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Rolling In The New Year

ChocolateFrogs

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Same New Year's resolutions as usual: More reading, more LEGO building...

 

Since 7th grade or so two friends and I have always celebrated New Year's Eve hanging out at each others' houses. Mid-high school we then started celebrating NYE and the 4th of July at one of their second houses in the country, on 3 acres of land where we can properly shoot off fireworks and the local authorities don't care. Over the years we bring along more and more friends, along with his siblings' friends--slowly an awesome hangout "party" emerged.

 

This year was no different and was definitely all kinds of awesome.

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NYE is usually the time when my friends also exchange Christmas gifts. Because we're awesome like that.

I gave some great gifts, and also got some cool stuff: Awesome stylized Doctor Who t-shirt, a DW comic compendium for the 4th-6th Doctors, and Jay's Storm Fighter (which I just call the Ninjago Jetplane).

 

The jet is neat. More than neat, I'm really impressed with how cool it is. The pieces are great, but more than that is the build (some stuff I never would have thought TLG would do, considering how dull and easy a lot of their sets are, if you know what I mean). And the function--the wings spring open to show off four menacing blades--is something of its own. Pointless and probably making the jet impossible to fly, of course, but still...

 

Except that some of the hinges that make the wings fling out are not loose enough so it only kind of works.

And the snake figure it not nearly as cool as the one in Kai's motorcycle.

Also, if the ninjas have a jet, does it have an invisible stealth mode?

 

Hey, what is with these gold snake staff things? It's not like I pay attention to the story at all, but I would assume the ninjas want them?

 

-CF :kakama:

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The snake staffs (from what we've seen) contain the antivenom that reverses the effect of the snakes' powers-- so it negates the Hypnobrai's hypnosis, the Fangpyre's mutation, the Venomari's venom, etc.

 

They also basically designate the leader of the tribes, but that doesn't really affect the Ninja at all, since it's more a symbolic thing than anything else. If another snakeman were to win the staff from their tribe's leader in single combat, they'd become the new leader, but if the Ninja were to steal it, it wouldn't be any more meaningful than if someone stole the Crown Jewels and then claimed to be the new ruler of England.

 

I agree that the snake figure in the jet (Snappa) is boring-looking compared to Rattla from the motorcycle. In general I think the Hypnobrai (the blue and gray snakes) are cooler-looking than the Fangpyre (the red and white ones). As of yet only one of the Venomari, Lasha, has come in a set, and the other two tribes have not appeared in sets at all. But most of the pics we've seen of them look cool, so I suppose the Fangpyre serpentine are outliers.

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