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Bionicle = Hero Factory = Ninjago = Nexo Knights


Lenny7092

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Hi, guys!:) When I look Four big Lego themes, Bionicle, Hero Factory, Ninjago, and Nexo Knights, I see some interesting similarities between them:

1. Their stories all have groups of heroes who have rookies that take spotlights.

2. They involve elements, which are fire, electricity, and earth.

3. They involve technology and abnormal-looking vehicles.

4. All of themes’ stories are on the similar levels of character development, how they’re constructed, and humor.

5. They all have dragons.

 

These may be too common if you think so, there’s another interesting thing:

You see, Bionicle’s characters are constraction figures and involved with elemental powers.

Hero Factory’s characters also are constraction figures, but they are less involved with elemental powers and have more advanced technology than Bionicle’s.

Ninjago’s characters are minifigures and involved with elemental powers.

Nexo Knights’ characters also are minifigures, but they are less involved with elemental powers and have more advanced technology than Ninjago’s.

So, when I look at these qualities, I would say that Hero Factory is Bionicle’s technology counterpart, Ninjago is Bionicle’s minifigure counterpart, and Nexo Knights is Ninjago’s technology counterpart and Hero Factory’s minifigure counterpart. You see, it’s like a square. I’m not sure about Hero-Factory-and-Ninjago and Bionicle-and-Nexo-Knights counterpart comparisons, but they share some more common stuff.

 

Of course, Legends of Chima is sort of like them, but these themes are more developed than Legends of Chima. Plus, Legends of Chima is a part of Ninjago’s story, anyway.

 

So, what do you guys think of the comparisons? Interesting, huh?:)

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I like Lego, Bionicle, and Hero Factory!:)

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It's not really a difficult code to crack; it's been LEGO's formula since forever. Themes like Knights Kingdom and Exo Force fall in with the others too. It works for LEGO, though I've found it to often be lackluster in execution. Some themes did interesting things with it like Bionicle and Exo Force, others remain painfully simplistic and un-engaging. It works best when the pattern is used and then either broken or displaced to show more interesting/complex ideas. Ninjago's not too bad either but LEGO caters to the image of children and usually those sensibilities don't work for me.

 

I think the broadest way of describing the pattern is "colored heroes with unique and special powers work together to defeat darkness/evil doer and their minions and restore light to realm." Some of the similarities you describe are not consistent among all those themes, like dragons and the element of lightning.

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It's not really a difficult code to crack; it's been LEGO's formula since forever. Themes like Knights Kingdom and Exo Force fall in with the others too. It works for LEGO, though I've found it to often be lackluster in execution. Some themes did interesting things with it like Bionicle and Exo Force, others remain painfully simplistic and un-engaging. It works best when the pattern is used and then either broken or displaced to show more interesting/complex ideas. Ninjago's not too bad either but LEGO caters to the image of children and usually those sensibilities don't work for me.

 

I think the broadest way of describing the pattern is "colored heroes with unique and special powers work together to defeat darkness/evil doer and their minions and restore light to realm." Some of the similarities you describe are not consistent among all those themes, like dragons and the element of lightning.

Lego has four basic models for themes

Tech

Adventure

Castle/Magic

Classic

 

Some lines like Ninjago and Bionicle became special because they blended models of tech magic and adventure all into unique stories.

Hey I got a Flickr because I like making LEGO stuff.

https://www.flickr.com/people/toatimelord/
 

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I personally don't mind LEGO doing this too much, for the same general reason I don't mind Disney retelling fairy tales over and over again. There will also be young children who aren't familiar with tropes or clichés, so it's good to have a reliable company to introduce them to common stories in relevant ways. Even though I'd love to raise children on the LEGO sets and stories I had, I know they'd always inevitably compare it to whatever they see on store shelves.

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