Some Observations
Some thoughts I've had since first clear canister and CGI pictures, then instructions, then finally the sets themselves, have come out in the past few days...
- Pohatu being orange is so much better than yellow-orange, if rather perplexing at first.
So is Pohatu's head – orange mask, ice visor, neon green eyes, and a bloody red axle. It's the red axle that causes it, of course; if he had a black axle it would be fine, or if he had orange eyes.
Kopaka with lime eyes is also bleh – not only is the return of the one-eye-color-per-team absolutely boring, it's even more boring that the two colors (counting the Makuta here) are the only Metru eyepieces Lego's used since 2004 with Lhikan. It would have been nice to break that streak for the Toa Nuva, wouldn't it?
The Trydax pods being trans-orange is surprising to me. I'm not complaining; I just think trans-red would have worked better aesthetically.
The Makuta are way too thin in the waist for their shoulders.
Pohatu's mask being orange means that it being anything other than the Vahi is simply not an option to me. I don't think anyone can dispute that, if shown Pohatu Phantoka's mask without any prior knowledge of it, they would instantly think of the Vahi. (Whether you can see the Kakama in it or not when told it's not the Vahi is a different matter entirely.)
To clarify things that may have been misconceived recently, I'm not objecting to the Miru and Akaku Phantoka as being their respective masks – I just don't think they're recognizable at a glance. As I said at the very beginning, what I thought of them as the masks would depend on how the Nuva acquired the new forms. (The "Kakama," however...)
The Matoran intrigue me, now that clear and multi-pose CGI pictures exist. I don't think they're bad, but I got to musing about them with Alsru and came up with some ideas I'd have liked to better fulfill their potential....That was more thoughts than I had thought I had. I hope I'm not boring you readers by constantly harping on the Phantoka, but my blog is rather the best place to dump these. Plus, it usually leads to interesting comments to read. (Though I'd rather this remained a simple exchange of thoughts than the debates these entries turned into a while ago.)
Page one of The Spirit Falls is mostly inked... and I have other stuff to put in this blog, but again the week's been way too busy for me to do anything. Fortunately it's the sort of business that I enjoy rather than constant "Oh Mata Nui why do I have to do these things" business. And there's still a bunch of snow here; we had at least six inches this morning...
I suppose I shall end by wishing everyone a happy Hannukah, since tonight is the third night thereof. If you don't celebrate it (hey, I don't), just enjoy the time!
~ ToM
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