Legends of Chima 2013

GRogall · December 13, 2012

Added more HR links here!

Enjoy! :tongue:

lightningtiger · December 13, 2012

I get the feeling 70003 reminds me a little of both Mark's jet from Battle Of The Planets and Hawk's fighter from 1981 Buck Rogers. :look:

Thanks 'GRogall' for the links......interesting - best one by far the croc ship ! :grin:

Edited December 13, 2012 by lightningtiger

Gryphon Ink · December 13, 2012

What did we learn today, kids? Crooler is the first minifig with a navel piercing ever. Actually, she and Razcal are the first minifigs with piercings I've ever seen..

I hadn't even noticed there was a female croc in there. Never would have noticed her navel piercing. She looks pretty cool actually, but I'm vaguely disgruntled about the whole "piercings=EVIIIIL!" concept that TLG is so crazy about lately. The Mordor orcs all have lots of facial piercings, and so did a couple of the undead pirates in POTC. I guess the movies themselves are more to blame than TLG, but here they're perpetuating it in their own theme.

DraikNova · December 13, 2012

I rather like the spinning-top thing in the Speedorz Starter Set.

GRogall · December 13, 2012

Added some more pics!

nrg · December 13, 2012

DraikNova · December 13, 2012

There´s a topic for the constraction figures: topic.

CM4Sci · December 13, 2012

:wub: Thank you, Gorgall! You really are the hi-res hero. :tongue:

Looking at the pics closely (don't know why) I noticed a few odd things:

Laval has 2 'heads'. One with a smile, and one with a 'grr' expression.

The Jungle Gates image is a CGI render. Lennox's nose is brown and there's a random wooden thing in the middle of the second 'goal'.

Longtooth's head in the Chi Battles set is turned a little too much to the left.

:tongue:

-Sci

Jargo · December 13, 2012

My random noticings: In the croc boat set one of the upper teeth has been knocked inwards and one of the lime cheese slopes isn't pressed down for optimum clutch. Also Craggers cloak is being worn off the shoulder for the photoshoot. :sweet:

Rizzo the raven has no talons on his good foot or indeed any leg printing on that leg.

The random thing in the jungle gates set image looks like a malformed minifig torso. Possibly an artifact of a rushed rendering process. :sceptic:

In the lion archway Cragger vs Laval set there's a whacking great fingerprint visible on the right side of the arch on the brown arch brick. Tsk! :hmpf_bad: :grin:

Edited December 13, 2012 by Jargo

CM4Sci · December 14, 2012

This is making me excited all over:

http://blog.naver.com/legoblog/

-Sci

Crownie · December 14, 2012

Retail tradeshow?

This display is fantastic! Chima doesn't appeal to me as much as some of the other LEGO lines available, but this promotional display case definitely makes me wish I liked it more. (If that makes any sense.) Oh so awesome...my inner model geek is going nuts! :laugh:

Edited December 14, 2012 by Crownie

Vindicare · December 14, 2012

Ooh! That picture is awesome! Its got me excited for these even more. I love the bird battle! :grin:

DraikNova · December 14, 2012

Wow, that display is amazing. And it turns out that there's a small compartment under the Croc's "helicoptail".

**WhiteFang** · December 14, 2012

Thank you GRograll for the wonderful hi-res images. It's very nice to see them in greater clarity.

GRogall · December 14, 2012

Looks like there will also be some books!?

German translation.

Eagles vs. Wolves

Lions vs. Krocodiles

they seem to be hard cover but not sure if story or notebook!?

Kai NRG · December 14, 2012

That set-up looks fantastic, really makes me wish LEGO sold trees and floating rocks... :laugh: Looks like the speedorz will be used in the TV show, something that was always lacking in Ninjago - they used Spinjitzu, but you never saw the spinner! (Not that I wanted to see spinners all over. But then buying the spinners doesn't do you much good if you want to recreate the story (except for the figs, I guess). Seems like Chima will use the Speedorz a lot. :thumbup: )

Anyway, here are how the speedorz work, for anyone who doesn't want to go scrolling through the website in Korean... :tongue:

Edit: Since I can't embed it, here it is. It's not working any more, but you can still scroll though to find it.

Edited December 14, 2012 by Kai NRG

Shakar · December 14, 2012

I hadn't even noticed there was a female croc in there. Never would have noticed her navel piercing. She looks pretty cool actually, but I'm vaguely disgruntled about the whole "piercings=EVIIIIL!" concept that TLG is so crazy about lately. The Mordor orcs all have lots of facial piercings, and so did a couple of the undead pirates in POTC. I guess the movies themselves are more to blame than TLG, but here they're perpetuating it in their own theme.

Yeah, I agree on that. I don't wear any piercings, but I consider them pretty cool. Razcal, the Raven in the small set, has 4-5 rings on his face too. I'd like a good guy with piercings, maybe an Eagle or a Gorilla...

DraikNova · December 14, 2012

Grogall, I think we've already seen those books.

Chocolatecake · December 14, 2012

I just spottet a chima-figure on e-bay, but I thougth that it wasn't released yet.

Aanchir · December 14, 2012

Looks like there will also be some books!?

German translation.

Eagles vs. Wolves

Lions vs. Krocodiles

they seem to be hard cover but not sure if story or notebook!?

They are probably combination story books/guide books like the various hardcover Ninjago books published by Ladybird (in the UK), Nelson (in Germany), and AMEET (in Poland). See here, for example.

I listed those as well as three American Chima books published by Scholastic in this post.

From the look of things, these will also be published in some form by Ladybird (link), though like their Ninjago books this seems to be a compilation of both the German books. I have never owned any versions of these books so have not been able to verify if the Ninjago books by Ladybird end up removing content by condensing the continental European editions into "two in one" editions.

TheLegoDr · December 14, 2012

That display is awesome! I agree, I'm not too interested in this theme, but just seeing that does make me wish I liked it more. But there are too many sets out there to get, so lines have to be drawn somewhere!

Maybe I'll change my mind once the gorillas come around.