Tanu Toa of Earth

It wasn't already? Wow, that's surprising. Shame it didn't happen back when Lego's products were sheer awesome. Now things seem to be getting more kid-like. Seriously, Ninjago even devolved into the stuff you give first graders, and Chima is kindergarten stuff.

 

Also unpredictable is: Mattel? I haven't seen a major Mattel product being awesome...well, ever! I was thinking Hasbro.

 

Nonetheless, good job Lego.

This. Very much this. However, Ninjago really wasn't THAT bad. Chima sort of is though.

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(especially when imagination is eaten away by mindless entertainment)

Don't you mean mindless Stromlings? [/offtopic]

Anyway, yeah, I guess you guys are right, Chima IS still a very young theme and I suppose I'll just have to wait and see... However, unless TLG REALLY throws a curveball, it feels to me like Chima can only add a few junky plot twists or *barf* more tribes... to me, it might've been wiser for Chima to start with only three or four tribes and expand a bit from there. There are already far too many nearly-identical-in-plot-purpose tribes for it to be interesting... that factor alone may be why I consider Chima to be so much worse than Ninjago.

I can see it now: Toa with Olmak camping the side of Karda Nui Village. One portal on Spawn, other portal off the side of cliff. Hope you brought a Miru.

A Miru, Kadin, or (trust me, I use it a lot) Kualsi.

Not sure if this is really unpopular or not (and not sure if I haven't already said this!) but in my opinion, since around 2006 BIONICLE's coolness went down like the Ignika, and at about the same rate. Voya Nui was great, Mahri Nui was okay, the Phantoka and Mistika just seemed a bit silly to me, and everything past that really was just decent, besides the story serials which remained awesome until they got needlessly overcomplicated.

Out comes a metal Krana-Kal with the powers of a Crast.In boredom, I toss it back in.

Out flies a giant metal Crast, which knocks you in the head as it flies before smashing a passing Kewa to bits. I throw the Kewa's pieces in.

 

 

Better than Sup-Matoran, though.

That sounds like Matoran of 'Sup, Matoran of Supper, or Super Matoran.

Matoran of Supper? Do they have elemental Dinner powers?

Agh, now I can't think of anything except Takua with King Harkinian's face from LoZ CDi...

Haha.

Examples

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• Creating plates and/or piles of Dinner.
• Controlling Dinner.
• Absorbing Dinner.
• Immobilizing beings by trapping them within a pile of Dinner.
• Unleashing a Dinner Nova Blast. (Toa-exclusive)

Combinations

• Beings other than Toa and the Krahka cannot combine powers of any sort to create a Protodermis Cage. As long as each wields a different element, and providing that Light and Shadow are not included at the same time, then any six Toa can create a Protodermis Cage.

...Seems legit.

EDIT: Silly me. I forgot about the Baterra.

That's not really the case. Matoran are mass produced. There's a standard form, which as we know, is in fact the Metru Nui Matoran form. To top it off, as people have said a few times, all other forms have explanations for their appearance.

That doesn't account for the Mahritoran (Southern Continent Matoran) - their forms are their originals, it seems. We still have no idea why they look how they look. If I had to guess, that particular type of armor looks more well-adapted to slightly wilder environments, with longer arms, bigger limbs in general, and a lighter and less cumbersome chestplate, whereas Metru-Nui Matoran have what look like relatively heavy, strong chestplates and smallish arms, possibly designed specifically for city life, though I don't quite know how.

Yeah. In Lewa's(and the rest of the Toa Mata's) case, their joint tissue hadn't been used for 100,000 years (the time in the canisters in Karda Nui and Aqua Magna) so they began to decay and detach, then as bonesiii said, grow new ones later. For Lewa, though, it was both legs and one arm, according to Legends #1 Island of Doom.

Hm, so that implies that Lewa's body basically started to die inside that canister while his mind remained... yuck.

Abnormally high resistance to being in contact with very hot materials (moreso than Ta-Matoran), rather than simply a general higher-than-average resistance to high temperatures, perhaps? As far as Gravity... My guess would be that Ba-Matoran could have particularly tough armor and be really hard to crush. Bo-Matoran and Fa-Matoran are harder to say... I would imagine Bo-Matoran being resistant to plant-based poisons or some such thing, though. Now the only question is the preferred region. Bo-Matoran? That's easy. Everything else? No idea!

Ugh, for the Great Beings' sake, and for that of the larger part of the community here on the BZPower Forums, I think we'd better hope that LoC does fail. I admit, I did buy two Chima sets (and was almost completely satisfied with them), and I will certainly be playing the MMO, or at least its F2P portion, however I really don't want this to keep going on past summer. If it does (and succeeds), LEGO will most likely start launching more horribly cheesy themes aimed at a similar age group, which would pretty much disperse all but the most dedicated of TFOLs/AFOLs, which would be a shame considering what a great group you/we (I'm 13... not really sure if that makes me a TFOL or not) all are. We'd then have to wait for things to swing back around the other way, which may take anywhere between two and ten or so years... an amount of time that nobody will be waiting on a toy company for. Thankfully, something tells me that this won't really work out.

Once again, people saying the Chima show sucks, yet it's only had 2 episodes so far. Looking at Ninjago's first two episodes, and the first two episodes only, you have the immature hot-headed know-it-all Kai, the guy with the worst jokes Jay, the socially awkward one Zane, the body-building jock Cole, the stereotypical wise old man Sensei Wu, the typical dark, evil, shadowy Garmadon, and the damsel in distress Nya, I don't see why Ninjago is that much better than Chima so far. Probably because barely anybody saw the first episodes of Ninjago, because they were barely promoted and only available on LEGO.com and [video site] in a low quality. Read some of the discussion areas of Cartoon Network's website and the kids absolutely love the show, and I've seen many times "it's so much better than the ninjas" and other similar opinions.

Uhh, me and my little brother watched those first Ninjago episodes quite a few times on On Demand, and even my MOTHER likes them. Yes, the characters are basically what you described there, but... look at their equivalents in Chima. For instance, let's take Sensei Wu and King Lagravis, the main "wise old men" of the two series. However, Wu has certain little quirks and aspects that make him unique. If you can find ONE memorable thing about Lagravis that distinguishes him from your average garden-variety mentor/father figure, then I'd be quite surprised. And don't get me started on the main protagonists.

Apparently the names are Rhogon (Rhino) and Bladvix (Bear... as if I needed to say it).I didn't watch it, but maybe later, I guess. There are certainly conflicting opinions around the show, haha. Also, vaguely relevant, the set description for the upcoming Skunk Attack set caught my eye, in addition to the fact that the wolves hate the skunks because they bother the wolves' great sense of smell.

Attach Skinnet onto the skunk Speedor, pull the ripcord and unleash the power.

Er... unleash the power, to attack the wolves.Okay.

 

I think that none of the tribes really like the skunks. Laval said "Last one there is a rotten skunk", so I think they must have a pretty low social status in Chima. Also, the mention of elephants. Called it.

 

I repeat: Laval may be kind of a racist. He kept using what I'm assuming where anti-croc slurs throughout the entire thing. Laval is not the best role model.

He's a teenager lion growing up in the 21st century ghetto of Chima. Yeah now that you point it out, he has quite a few "prejudices". Maybe it's the hip thing over there in Chima, ya know?

That is a possibility, however for Chima that seems kind of strange, especially since it's a theme directed towards younger children...

Shizznit. I was going to watch these at some point, but after what I've heard from you guys... Especially about Eris. I found her MInifigure and her vehicle to be aweosme, so I was hopping that she herself would be awesome in the show, but nooooo. Of course not.

 

There are 8 tribes. In addition to the five in this winter wave, the gorillas, rhinos and bears are also apparently being featured in Chima.

Whoa, wait, what? Bears and rhinos are confirmed? That's pretty cool. I wonder which side they'll each take.

 

Yep. The bears appear to be allied with the lions (a video shows Cragger beating one up) and the rhinos with the crocs (they're seen with Worriz). Which is keeping consistent with Ugly Animals=Bad, Cute/Cool Animals=Good.Either way, discussion of this (both the Serpentine in Chima and confirmation fo the two new tribes) seems more fit for the main Chima thread.

Wrong. If all the cute and/or cool animals were good, the Wolves would be aligned with the Lions. Just saying.

A MMO? Guess people really miss Lego Universe.

Of course we do. It's just a shame that they had to make the new MMOs during a period of time when they seem to have shifted their focus to the younger part of their audience.

Not that this is constructive in any way, but... This story is great, and it kept me entertained when I couldn't find anything else to do. Thanks. A lot.

It blows up in your face for being such a horrible person.In goes Breakout Breez and Lesovikk's sea sled.

Well, a metallic sky blue and light silver hero actually wouldn't hurt either, if done right. I saw one as a frequently-reappearing background character in the Breakout movie thingy (He (Maybe she?) had Breez's helmet in metallic sky blue... I call him Jonathan Zephyr. ), and even just from the few glimpses I saw, that character looked pretty good. I also agree with what someone said earlier, 2.0 chest plates on Breakout torso armor actually looks better than any other hero body design to date, but a redesign of said chest plates, or maybe even multiple unique ones for different heroes, wouldn't be a bad thing either.

The only thing I like about the alien empress is that she has a purple cape... I love purple Minifig accessories, and I can imagine LU minifig MOCers using that piece for Maelstrom-aligned characters with capes, so another Awesomeness Point to the cape from that. :3Otherwise most of them are kind of meh except for maybe the Conquistador's armor and MAYBE a few other minor bits for certain things (The Santa beard, fairy legs and DJ hair, for instance.)

...Out comes a conveniently duplicated weaponized version of Nixie's Key, complete with HF-electro-sword-piece-style wielding options.I pick them up and give it to a random Toa of Water who walks by. She tests them out by whacking a doglike Spherus Magna animal into the pool with one of them, then channeling her power through the key-swords to knock another one in. She walks away, satisfied.At least according to my story, the former MU inhabitants underwent a transformation that made them into basically (fully biological) Agori/Glatorian with Matoran/Toa/Turaga power rules. That Toa of Water looks rather attractive, though I'm not quite used to that feeling yet. Excuse me while I leave the vicinity of the pool to stare at her for a little while... (...which is just an odd RP reason for me to stop posing every other freaking time. )But anyway, what happens to the doglike SM animals?

Out comes Takua gone completely mad (u).I get annoyed with him and throw him in the pool but my mask (A painted yellow noble Kiril-shaped Great Kiril, duh.) accidentally falls in as well. I use my long-range Suva to switch to my normal black Great Akaku and am totally unfazed, but what about Takua?

Out goes a slightly taller and stronger version of that Matoran. With wings.In goes a Thornax fruit.

Hmm, a Disk of Stealth-equipped flying vehicle would be cool. Now we just have to figure out how to make a Disk of Stealth... A Disk of Concealment plus a Reconstitute at Random disk? Nah, that would result in a Tryna disk in my opinion. Let's try Concealment plus Shrinking! ... Nope, that's probably one of those other obscure cloaking powers. Concealment plus... Another Concealment and a Freeze disk? :PAnyway, on to more serious matters, I'm no expert on this stuff (In fact, I'm a total noob, and probably shouldn't even be posting here. ), but I'd think that the inside and outside would turn invisible, assuming the Kanoka was powerful enough. However, the question is, what if a Concealment disk was powerful enough to cover the hull with its power but not the inside? You'd have to do odd things to get it to actually only apply its power to the hull and not just partially conceal the hull and the inside, but... it's a theoretical possibility, right?

Cool. :)A general Great Being boss would be cool, but it would require an idea of what Great Beings look like. They could build minions, turrets, and stuff, and have the ability to teleport. THAT would be awesome IMO.

...Out comes an obscure type of serrated sword used by a random species that lived in the Southern Islands that is made from protosteel.In goes that sword. It is destroyed and nothing comes out.In goes a noble Arthron.