You're just developing your mutant strength. Unfortunately, you shouldn't have posted this, cause now the Sentinels will use it to track you down.

 

 

Tis a good set, but one issue here: Bright Yellowish Green? What's wrong with "Lime Green", LEGO?

 

I don't mind flick fire missiles, but I also don't use them too often because there's an air vent in my room's floor and it's just begging to swallow any vagrant lego pieces. (it's eviiiiiil) Also they're just generally easy to lose. (case in point, I just picked up my Eris Eagle Interceptor and tried out one of its wing missiles and now I think it's either partying among my laundry or lost forever (way to go me))

 

But no yeah, these things can go pretty far. At least if you do it yourself. I've found that functions that are meant to fire them for you suck. Gorzan's Gorilla Striker's six chest-missiles are a hilarious and hardcore little feature that I love, but would love more if they didn't just fall to the floor after an inch or so. Not cool.

 

(and they seriously so easy to lose. there go my croc-copter missiles....)

I like flick missiles when well integrated into the design. Unfortunately, only one out of every hundred sets featuring them do so. In pretty much every IFB set, they've been slapped on like an afterthought.

 

Also, I can't take the flea machine seriously because one of my siblings says the name sounds like what a grouchy neighbor character calls a protagonist's dog as an insult. Like, "Emily Elizabeth, get that big red flea machine out of my yard!"

Tis a good set, but one issue here: Bright Yellowish Green? What's wrong with "Lime Green", LEGO?

Well, funny you should ask that! Back in the day, many of the official color names were developed according to a VERY organized system. Not all, mind you — there were some perplexing color names like "Light Orange Brown" (Bricklink's Earth Orange) even back in the old days — but many. And unlike Bricklink names, many of these official names help emphasize the RELATIONSHIP between certain seemingly unrelated colors.

 

Here's a chart I made showcasing the relationship between many of these colors. Bright Yellowish Green is called that because it literally occupies the space between Bright Yellow and Bright Green, the same way Bright Yellowish Orange (Bricklink's Medium Orange, the color of the Gukko's beak) occupies the space between Bright Yellow and Bright Orange or Bright Bluish Green (Bricklink's Dark Turquoise, or what BIONICLE fans call "teal") occupies the space between Bright Blue and Bright Green.

 

This chart also helps demonstrate the reasoning behind some of the less intuitive LEGO color names. The official name for Mata Brown is Earth Orange, and you can see here it has the same relationship to Bright Orange (Mata Orange) as Earth Blue (Metru Blue) has to Bright Blue (Mata Blue). The official name for Bricklink's Dark Tan is Sand Yellow, meaning it is in the same family as colors like Sand Red, Sand Blue, Sand Green, and Sand Violet. Tan, in turn, is officially called Brick Yellow. On another interesting note, Mata Green (classic LEGO green) is not actually called Bright Green like most other Mata colors, but rather Dark Green, which lies midway between Bright Green and Earth Green (Metru Green).

 

Sorry for rambling... you really shouldn't get me talking about colors! I can go on for hours!

 

But no yeah, these things can go pretty far. At least if you do it yourself. I've found that functions that are meant to fire them for you suck. Gorzan's Gorilla Striker's six chest-missiles are a hilarious and hardcore little feature that I love, but would love more if they didn't just fall to the floor after an inch or so. Not cool.

I think it depends on the design. For starters, flick missiles angled upwards get better range in general than those just angled forwards. Also, you generally won't get such good range from ones that fire multiple missiles at once as from those that fire them individually. At least, not reliably. I do remember getting good results from 5982 Smash 'n' Grab from the Space Police III theme, which has a very simple mechanism to fire the two individual missiles on the front.

 

I like flick missiles when well integrated into the design. Unfortunately, only one out of every hundred sets featuring them do so. In pretty much every IFB set, they've been slapped on like an afterthought.

Normally I feel sort of the same way. I mean, they don't BOTHER me a lot even when they're just slapped on, because I don't feel they really hurt the design (in this case, in fact, they actually help balance the design on a visual level since the click shooter and zip line are stored on the other side of the machine), but on a set that's already got plenty of other more interesting and well-integrated features they often do tend to feel a bit... superfluous. That's part of why I was so utterly surprised at how well they worked here. I expected them to be the most lackluster play feature. Instead, they worked astonishingly well.

You're just developing your mutant strength. Unfortunately, you shouldn't have posted this, cause now the Sentinels will use it to track you down.

 

 

Tis a good set, but one issue here: Bright Yellowish Green? What's wrong with "Lime Green", LEGO?

 

Also, actual limes aren't typically the same color as Bright Yellowish Green—they're typically more like Bright Green or even Dark Green (Mata Green). When I was talking about Bionicle colors to someone unfamiliar with Lego once, they got confused as to what the color I described as "Lime Green" actually looked like.