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These sets always have been too expensive for my taste- I think they'd be fun to have on a desk to play around with, and unfortunately my only experience with them so far is the Ender Dragon set, which, well wasn't great. With that said, this set looks to be pretty cool, definitely the sort of big-detail-filled set I have wanted from Minecraft. At it's price I'll probably once more pass this up for the time being, but it's definitely one it'd like to get my hands on at some point as my "one and done" set from the line. Besides the Ender dragon... let's just forget that set existed

The problem with any voice acting is that before people hear a character talk, you get an idea of what you think the character should sound like by just imagining in your head while reading a book. I disliked many of the voices in the official films (and games for that matter) because they didn't align with what I had imagined the characters to sound like. That doesn't mean the voices were bad, just not how I envisioned them to be based on character traits. With that said, if you do voices, just try to give each character a voice that suits their personality and traits, and that's really the best thing you can do. But every filmmaker on YouTube and the like will have their own spin- you just have to make your film and see if it feels right with/without voices because most likely the product you are most happy with will be the one you are going to want to stick with.

If we get another Kylo- and provided there are no major costume changes- I would anticipate Lego would give him a maskless head. I'm certainly hoping we don't get another Kylo as I'm perfectly happy with the one we got and would like the spotlight to be shifted to other characters. That's one instance where I'd gladly take another stormtrooper variant over another Kylo. Rey, on the other hand, I'd certainly take a new version, preferably one without a piece of headgear.

Actually that was not previously clickable- you are right that you could always link back to a post, but previously you would do that by clicking on the post number that would be on the upper right of each post. The "posted xxxx at xxx" wasn't a hyperlink previously. Since post numbers are no longer there, this was their way of preserving that linking feature.

The only one I have of the three is the Tumbler, but I think it's a fantastic display piece. It looks great and really does a stellar job of capturing the complicated design of the Tumbler from the films. With that said, I think that this one is quite a bit different than your other two options in the sense that there really isn't much in the way of playability. While the other sets are clearly minifigure scale and are meant to interact with them, the figures in this set simply stay on the display stand. You can move the wings of the Tumbler around a little, access the interior, and roll it around. You can also lift the "rocket pods" however I have found that they don't like to stay up very well with time and i'm working on building a stronger method to hold them up. I did prepare of a review of this set a while ago, be sure to take a look at that when considering your options- Rufus did an outstanding review of the Tower of Orthanc, though it appears our review of Queen Ann's Revenge is suffering some photo issues.

I seem to have stolen your title for the day. February 22nd was all I saw and it sounded good enough to me.

I love the builds of these, some great and innovative uses for pieces here- especially large ones such as the rafts and power miner wheels. Katsumoto is my personal favorite, I can never turn down a Samurai inspired build, specially one as good as that. Definitely be sure to log on more in the future, I'd love to see more of your MOCs posted here and encourage becoming more active in our community!

I can't say I'm surprised that they went with that storm trooper instead of the white/blue one, certainly makes it easier to make a "standard" trooper. Still, he does look very similar to the death trooper in build which is expected- I just really hope we get more figures this year besides just two more troopers. The scout is cool, can't wait to get my hands on that set. If anything, both of these feature awesome helmets from the looks of it- when it comes to helmeted characters, lego really has been killing it lately.

Eurobricks member WARHEAD is always coming up with good-looking and innovative new designs, and this week he's made no exception- Be sure to head to the Action Figures forum and check out his latest MOCs, Dekaimano Buster V and The Exterminator!

Ben 10 aren't bad. If anything, they had some advantages when they were released because they were the 'concept" of a new, more durable socket, and so compared to the similar Bionicle sets released that year, the joints were far more durable on Ben 10. To add to that, the pieces are much more easily compatible with Bionicle/Hero Factory than the Galidor line was. The sets were definitely pricey for what you got and the builds were silly simple, but the parts are definitely not common and come in a few interesting shades, so theres that. The only other thing I can comment on is that the McD's Galidor sets were...well not good, but acceptable to my child self. They are basically three pieces, with the legs being static, the arms on a single rotation, and a head with a single rotation. You can swap the legs, torsos and heads among the characters, but that's about it. I'd pass on those and go for the full size galidor sets if you are interested in that theme.

The problem here is, I'm excited for a Scout Trooper with a speeder bike because of the speeder bike. The trooper himself will likely be pretty barebones, and at the most, he won't really offer a whole lot that the FO Stormtrooper already has. But then we are getting a Commander? I hope they are going with the Blue and White styled one, and not the orange-pauldroned OT variant which would be extremely boring in comparison. But then, on that note, why not just make Rex? Either way, I hope Lego doesn't shoot themselves in the foot by offering up more stormies and losing sales as a result of oversaturating the line with them. I think adding a vehicle is a great move, but at a high price point, I really hope to see another 4 figures at lower pricepoints (for the sake of sales.)

I will be doing all of the figures soon here, including my own take on the Death Trooper (Though now that you've gone in depth with the text, I can just defer to your review if people want to do some reading!) But I'm going to go with the TFA figures first, I've got a lot of catching up to do Anyway, great review and very informative! Someone else reviewing something? Before me? BLASPHEMY! I agree with a lot of your points here and I share the concern of many that something about his proportions seem a little wonky. I feel as if the torso is too short of the legs, and I do tend the see the legs as a bit to thin and lanky. The pauldron, while an interesting idea, just seems odd to me and I would have liked a more complicated alternative, but it's certainly better than having nothing at all. His headsculpt is far and above one of my favorites of the series so far- While I love the other helmet designs, this one takes that extra step in detailing with the multiple pieces and whatnot. I adore that the green is actually a separate piece and not just a print on the black.

There are plenty of wishlist/future themes threads in here to voice your hopes for future lines, please defer to those threads, such as this one.. Thanks!

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I've been extremely busy as of late, however I do plan to eventually review all of the figures (including the force awakens figures) I just picked up the Death Trooper on sale yesterday.

Hi everyone, I made a purchase the other day and got some VIP promotional stuff. I don't really have a use for these, so let me know of your offer and maybe we can make a deal (I'm looking to sell all of it as a set to make things easy) U.S. ONLY PLEASE. If you are international, you will need to have someone in the US that I can send these to who can in turn send them to you.

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In the future I would watch your tone before you make a post. If you don't like a MOC, don't post unless you have some constructive criticism to add.

In my opinion this is one of the best combo models we've seen "officially" in constraction in quite a few years. I'll definitely try my hand at this and throw some of my own review-style photos up (and maybe buy a shapeways mask and do a faux-review style of this Makuta? Seems fun to me and would make it feel like I completed my reviews more wholesomely! I'd get a black MoUP though) Of course, with that said, I also need to find my LoSS pieces...because he's not exactly constructed right now.

I really feel the marketing was problematic in this generation. Yes, LEGO went full force at SDCC. That's great, it reached media outside of the LEGO online communities. People knew about it and it generated interest. And that was it, after that we had what, a few contests that were limited to online LEGO communities? A majority of people who entered and knew about those contests were already members of communities and already aware of Bionicle. The next push towards gaining a broader audience was JTO- once again, a marketing tool that really was only effective for attracting attention of people who were already Bionicle fans. If you were just a casual netflix watcher, how likely is it that you would have come across JTO? Even within Netflix, there was no advertising for it, which is astounding given it was a Netflix original show. In my opinion LEGO blew their load in the first 5 minutes of the race with SDCC and didn't follow the marketing funnel for retention and reiterating marketing- they hoped that would generate the hype it needed and they could just reap the interest from that event alone for the 3 year plan. The additional marketing tools they used help strengthen some of the interest gained from SDCC, but it didn't grow that interest. Of course we don't really know why it failed in specific so we are all just whipping eachother with tissue paper right now. I'll say this and you'll say that, but the theme wasn't firing on all cylinders, that's obviously clear. That's likely all we WILL know.