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"Dear, I have something to confess to you. I'm... a furry." "You're what?" "Nah just kidding. I'm actually an adult fan of LEGO." "Oh, well that's not so bad then." Problem solved.

Pretty nice, but one thing I notice is that the black stripe on the side appears on one of the side view pics and not on the other. I also notice that you haven't corrected what I consider one of the more glaring issues with the official set, that being that the black stripe is interrupted right in front of the doors. It looks like in your mod, like in the official set, this could be fixed quite easily by simply replacing some of the grey plates underneath the hood tiles with black ones (in the official set, only a single 4x8 plate needs to be swapped).

Well, that and the fact that a lot of people assume anything they haven't heard of before it became related to one of their interests is just a gimmick or fad that will fall out of the public favor in a few months. And the unfortunate fact that when some AFOLs see something they haven't heard of get 10,000 supporters, they assume the votes are rigged or otherwise somehow less valid than AFOL-generated projects. And the even more unfortunate fact that some AFOLs assume any LEGO set without minifigures is doomed to fail!

To be fair, this is a genuine point of contention. Pretty much all the people developing the Ninjago series refer to the pilot as Season 1, the next 13 episodes as Season 2, and the most recent 13 episodes as Season 3. Cartoon Network and Warner Home Video take a different approach with good reason, because I think a lot of people would feel cheated if they paid for a "Season 1" DVD and got a grand total of two episodes. Anyway, yeah, IMDB is unreliable when it comes to this kind of thing. Generally when it comes to future products or media, I don't trust wikis or other user-generated sources unless they can cite a non-user-generated source where their information came from.

Well, to be honest, I don't have too much preference what parts TLG makes as long as they continue to make them well. Just compare some of the weapon parts this year, many of which are shared with the Chima constraction sets, to a lot of the 2.0 weapons. This year's newer weapons are much simpler and thus in many cases more effective for making custom weapons, despite having fewer connection points. And thankfully we've moved past BIONICLE's tendency to have a new and specialized weapon piece for each individual character. Still, I do feel positively giddy every time I see a new bone piece. Waspix's connector piece, XT4's torso beam, and Stormer XL's 3M double ball cup have been far more useful to me than I could have anticipated. Anyway, back on-topic: these custom beams are quite nice! I notice you avoided parts with ball cups, which is probably for the best... given how long it took TLG to come up with a design that wouldn't break, I can't imagine how hard it might be for a fan to do the same through 3-D printing. They are definitely very BIONICLE-like in that there is a "male" connection at each end rather than one end being "male" and the other being "female". But that doesn't make them any less compatible with Hero Factory's CCBS. Keep on innovating! I look forward to seeing what other parts you might dream up!

Huh, fancy that. I DID get a prize for third place. I'll find something to do with those sets I suppose, though I have to admit that as soon as I realized I wouldn't be getting first or second place Lyi and I went ahead and bought the summer Brain Attack villain sets. Guess that teaches me not to count my chickens before they hatch! I'm sure it won't be hard to find something to do with additional copies of these sets. If I do keep them for myself, they have great value in terms of MOCing potential, and if not, I know some people who might greatly appreciate them. The winning entries are all extremely nice designs, and it's clear that their creators put a lot of work into them. I hope the winners who got signed copies of the sets appreciate the value of those signatures, and I hope all the other prize-winners make good use of those parts in future MOCs! Thanks to everyone who entered and really showed off how strong Eurobricks's constraction building community is!

How do you propose to do that, though? Prohibiting LDD-based images would be overkill. A submission drawn in pencil is just as valid as one built with real or digital bricks. After all, the purpose of the images is simply to demonstrate the concept. Realistically, there shouldn't be any need for that kind of thing, because crappy projects are supposed to simply get buried by more successful projects and not get in anybody's way. The point of LEGO Cuusoo is that users determine which projects are good, well-presented concepts and which are not — placing that responsibility on LEGO Cuusoo staff defeats the purpose. Anyway, what exactly are you viewing or searching for that is turning up these kinds of entries? As for the Minecraft projects... it's a bit of an enigma. Creating ANY project to fit into an existing theme, unless it's radically different in concept than the existing sets within that theme, is a risky endeavor. A Ninjago chess set or pinball machine might stand a chance of success, but a Ninjago playset is riskier because it might conflict with the sets TLG already intends to produce within that theme. Add a license and you complicate things even further. But many of the Minecraft projects were created before people knew that that was going to become an ongoing theme. And besides a few which are identical on a conceptual level to the already-announced sets, they haven't completely lost hope of being viable products. Again, user activity should be what decides how prominent these projects get. Ideally, people will stop creating and supporting as many new projects based on the Minecraft set template now that they've seen how risky that has become. There should be no need to "purge" projects that fit this template any more than to "purge" projects based on the Modular Building template or based on other existing licenses: they should eventually disappear into the background as newer and more promising projects are created. Remember Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crap". It should not be a surprise to anyone that there are a lot of crappy and hopeless LEGO Cuusoo projects, because the platform is designed to invite input from as many sources as possible. The purpose of the Cuusoo platform, then, is to give the general public the opportunity to say what is crap and what is not. If the LEGO Group were intent on making that decision all on their own, then they wouldn't need to open up product idea submissions to public supporters at all. They could just have an e-mail form where you send in ideas, and they read and judge each and every one independently. Naturally, this would be extremely inefficient, but that's essentially the direction you have to move if you expect Cuusoo moderators to be the judges of project quality. It's much more efficient to just put up with the negligible burden of ignoring crappy proposals and let them filter into the background organically.

Another thing to keep in mind is that die-hard AFOLs often have more discriminating tastes than adults who like LEGO as a more casual interest. An average adult who is looking at a set based on their favorite franchise will judge it according to its authenticity and its novelty. And even the authenticity requirement is subject to the viewer's expectations. An adult who isn't used to thinking of LEGO as much more than a box of blocks won't be too knowledgable about just how much authenticity is possible, just as we AFOLs weren't back when the LEGO Star Wars line was new and we put up with some remarkably clunky and inaccurate builds. An AFOL's purchasing decisions, on the other hand, have a lot more factors. AFOLs tend to look closer at what parts and building techniques a set uses, and how applicable those parts and building techniques are to certain themes they collect. This makes AFOL support on Cuusoo an especially tough thing to earn, considering that voting for something according to its parts and building techniques is unreliable when those features of a model are liable to change during the final design process. This makes it a lot harder to vote for things based on their "AFOL appeal", even for AFOLs! Other than the "cool factor" of the concept itself, some of the only things that can really reliably be expected to stay the same between a LEGO Cuusoo proposal and a final set based on that concept are its size and its functionality. For this reason, there's very little reason why an AFOL's idea of what would make a good set is any more valid than any other adult's insights.

Thanks! I was able to confirm this for myself at Brickfair! The CHI patterns also use the metallic blue ink color that was introduced for NRG Jay and NRG Zane. All in all, the use of these metallic inks makes the printed chest plates look even more awesome in real life than they look in photos. I wonder if CHI Gorzan's stickers use metallic colors... if they don't, then I'm slightly disappointed because his chest pattern will be less impressive than those of other five figures.

Might be worthwhile to ask for a replacement anyway. Even if the replacement doesn't fix the problem, asking for a replacement helps the LEGO Group know for sure that this is in fact a widespread problem. Perhaps ask via e-mail rather than through their online form so that you can include a photo of the problem.

Regarding Dragon Bolt's small size, I think part of the reason you get that impression is because you have the neck angled up so high. If the neck is angled in more of a forward direction, like on the LDD model I made back when we only had a few pics from Toy Fairs and I was doing my best to reverse-engineer the design from those, his head doesn't seem so disproportionate to his body and the brain slug's tail rests more or less flat against the back of his neck. It also helps to keep the legs more bent, rather than as straight as you have them in many photos. He doesn't have to be pressed against the ground, but the image where you have him in such a pose is a little more flattering than some of the others. I feel that if he were made much larger, he'd be less swooshable, which would be a huge affront to his playability. The tail could perhaps be made a bit longer but I hardly think it's essential. Keep in mind that the typical hero figure is similar in height to a Toa Mata or Toa Nuva, and even the medium-sized heroes are only around the height of a Toa Metru. As such a monster or villain hardly has to be comparable in size to BIONICLE's largest titans like Kardas to seem formidable. I like the red button because it's fun to imagine it as a Legend of Zelda–style weak point. To disable him you have to hit his back, right between his wings! Overall I can't think of the last time I had this much fun with a Hero Factory set. There have been plenty with nice designs, but few that automatically present so much storytelling and play potential. Saturday evening after I built him, I had a fantastic time swooshing him around the Brickfair exhibition hall!

I bought and built Dragon Bolt over the weekend, and I have to say it is maybe the most elegant Hero Factory set I've owned. I was already more or less willing to settle for his size, but now holding him in my hand I feel his size couldn't be more perfect. Because I hadn't considered one factor in his appeal before I built the set. He is, as the LEGO Space community might say, swooshable. You can fit your hand perfectly around his midsection and zoom him around a room while flapping his wings, which would be awkward if not impossible were he the size of, say, the Kardas Dragon. The design of his mouth works wonderfully, although there's a slight gap towards the back of his lower jaw. The lack of articulation in his wings is a bit frustrating sometimes (especially when trying to transport him, since they can't fold back), but like Bruizer's arm, it's understandable. If the wings were not rigid then the flapping function would tend to loosen the joints, meaning they would fail to hold their shape after a few flaps. His tail is not terribly long, but then again, it's not terribly short. It probably can't be weaponized like it is in the Brain Attack TV episode but it still has that wonderful serpentine look a dragon's tail needs when he's in flight. If his price point were bumped up by five dollars he could be made a bit larger, but I don't think it's necessary and in fact I feel it's good to have a set this refined at the $20 price point. Another thing about him is that the building experience is perfectly in line with the building experience of any other set this size. One person I showed him to at Brickfair commented that he "didn't seem like a Hero Factory set", but I disagree. The shell and beam system is still central to his build, and the majority of his Technic components are simple and modular in design. You can actually snap the tail segment and "wing pack" right off of the torso beam (the latter is actually called for when making the Surge/Dragon Bolt combi model). I'd actually say his design is a little less complex and intricate than Fire Lord's. To provide extra support for the arms and legs, that set had a quite complex, almost unwieldy Technic construction built on the back of his torso and arms, which requires almost complete disassembly to separate from the torso. This set goes together and comes apart in a way that feels much more simple and efficient. Dragon Bolt's brain is a nice design, with three colors rather than the usual two. The White Glow sections of the brain are the same as what would be Bright Red on any other brain, but the rest of the brain seems to be a mix of Bright Yellow and Transparent Light Blue, matching his lightning elements. The opacity of the Bright Yellow segments is most apparent on the front legs and "teeth" on the brain. Elsewhere, it is marbled with the Transparent Light Blue, though holding it up to the light reveals that the parts that are marbled with yellow are still much less transparent than the parts that are almost purely Transparent Light Blue. He's quite excellent as a parts pack as well, with nine blue shells and eight lightning pieces. Neither of these things is exclusive to this set, but Bright Blue is a somewhat rare color in Hero Factory these days, so it never hurts to have more of it. He's got one of XT4's 5x6 torso beams, a couple 5M C-beams, and four friction joints. He does have four Bright Yellow 16-module katanas and two Bright Blue 7.5-module Savage Planet claws, which are exclusive colors for this set, but I can't say they are what I'd consider the most desirable parts of the set. His faceplate excites me a bit, and I want to try using it on the torso of a MOC. Overall, though, with how fun he is to play with I've had a hard time convincing myself to break him down for parts! In general, I've loved the new Hero Factory building system, but I've usually coupled that with the acknowledgement that Hero Factory hasn't really had a set as elegant as some BIONICLE titans like Roodaka, Brutaka, and the 2008 Takanuva. Witch Doctor is pretty elegant in some respects, but it bothered me a bit that his design was so very Technic-intensive and that he had somewhat limited articulation (his hips, ankles, and shoulders can all rotate along two axes but not three, so when flat on the ground his feet will invariably point forward). To a certain extent, many of the ball joints in his design were being used just for the sake of friction, and that other than that there was no reason the same points of articulation couldn't be achieved with just Technic pins. Dragon Bolt has come a lot closer to challenging this condition than any other set at his price point. He's not exactly comparable to the BIONICLE sets I mentioned by virtue of being a non-humanoid, but his design is streamlined, articulated, and efficient. There are few egregious gaps in his build, but the Technic in his design is used chiefly for structural and functional purposes, not as space-filler. Overall he might be the first $20 set I'd wholeheartedly recommend to any Hero Factory fan. Pretty much every other set at that price point has had one awkward drawback or another. This one's drawbacks are few in number and don't really hurt his design from any angle. I think he's definitely the most desirable set of the Summer 2013 Brain Attack lineup.

Not necessarily. TLG uses a lot of 3D graphics in their ads, but graphic designers for TLG are responsible for a lot more than ads. Decorations on LEGO parts are created by graphic designers, for instance, and this requires experience working with 2D vector graphics. 3D graphics experience is probably not even a factor in that particular part of LEGO design. A lot of logos for individual themes are also created by graphic designers, and again, this typically requires more experience with typography and 2D vector graphics than with 3D rendering software.

Oh my god, these new bios are excellent! The scientist's bio is easily my favorite. A small excerpt: "Her studies of a certain outer dimension have even perfected a method for swapping body parts at will!"

Well, I can see a few reasons they might have opted for the solution they used. For one, it leaves some slight gaps in the side underneath the sloped portion, For another, it creates a somewhat awkward two-plate rise above the headlights. And finally, it doesn't create any obvious way to add the center module for the BTTF3 version. But at the same time, this is a very elegant custom solution. It'd be almost perfect if the sloped portion could be dropped one plate in height, eliminating the two-plate rise in the front and a lot of the gap on the sides, though of course that would require much more intensive modifications. I can't say this mod is necessary because I personally don't mind the stepped hood, but it might be a nice fix for those who aren't happy with the stepped hood and don't want to radically redesign the entire front of the vehicle.

But you seem to have missed a big part of my post. The part of your post I bolded is a huge and largely unfounded assumption. Creating a figure of a character as an exclusive does not stop TLG from creating a non-exclusive version of that character later on — even a non-exclusive version inspired by the same costume! TLG has only been producing and distributing exclusive figs at these kinds of events for a couple years now, but already people have figured that this is the only chance that there will ever be a Shazam figure, or a Bizarro figure, or a Jean Grey figure, or a Spider-Woman figure Currently, TLG has not had an incredible incentive to produce thess sorts of figures for sets. There has only been one X-Men set, which already included a handful of well-known and popular figures. Likewise, there has only been one Superman set other than the ones inspired by Man of Steel, and it was filled out with three well-known characters. Shazam doesn't carry the same brand-name recognition as Batman or Superman, and may have to "team up" with one of them if he's ever going to appear in a set. Likewise, Spider-Woman will not likely appear in a set unless she's teamed up with Spider-Man, and I don't know if she's even appeared in the show the Spider-Man sets are inspired by. Any of these characters could potentially show up as a promotional polybag set, but pretty much all of those so far in the Super Heroes theme have been very specific video-game or movie tie-ins, so the characters would still need a little bit more notoriety. I have no doubt that the decision to make these figures as exclusive giveaway figures was probably inspired by the fact that at the moment, they are not figures that are likely to appear in sets. But it's that at the moment thing that's critical. If any of these characters appeared prominently in a super hero movie or TV show that TLG was basing sets on, they'd put those characters into the sets in a heartbeat. And even if they don't, I am certain they might eventually get around to including them in sets as supporting characters for the more "mainstream" heroes and villains. They're just not necessarily on the "short list" like many more well-known characters like Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash, Wolverine, or Doctor Doom. So really, it has never been a choice between "release this figure as an exclusive" and "put this figure in a set". If these figures hadn't been released as exclusives, then chances are they wouldn't have appeared as official minifigures at all by this point in time. And yet there's still just as much of a possibility for them to appear in future sets — releasing the figures as exclusives hasn't reduced that possibility one bit. The circumstances just need to be right.

Good review. On one hand, I really like how his shoulders are designed. It's nice and simple, using Technic but not involving too much complexity. On the other hand, on CHI Gorzan in particular, it isn't entirely effective. Because the shoulder joints are basically behind the chest plate, it really limits his articulation a great deal, whereas the design used for Stormer XL and Hulk were perhaps even wider than they needed to be and left plenty of room for the arms to pivot. Overall, I think this is a flaw of that chest plate in general. The way it extends out to the sides even beyond the part that would correspond to a human's pectoral muscles makes it dreadfully hard to use without absurdly wide shoulders. Other flaws with CHI Gorzan include his back armor, which is pretty ineffective, and the fact that the mace's handle is too short — it ends where it meets the Y-joint, which is well before the end of his hands! But overall, he looks very gorilla-like and has great proportions. I just wish it didn't cost him so much in terms of articulation.

The benefit is that it drives attention to their booth and ensures people who visit will remember what they saw there. It's not really connected in any way to TLG's more widespread methods of minifigure distribution. These are just figs that are produced in small batches for the event. Minifigures produced in the tens of thousands for sets or promotions for the general public are minifigures that TLG expects to be able to sell in those quantities. I don't see what's poor business about doing something that improves media exposure but doesn't in any way harm collectors who can't make it to the event. And I imagine everyone in LEGO's core audience who knows about these figs will think "that's pretty cool", not "the LEGO Group doesn't care about me as much as the people at Comic-Con". After all, as a kid, not getting everything you want is an everyday reality, and having a complete collection is usually a lofty ideal, not the bare minimum for satisfaction. Otherwise things like Pokémon cards, which are made to be extremely difficult to collect, would not be so successful. I used to look at all the extremely exclusive promo cards in magazines, and my thought was never "man, this is so unfair that I can't get these", but rather "this is so cool; wouldn't it be amazing if I could be this lucky one day?" I can't think of any other way to describe the bitterness I see over these promotional items in the AFOL community other than a sense of entitlement. And I highly doubt the average kid lets this kind of thing get under their skin. It certainly didn't happen in the BIONICLE community, where the extremely rare Kanohi masks given away as contest prizes and promotional items a cause not for complaints, but celebration. Even today, it seems every time another one of these rare masks is sold on eBay it brings out a wave of happy nostalgia among the members of BIONICLE fansites. Some complain that the aftermarket price is unreasonable and you'd have to be crazy to pay it, but nobody ever suggests that the aftermarket price is the LEGO Group's fault for coming out with those exclusive items in the first place, or that it's "unfair" that those items weren't made more widely available. But you don't understand. It's not a choice between "release these figures in sets" and "release these figures as exclusives". The figures will be released in sets if TLG decides there's demand. Most of the time, to generate demand, it has to either be a timeless and instantly-recognizable character like Batman or Superman, or a set that ties in with some franchise that's being heavily promoted already like The Avengers or Man of Steel. I'm confident TLG determines what characters to put in sets without giving any significant thought to what has previously been an exclusive or what might be an exclusive in the future, because sets are invariably FAR more important than these exclusives and set designers know better than to let a "freebie" from the past limit the minifigure production that is an actual, meaningful part of their business. Obscure characters in their default costumes, or main characters in obscure costumes, are less reliable sellers than main characters in their default costumes. Shazam is a character I had never heard of growing up. Not once. I first learned about the character through Wikipedia. I can't say I had ever heard of Spider-Woman before Wikipedia either. But Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, and Wolverine are practically household names. Even Aquaman, despite being the butt of many jokes, is still less obscure than many of these characters, because he's a very familiar face from most television and comic book incarnations of the Justice League. I did know of Venom through video game reviews and Spider-Man 3, and of Bizarro through Seinfeld. :P And as we saw, Venom DID end up in a set. Bizarro still might easily show up in a set if he appears prominently in a Superman movie or cartoon, or if TLG decides there's demand for a Superman set other than a specific tie-in and need to borrow a familiar foe of his other than Lex Luthor. The same is true of any of these characters, really. But to appear in sets, they have to effectively compete against the more mainstream characters' more familiar allies and foes. The more people recognize a character, the more that character will help boost the sales of a set they're in. No matter what costume an "exclusive" fig appears in, they can still show up in that same costume in a set if TLG determines there's demand. After all, look at the Harry Potter theme. There are several outfits in that theme that are ostensibly derived from the same source material, but which have been re-imagined throughout the theme's lifespan according to changing minifigure design standards. Same goes for LEGO Star Wars. The original figs from the early 2000s have almost all been re-imagined into newer and fresher forms by now, without changing the costume they're supposed to represent. So there's no logic to the idea that making the figure's default costume into an exclusive fig precludes the possibility of it ever appearing in a non-exclusive fig. A minifigure is always an abstraction of a real person or character, and there's always more than one way to translate the same person or character into minifigure form, even without changing their costume one bit.

This piece is already available in some countries in this set. Not in the U.S. though. That set is a little bit less than desirable than AFOLs perhaps because it uses some rather specialized 4x10 chassis pieces, but it seems like it'd be a very efficient way to accumulate those as well as other useful pieces like 2x2 jumper plates or various Dark Azur pieces. Here's the full inventory of that set on Brickset. Here's the page for the wheel and here's the page for the tire. Currently that set and the Cargo Terminal are the only sets either part appears in.

I do not think TLG had bad intentions if they did in fact rig the raffle to give preference to kids. However, it is still ethically questionable to give adults who entered the raffle a false sense of hope. If TLG wanted to show preference to kids, which would be a very legitimate goal, they could have done something different. For instance, have two raffles—one for adults, one for kids—with a larger percentage of the prize pool offered through the kids' raffle than through the adults' raffle. That way any adult who enters the raffle knows what they're getting into. I do not think this is any reason to eliminate exclusive minifigures entirely, though. As far as I'm concerned, there is nothing wrong with exclusive minifigures. Not once have I read anything about an exclusive minifigure doing any kind of real harm to anyone. They're really just meant as souvenirs for visiting the LEGO booth at these kind of events, and I don't see anything wrong with that. It's not like they prevent similar figs from appearing in sets or do any harm to the current status of anyone's collection. Completionists may dislike them, but really if you're not willing and able to obtain the fig by any means you consider reasonable, then for all intents and purposes it doesn't make a difference to your collection that such a fig was ever created. Once it's in the aftermarket it's effectively no different than a fig created for TLG's internal use that got leaked to the public, like the George Lucas minifigure.

I personally liked the clockwork robot because it felt like a toy robot. I have a candy dispenser shaped like a retro toy robot that I got as a Christmas gift one time, and it has a lot of the same feel. The lady robot is a bit "weirder" but really I feel like it, too, hearkens back to a time when our vision of "robots" was a bit sillier. It doesn't look much like Rosie from the Jetsons specifically, but it's intending to capture the feel of that "retro" era, when robots were boxy and covered in superfluous mechanical doodads, but were still expected to simulate life as far as social functions were concerned. I once went to an exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. that was focused on the visions of the future that were promoted at the various World's Fairs prior to WWII. One thing that I thought epitomized this sort of silliness was Elektro, a human-sized robot that was supposed to perform many of the same functions as an actual human being, including things you'd never ever need a robot to do, such as smoking a cigarette. Back then it was a fascinating imitation of a living person — today we'd see a lot of its "tricks" as extremely superficial and useless for much of anything other than entertainment at parties. A lot of people criticize the lady robot as a poor excuse for a female minifigure, but I think that misses the point of the design: an attempt to repurpose the parts of the Clockwork Robot for a new figure that has the same retro charm, but is still unmistakably different. As such, we have a robot that is superficially female, but which on a practical level has no meaningful gender-based distinctions. I don't see how it's sexist to have a 1950s-ish female robot in a series when the whole reason for that figure's charm and novelty is its inherent ridiculousness. If it were meant to be a more futuristic, sci-fi, or even modern robot, then these traits would be pointless and out-of-place, but here they seem like deliberate attempts to make the figure appear silly and dated.

Good review. I can't say CHI Laval's color scheme is as well-organized as that of CHI Worriz, but then again Laval's primary color isn't a neutral color. I love all the gold parts in this set. One thing I've loved about CHI Laval since we first saw him is the fact that he has both two fully-articulated hands and armaments for each hand, something no Hero Factory set has ever been able to boast (think about it; in Hero Factory an articulated claw has always been presented as an alternative to a weapon). The inclusion of sturdy back armor also sets him above many Hero Factory sets. Of course, the Chima constraction sets pay for this well-roundedness with a higher price point than a small or medium-sized Hero Factory hero. Laval's combi model isn't as strong as some of the others, with asymmetrical shoulders that just feel disorganized and color blocking that is a bit suspect. Interestingly, combining this set with CHI Eris doesn't actually add any colors to CHI Laval's color scheme (transparent blue, warm gold, and white are all already present in the set's color scheme). So it really shows how important the organization of a color scheme is to a model's aesthetic.

Thanks for reviewing this guy! CHI Razar's armor design shows how just a few changes could have been major improvements for CHI Eris. His color scheme is a bit more organized-looking and his legs don't seem nearly as bony. I wonder if CHI Eris's larger weapon was the reason she couldn't include lower leg shells larger than 3M. The combi model for this set is quite neat as well.

Good review. I like CHI Eris's design, but I find it lacking in some respects, particularly the way the shells on the lower legs do a poor job hiding the bony black beams underneath. I think either using larger shells or rotating the shells to face forward would have improved the look of the legs. Her axe is cool and does a good job demonstrating how effective the Chima constraction sets' less specialized weapon molds can be at evoking more detailed custom weapons.

Good review! I wonder, is the red on his torso print the metallic red ink color that first appeared on NRG Cole last year, or just ordinary Dark Red printing? In some of your photos it looks like it's the former. That's pretty cool if that's the case. Worriz is a nice, refined model IMO, and he looks great despite his very basic humanoid design. Love the way the shield is attached to his paw, and the way he is designed with very solid back armor.