Okay, so Lego's recent sets fail. This is truthiness, and for many reasons. I will attempt to list some of them here.

Proportions on any set 06 onward are so hideous that I don't keep them built for more than a minute, if I even build them at all. Limb lengths are utterly off, shoulders are much wider than they should be, torso is paper-thin. Same torso parts are reused to the point where every torso is a clone of the previous one. And I thought Lego decided not to clone sets. These sets look look to me as if a 4-year-old decided to draw people. Lego, I'm sure your designers are older than that?

On the subject of the Newva, why would making them similar to their 03 forms make them sell worse? Optimus Prime gets re-issued every few months, looking almost exactly the same each time, and still, he sells. Bionicle's target age range probably doesn't remember the 03 Nuva, so that shouldn't affect sales. And the older Bionicle fans, who remember them, would, I think, be more likely to buy the sets if they resembled their 03 forms more closely. And, if selling sets that resemble sets sold in 03 would make them sell worse, how much worse do you think they'd sell if they resembled the sets from just the last year?

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Yes, this is similar to a few of my previous entries. But I tested the rant out IRL, and it seems to work much better this way.

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