Which leads me to the weapons, I really like the detail on all of the light up weapons, my only real complaint is some of the color choices for the lights, why does a fire sword have a green light instead of a red one? I'm thinking if I can taking them apart and switching the lights around a bit, if I can. The zamor is still the basic one you get with the Piraka, but with the extra holder, only problem is I had the extra zamor kinda clogging up the firing system. The little extras on some of the toa are kinda cool, I love Hewkii's chain and where Nuparu has the back mounted launcher (even if it cant really move that much when attached) but I don't know why Nuparu needed the claws too, they look great and are great peices, but they just seem kind thrown in.
Next we get to the masks, like most of the things on the Inika I both love and hate them, I love the look of all of them and the new textures, but that just makes me even more sad when I realize I can't put them on any regular face. I really wish there was a peg or something, and I dont like the heads in general, espcially when Im trying to ge thte mask off and the whole head just comes off the body.
Ahh yes, the body....where to begin....Rember way back when we all complained that from the front the metruan looked great but from behind they looked horrible? That's about how I feal about the Inika, from the front they look great, great detail and most of them have good colors (ME WANT MORE SEE THRUW PARTS!!), but the back side looks horrible, all just holes and they are really really flat. Even Nicole Richie is calling them skinny (ok so that was a low blow, I apologize). Now the Piraka would have basically the same problem but they have those cool spines to cover for it, the Inika have nothing.
Overall, all the new parts and colors are great, but I usually dont care that much about mocing ability and care about how they will look on the shelf, so to me they are a bit of a let down. To be honest as of right now they are my least favorite toa, though that may change as time goes by. But now Toa are my favorite sets so they're still up there on my list. And the repeatness of the sets is bad, I build one using instructions then using only the pictures on the box made all the others, then went back and checked that everything matched up with the instructions. I think the problem is that many of the canned Bionicle overall are turning more into action figures (remeber last time Lego tried to make action figures? or the failed show they were based on?) then they are constructed sets, going for pretty and simply instead of robotic and fun.
Give me a bionicle with gears over one with Kungu Fu grip anyday
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