Jacked Lego Maniac

I liked the lava monsters better, actually.

Loving the new battle-suits (wish they had more articulation, though), and Lance's robo-horse.

Clay, beyond all doubt.

You can never go wrong with Aquanauts.

With Tron lines.

Yeah, they're great, and coincidentally enough, the colour-scheme matches the lava monsters almost exactly. Cool idea.

Someone's still pining for the old Lego Family, I see.

It's probably fairly obvious that I'm an unabashed Nexo Knights afficionado. However, my love for the theme is not entirely unreserved. One aspect of it that I don't particularly care for is the idea that the Knighton Royal Soldiers are robots, both because I have an intense dislike of robot proxy-soldiers to begin with and also because they seem entirely redundant alongside the Clay/Lance/Aaron/Macy/Axl/King's bots. With that in mind, I wanted to set about reworking the Royal Soldier minifigures with the idea that they were human troops troops tasked with backing up the Nexo Knights in battle. First of all, I discarded the great helms/kettle hats that the figures came with (they're not quite aesthetically congruent with the other armoured bits from the theme with their exposed bolts and whatnot) and replaced them with Ultimate Clay helmets fitted with Aaron visors, which I felt were the most "generic" if you will of the various Knights'. Then I outfitted them with the solid flat silver armours from Ultimate Robin and a few other sets. The idea is that the Nexo abilities that the Knights utilise is incredibly power-consuming, and thus can only be deployed on a very limited scale, hence their use is restricted to the Knights themselves. The common soldiers instead have ordinary powered armour without the Nexo uplink (and thus no glowing orange pauldrons. Finally, I wanted some weapons for the troops in the style of Lance, Axl or Macy, rather than generic spears and longswords. I really wish the lightsaber handle and round 1x1 open studs were available in flat silver, but on the whole, I'm quite pleased with the results. After all, who doesn't love a translucent neon-orange chainsaw?

Indeed.

I'd love to see more mechs/exo-suits, but the only System-scale brick-built characters/creatures that don't inevitably look utterly horrible are robots.

Heh, funny, I was just reading an article about the process of creature-design from the movie Deep Rising... Mushlord cries himself to sleep at night wishing he had the recipe for those cookies.

It's Lego, everything is cutified to some extent. Don't knock the lava monsters, man. "Lava monsters spawned by the Book of Monsters" is basically kid-friendly code for "demons summoned from Hell by the Necromicon." Ambulatory mushrooms and seaweed ain't got nothing on that.

Just about anything, really. It's hard to conceive of something less threatening than an old dead tree.

Series 7, because Galaxy Patrol.

It's a rotten tree. Diseased or not, that's just not very intimidating.

The lava people are all pretty straightforwardly threatening in appearance. Their aquatic and arboreal equivalents can only be described as cutesy.

I'd buy it.

Love mushrooms. I just don't think either the aquatic or forest monsters gel very well with the overall aesthetic of the theme. They both look like they'd be more at home amongst the Elves range.

Me.

The more Knights the better, I say. Also, if Robin is going to be "The Black Knight" going forward, I really hope they give him a new helmet (preferably along the lines of Clay, Aaron and Axl) and a growth-spurt.

Never bought any of these sets because I always thought the monster figures looked hideous (aesthetically speaking) and because I was incensed that they'd dropped Harry Cane from the cast of characters.

Unless they introduce new knights...

I really want to see the 23860 blade in the standard Nexo translucent neon orange.

The only Ultimate I've ever seen on sale is Robin. Clay and Aaron are frequently sold out in my experience.

Isn't there already a thread for anti-Nexo Knights whinging in the Historical themes sub-forum?