Legends of Chima 2013 (Action Figures)

[Aethersprite]

If you continue watching to the Marketing Campaign section, you'll notice that they use bags as well - with the finalised (earlier pictures we saw) pictures on them.

[Cahillrebel]

Guys! Look at the instore part and you will see a picture of the Eagle set(Forgot it's name) on a display box shown. It is blue obviously.

[DraikNova]

I saw that too, but that might just be a playtheme set.

[Shakar]

My friend seen these:

Speedorz

• 70107 - Skunk Attack £9.99
  
• 70108 - Royal Roost £9.99
  
• 70109 - Whirling Vines £9.99
  
• 70110 - Tower Target £9.99
  
• 70111 - Swamp Jump £9.99
  
• 70112 - Croc Chomp £9.99
  
• 70114 - Sky Joust Speedorz Starter £14.99
  

Ultrabuilds Figures

• 70200 - CHI Laval £10.99
  
• 70201 - CHI Eris £10.99
  
• 70202 - CHI Gorzan £10.99
  
• 70203 - CHI Cragger £10.99
  
• 70204 - CHI Worriz £10.99
  
• 70205 - CHI Razar £10.99
  

Regular Sets

• 70007 – Eglor’s Twin Bike £19.99
  
• 70008 - Gorzan’s Gorilla Striker £49.99
  
• 70009 - Worriz’ Combat Lair £59.99
  
• 70010 - The Lion CHI Temple £99.99
  

EDIT: I was right with the prices of 70008 and 70009.

So the Ultrabuilds are going be pricier than the Speedorz? 15 Euro for them would've been enough, this is too much.

[DraikNova]

Thirteen euros seems reasonable enough to me, especially for a larger set like Gorzan.

[Cahillrebel]

I also think next to the display was a shot of blue Eagle and another Gorilla. Maybe the other set was Worriz because the set by the display had a Gorilla minifig under it. Unless we get two Gorilla guys, that is my best bet.

[Bigger Fish]

I'm kinda sad that they changed Cragger's blades from the unique, alligator motifed ones to the generic ones. I really liked the croc-motifed blades.

[Mesonak]

I'm kinda sad that they changed Cragger's blades from the unique, alligator motifed ones to the generic ones. I really liked the croc-motifed blades.

The unique ones are final, the generic ones are prototypes.

[Dorek]

(we think)

[Mesonak]

(we think)

Yeah, good point - we don't know with absolutely certainty. It's just a pretty safe bet considering the whole video is littered with prototypes.

[dviddy]

It's usually pretty safe to bet that the photo with finished-looking new moulds is going to be the more final version than the one with generic parts.

Usually.

[Shakar]

I read the Brickset article and, to be fair, I can't exactly blame its writer for calling the sets "terrible". To one who doesn't know much about HF (he even compared them to the Super Heroes Ultrabuilds, rather than the HF system they're built upon), the way the sets look can be a bit jarring. You can't except the article writer to write "Cragger includes more dark green 3M shells, and introduces the shoulder armour shell in the same colour. Eris seems to use what looks to be azure cladding!".

And to be fair, I can't say I love Laval's and Cragger's heads too much, I'm mainly in for the pieces and the designs* (and Eris, provided she looks as cute as her minifig). Actually, it seems most of us see the sets as parts packs.

*Personally, my hope is that the sets show lightly more experimentation with the HF building system, like the SH Ultrabuilds did (with mixed results, but I still appreciated it a lot). In terms of MOCing, HF provides me little inspiration this year, at least the Winter wave. The Chima figures already look more creative than those sets to me, what with Gorzan being a Hulk done better, the birds finally introducing some new wings, Cragger having a unique torso and Laval having feral looking legs.

Thirteen euros seems reasonable enough to me, especially for a larger set like Gorzan.

Those are pounds, though. Speedorz are 10 pounds and 15 Euro, CHI figures are 11 pounds so they're going to be even more expensive than Super Hero Ultrabuilds..

Still, I just checked and mid size Hero Factory sets (Pyrox, Ogrum, etc..) and those are priced at 10 pounds too, so the CHI sets might be 15 Euro (which would allow for more slghtly more complex designs like Gorzan's Hulk-esque design+longer limbs).

[Rocketbilly]

I read the Brickset article and, to be fair, I can't exactly blame its writer for calling the sets "terrible". To one who doesn't know much about HF (he even compared them to the Super Heroes Ultrabuilds, rather than the HF system they're built upon), the way the sets look can be a bit jarring. You can't except the article writer to write "Cragger includes more dark green 3M shells, and introduces the shoulder armour shell in the same colour. Eris seems to use what looks to be azure cladding!".

And to be fair, I can't say I love Laval's and Cragger's heads too much, I'm mainly in for the pieces and the designs* (and Eris, provided she looks as cute as her minifig). Actually, it seems most of us see the sets as parts packs.

*Personally, my hope is that the sets show lightly more experimentation with the HF building system, like the SH Ultrabuilds did (with mixed results, but I still appreciated it a lot). In terms of MOCing, HF provides me little inspiration this year, at least the Winter wave. The Chima figures already look more creative than those sets to me, what with Gorzan being a Hulk done better, the birds finally introducing some new wings, Cragger having a unique torso and Laval having feral looking legs.

Those are pounds, though. Speedorz are 10 pounds and 15 Euro, CHI figures are 11 pounds so they're going to be even more expensive than Super Hero Ultrabuilds..

Still, I just checked and mid size Hero Factory sets (Pyrox, Ogrum, etc..) and those are priced at 10 pounds too, so the CHI sets might be 15 Euro (which would allow for more slghtly more complex designs like Gorzan's Hulk-esque design+longer limbs).

Every time I've seen the Super Hero Ultrabuild sets they've been priced at either £10.97 or in some places, £11.97. It seems like these Chi figures are going to meet the same price point. I find it odd to note that all of the 2012 figures that came in bags were £1 less than their equivalent sized sets from the year before. This year the smaller sized sets are back up to the original pre- 2012 price of £7.99 which makes these Chi figures look like a better deal than the Ultrabuilds did when compared to the Hero Factory of that year...so I'm quite happy with the price point really.

I really hope that these sets sell well enough for LEGO to produce further waves of them but don't sell so well that they out-perform Hero Factory and Lego begins to shift its Constraction focus towards these Chima figures instead of Hero Factory. I suppose with Hero Factory the designers can pretty much go wild but with Chima they're (presumably) only ever going to be restricted to anthropomorphic animals. I can't see them making too many vehicles for these larger Chima figures, for example...

Edited January 23, 2013 by Rocketbilly

[DraikNova]

I've translated the prices using a program on my computer. And since the SH ultrabuilds and the medium-sized HF sets cost about that much, I think that's a pretty probable price.

Here's hoping the TV show features these as more than just one-second Chi-induced ghosts in later episodes.

[PenPlays]

If they transform into giant beasts in the show, they'll lose me as a show loyal (unless they can really pull it off).

[Devorath]

If they transform into giant beasts in the show, they'll lose me as a show loyal (unless they can really pull it off).

Agreed. MAYBE if they work reallllly hard they might be able to say they made them just for the sake of doing it. Which I think is they case.

[DarkSurgeXL]

There will be six of them, launched in August, one for each tribe. They are also packed in pouches and are very similar to last year's Super Heroes buildable figures in terms of size and components. They appear to use existing parts from the waist down and I suspect their skeleton is identical to the SH figs. Their torso plates are similar to that on the Iron Man one I have in front of me (the only one I have), I can't recall if they were all different in shape, or just different prints.

They all have new heads and some, the lion, gorilla and wolf, have large hands fitted with robot arms for fingers and, in the case of the lion, claws fitted to them. They each have a weapon which might be new or might be recycled HF. The eagle and raven have wings made from the wing parts used in the minifig sets.

It appears that there will be instructions to combine models to make larger ones.

Another one from Brickset.

So we are getting combiner models for Chima constraction? I'm sort of scared about how they look like.

[Logan McOwen]

"It's too Childish!"

"It's a try hard copy of Thundercats!"

"The characters have no s*x appeal!"

Typical, whiny Furry stuff.

[Mr. Gundam]

"The characters have no s*x appeal!"

Wait....Someone wanted s*x appeal in LEGO brand???

If the Combiners are anything like HF, they could be cool. Although, very disappointed the wing are made out of minifigs

Edited January 24, 2013 by Mr. Gundam

[Dorek]

Wait, are we not allowed to say "sex" on Eurobricks? Of all the things...

Anyway, nothing particularly new there, although the combiners aspect is interesting; much like HF, I'm sure it will be non-canon, but interesting nonetheless. Will they combine with their specific nemesis, as HF does, or just a different creature? Or like the SH Ultrabuilds, where they had a triple combiner as well...

[DraikNova]

Why we're allowed to say a new set looks "sexy" however...

I'm guessing the combiners will be three-set ones.

[Shakar]

Well, they better make a Eris x Laval Eris+Laval Eris-Laval combination model, because that would make a gryphon, which would be sweet.

"It's too Childish!" "It's a try hard copy of Thundercats!" "The characters have no s*x appeal!" Typical, whiny Furry stuff.

They're Lego minifigures, do they really need to be sexy? Anyway, I'll quote myself from the HF topic:

The thing is, he said Evo and Aquagon used a "different shade of blue". And you don't need to know about HF to tell blue and turquoise apart. This doesn't surprise me entirely, since I had noticed Evo's and Stormer's visors had slightly different hues in the animated episode.

I think Evo/Aquagon use the regular tr. blue (like Breakout Stringer), while Stormer/Frost Beast use this colour. It makes sense when you think that Stormer's flick missiles use Chima crystals, and those are indeed Trans-Light Blue.

Since Laval uses 4M shells and Rocka blades like Stormer does, maybe he doesn't use tr. blue afterall, but Trans-Light Blue. It maches the colour of Chi.

[DraikNova]

That would make more sense, but I fear that would look rather disappointing.

[Aanchir]

Well, they better make a Eris x Laval Eris+Laval Eris-Laval combination model, because that would make a gryphon, which would be sweet.

They're Lego minifigures, do they really need to be sexy? Anyway, I'll quote myself from the HF topic:

Since Laval uses 4M shells and Rocka blades like Stormer does, maybe he doesn't use tr. blue afterall, but Trans-Light Blue. It maches the colour of Chi.

That's true, but in the photo we've seen (preliminary or not), the shells were clearly regular Trans-Blue. Not so sure about the blades. Regardless, if it turns out those photos are still preliminary, then all bets are off.

On a side note, I'd say that Eris's minifigure is plenty sexy as far as minifigures go. If the furry community was expecting the male characters to have rippling muscles and the female characters to have sleek curves then they clearly don't understand the nature of the LEGO minifigure. Now, I may easily hold the Eris constraction set to a higher standard since she WILL be less blocky and geometric by default, though to be honest I think most HF parts have enough of a balance of angles and curves to look fairly unisex.

Edited January 24, 2013 by Aanchir

[ZORK64]

Wait....Someone wanted s*x appeal in LEGO brand???

Shipping (and... erotic fan art) seems apparently rather common in the Furry Fandom (a friend of mine is a furry).

From that viewpoint I can understand why Chima doesn't bode well with the community - after all, they still look blocky and robotic, and not very furry-like.

But I guess that's off-topic enough.

If the Combiners are anything like HF, they could be cool. Although, very disappointed the wing are made out of minifigs

Wait what? Wings made out of minifigs?!

Edited April 14, 2013 by ZORK64