considerably different color schemes.

Well, the thing to keep in mind is that it's not just about "opportunities". There are lots of "opportunities" when including a familiar character or variant is still more desirable than including a more obscure character or variant. That's a big part of why Ninjago books are unlikely to include exclusive non-ninja characters — after all, a lot of kids like Ninjago specifically because they like ninjas, not because they're avid followers of the story. This is not limited to Ninjago, either. Most LEGO Star Wars exclusive figs tend to be major characters like Luke, Han, Leia, Darth Vader, and Boba Fett — even when many characters from Star Wars go unrepresented. Familiarity sells. One thing I look at with Ninjago figures to determine whether they're ever likely to show up as physical figs is how many of their decorations are custom-designed for them and how many are just ripped from already existing figures. As an example, Edna's torso is just a recolor of the CMF Pilot's torso, Shade's torso is a recolor of the CMF Roman Centurion's torso, and Nya's party dress is just a recolor of a dress from the Indiana Jones theme. I doubt we'll ever see any of those costumes on physical Ninjago figs.

Nobody's talking about it here, but just in case anybody wasn't following the LEGO Dimensions news, several of that theme's expansion sets are Ninjago-themed: 71207 ($25) includes Kai, Cole, a "Boulder Bomber" (mini Boulder Blaster), and "Blade Bike" (mini Blade Cycle). 71215 ($15) includes Jay and a mini Storm Fighter. 71216 ($15) includes Nya and a mini Samurai Mech. 71217 ($15) includes Zane and a mini NinjaCopter. None of the figures are exclusive but it's cool that Ninjago is getting so much representation in this game. The Ninja all come in their current (1HY 2015) costumes, but are armed with their Golden Weapons of Spinjitzu, a nice nod to posterity. The minifigure bases are all decorated with the figure's emblem while the vehicle bases are standardized.

Think you just got ninja'd. When you get to the end of the episode there is a box saying "Episode 2 coming soon"!

My review of 41073 Naida's Epic Adventure Ship has been posted to The New Elementary! Check it out here!

Both of those albums are amazing! Love Mike Oldfield's music so much! For a while it made up the majority of my iTunes library.

Like the phoenix burning bright in the sky I'll show there's another side to me you can't deny I may not know what the future holds, but hear me when I say That my past does not define me, 'cause my past is not today!

He's my second favorite of the new Toa, after Gali. Go for it!

SPIRIT confirmed over on BZPower that this (and the Okoto alphabet) are fan-made. That BIONICLE page on VK is an unofficial community currently doing some sort of Okoto expedition role-playing game and these are materials they created to supplement it.

I've been thinking. The Elves characters would be cool as full-size dolls, and the story is character-driven enough that it could probably sustain a line like that. But does anybody think it would be possible while still maintaining the LEGO brand's emphasis on building? LEGO has done full-size action figures of characters from more boy-oriented lines like Knights' Kingdom, Super Heroes, Legends of Chima, and now Star Wars in the past. But I'm not sure if/how it could work for a girl-oriented theme. Fashion dolls are in many ways a creative toy, but the type of creativity they generally involve is very different than LEGO building. And LEGO's anthropological research indicated that girls often prefer to play with toy figures in the first person rather than the third person like boys do, so the figures would probably have to be more lifelike than many "constraction" sets. All in all, as a long-time constraction fan, I'd love LEGO to introduce buildable figures in girl-oriented themes like Elves. But there are definitely some serious obstacles in the way. As similar in concept as dolls and action figures are, incorporating open-ended building into a line of fashion dolls seems considerably more complicated than doing the same with action figures.

I believe you, but frankly the rumors you mentioned sound more to me like wishful thinking than actual leaks. Particularly the bit about the unreleased Legend Beasts. Frankly, if Chima were coming back in mid-2016, we wouldn't likely be hearing about it now unless it were from a conspicuous official source that was deliberately trying to dispel rumors and maintain hype (like the Ninjago 2014 teaser we got in December 2012). Leaks don't tend to happen this far in advance.

I believe that's just their material value. The reason masks like that sell for such high costs has more to do with their exclusivity than their production and material costs.

From my understanding they are giving out one of each Toa each week, so they will be giving out 36 Toa total over the six-week period.

I ought to warn you to refrain from arguments like that. They often end up sounding like a three-year-old made them. Anyway, having built this set I can say with certainty that it has an exceptional function! The wings snap open and closed with a satisfying "click". The function looks even cooler when the stickers are added, since the patterns on the 2x2 round tiles rotate with the wings! In general, this set is a lot of fun, and for $15 it's a great value. I love how the Jade Blade is sized appropriately for the mech to carry it, though for Jay to carry it himself, its bladed handle is a bit ridiculously large.