Radicool21

I was half-asleep when I had this "breakthrough"- Ekimu is just Vakama after the Mask of Life resets the MU. Something along the lines of Artakha giving Vakama the Mask of Creation because he was the only person who'd ever created a Legendary Mask besides the Great Beings and sending him to Bota Magna with his teleportation powers. I honestly have no idea. Also, I'm another one who thought the figure in the Bara Magna poster was Matoro.

I, personally, would retcon everything up until the end of Journey's End. I wasn't a huge fan of The Powers that Be or The Yesterday Quest, they just seemed really rushed and not as well-thought-out as the rest of Greg's writing. I'd just remove Mata Nui's final request and we'd all be living happily ever after. Set-wise, the last set should've been the Mata Nui robot. It's where we'd been from 2001 to 2008, from the beginning to the end. I'd imagine it'd be about Kardas-sized or larger, and would likely be brick-built, but I still think that would be cool. Alternatively, if we were to continue the story the way it currently is, I'd just want Velika to not kill all the super-powerful beings- I thought Karzahni and Tren Krom had immense amounts of storyline potential, and just killing off Axonn, Brutaka, Miserix, Vezon, Helryx, Artakha, and the others would make the stories really bland IMO. I would have really liked to see a Great Being civil war though. Perhaps Tren Krom, embittered after the MU's treatment of him, decides to join Velika's side and is simply against the former MU inhabitants. Imagine a Skakdi Fusion vs. Tren Krom fight As for Takanuva, I think it'd be cool if there would be some way to work in the ending of the first movie into it, i.e. the Kolhii match. Just a thought there; will probaby elaborate later.

I'm really excited for these sets! First off, as many people have noted, I absolutely love the integration of the Nuva symbols into everyone's designs- printed on the chest armor and as a pattern on the mask. Second, it seems to me like they're going to have hip articulation, which is gonna be great. Very Nuva-esque with all the metallic armor and weapons. In addition, all the masks are very movie-like: Gali's mask reminds me a lot of Nokama's from the second movie. The only things I dislike set-wise are: -The gold kneecaps on Kopaka. TLG, you made Kopaka white, silver, and blue, that's a good color scheme... so why would you slap gold kneecaps on him? -Pohatu in general. Oh gosh, he's a mess. Way too many colors. Nothing any good builder couldn't fix, though. Otherwise, I think these all look great. Will definitely get Lewa, at least.