JELEINEN Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 http://www.lego.com/eng/exoforce/default.asp The sets look pretty cool, though a bit more Bionicle-ish than what I like. I love the hair and faces on the minifigs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfx Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 Am i just geeky or is this guy cosplaying as a Max DYRL? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjenius81 Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 i'd say so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent ONE Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 wow, legos have changed since I was a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kin Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 (edited) investment on crap... a waiste of money. Edited November 23, 2005 by Kin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JELEINEN Posted November 23, 2005 Author Share Posted November 23, 2005 (edited) investment on crap... a waiste of money. 346747[/snapback] Then don't buy them. I find LEGO to be a lot of fun, so not a waste for me at all. Edit: original snarky reply deleted. Edited November 23, 2005 by JELEINEN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gui Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 I'm really not fan of this 'recent' bionicle stuff but I have to admit that legos greatly improved during the last decade: some impressive stuff has been made possible For the ones who don't know this site, I recommend to check out BrickShelf once in a while: some of the stuff in there are made by people with great mastering What impress me the most are the smallest mechas: some of them can be surprisingly expressive despite the lack of details... It's in such case that you recognize authors with real talent, when the constraints and the limitations of size force them into using the smallest pieces and parts to get the best of them Some cool stuff available 'recently' (do not hesitate to click on 'Next' on the top right to see more pix of the model): http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1478804 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1463156 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1468203 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1442875 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1434756 If only I had time and money... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComicKaze Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 This guy is Max There's nothing worse than Western products trying to project a psuedo-Anime style in order to jump on the anime popularily bandwagon to make money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mechamaniac Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Am i just geeky or is this guy cosplaying as a Max DYRL? 346134[/snapback] Actually, he looks more like Lion-O from the Thundercats to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-ZeroOne Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 What always gets me about this sort of thing is I remember years ago a cousin of mine got the Lego fan-club magazine, and someone had sent in a Lego armoured car they had made. Lego noted that they liked the work but that they didn't normally like to promote warfare and fighting in their products. Now, they're talking about "taking out" things with the long-range laser rifle... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfx Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Oh sure...then what is Knights, Pirates etc about? Pirates and soldiers drinknig tea together? =.= Lego space used to be not about warfare then they had that space line where they fought robots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent ONE Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Am i just geeky or is this guy cosplaying as a Max DYRL? 346134[/snapback] Actually, he looks more like Lion-O from the Thundercats to me. 346885[/snapback] Snarf snarf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsu legato Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 There's nothing worse than Western products trying to project a psuedo-Anime style in order to jump on the anime popularily bandwagon to make money. 346863[/snapback] Yeah! Stupid businesses trying to make money. Wtf is up with that? They should just ignore market trends from now on. That said, these look less like Lego and more like straight up toys. Maybe I'm just nostalgic, but I liked the days when you had to actually build your Lego. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent ONE Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 There's nothing worse than Western products trying to project a psuedo-Anime style in order to jump on the anime popularily bandwagon to make money. 346863[/snapback] Yeah! Stupid businesses trying to make money. Wtf is up with that? They should just ignore market trends from now on. That said, these look less like Lego and more like straight up toys. Maybe I'm just nostalgic, but I liked the days when you had to actually build your Lego. 346922[/snapback] I agree with both your points. You gotta sell what people want, and yes, Legos went from interesting building toys, to action figure sets with some removable parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JELEINEN Posted November 23, 2005 Author Share Posted November 23, 2005 There's nothing worse than Western products trying to project a psuedo-Anime style in order to jump on the anime popularily bandwagon to make money. 346863[/snapback] Yeah! Stupid businesses trying to make money. Wtf is up with that? They should just ignore market trends from now on. That said, these look less like Lego and more like straight up toys. Maybe I'm just nostalgic, but I liked the days when you had to actually build your Lego. 346922[/snapback] Actually, LEGO is quite good about making sure that everything is built. If you were to open a box for one of these, you're just going to see a lot of small parts. If the end result looks like a unified whole, then the guys who designed the set did their job right. In fact, in the last five years, LEGO has gotten even more and more into making sure that their sets are about the building as much as the play afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumdumgai Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 This crap sucks. The whole point of legos was to build stuff. If I wanted to play with some crappy ass mecha thing I would have bought Exo-Squad toys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Max Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Oh sure...then what is Knights, Pirates etc about? Pirates and soldiers drinknig tea together? =.=Lego space used to be not about warfare then they had that space line where they fought robots. 346899[/snapback] I remember that stand they used to have against violence, they had space police and smugglers instead of star wars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JELEINEN Posted November 23, 2005 Author Share Posted November 23, 2005 This crap sucks.The whole point of legos was to build stuff. If I wanted to play with some crappy ass mecha thing I would have bought Exo-Squad toys. 346933[/snapback] Again, these are sets you build. They are entirely made up of separate pieces. I guess maybe it's because I'm used to LEGO, but I immediately spotted what bricks were used to make them without a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'Kyuun Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 As did I. Lego has come along way since the 80's. After acquiring the Star Wars license in 1999, the company has revolutionized the way it creates models, as well as introducing poseability and motion into them. They have lightened their non-violence stance as is evidenced in the Alpha Team, Dino Attack, Knight's Kingdom, Vikings, and even Bionicle. Even during the early 90's, the Pirates and Imperial sets featured cannons and cutlasses. I don't think the Lego Group will be producing any United Nations sets any time soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NERV Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 i read their comic on it, it seemed very voltron/power rangers i would bet money that the mechs will be combinable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB0 Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 I don't think the Lego Group will be producing any United Nations sets any time soon. 347069[/snapback] Thank goodness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JsARCLIGHT Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 I have not paid attention to lego blocks in decades... do they still make the big ol' buckets of random pieces, giant city street tiles and huge boxed "universal" sets that just let kids fuel their imagination and go wild or is everything a themed set now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent ONE Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 I have not paid attention to lego blocks in decades... do they still make the big ol' buckets of random pieces, giant city street tiles and huge boxed "universal" sets that just let kids fuel their imagination and go wild or is everything a themed set now? 347076[/snapback] I know what you mean, and thats exactly the draw I saw with Lego when I was a kid... Now there is nothing left to invent or left the imagination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JsARCLIGHT Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 I was "too old" for the regular legos when they came out but I did buy a few of the first "adult" lego sets back in the early eighties... the ones that were all like gears and sprockets and things. It was before they made the "Technical" sets that where like cars and stuff. All I remember is going into a toy store and buying a lego motor drive set, a few sets that where just like "universal gears and cogs" and a set that was like a base pad... just a big green field. I must have spent days building little motorized gear messes with those things. There seem to be a lot of legoheads here in this thread... do they still make those techie gear and cog sets with motors and stuff? I probably should walk down the lego isle next time I'm in a store myself and quit asking questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NERV Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 far as i can tell its pretty much just you build their set and anything else you try to make will sucks because they have all these specialized pieces now, there are prbobaly more specialized parts meant to be one tihng and one tihng only than there are regular bricks in todays lego sets, especially the star wars one, i know technic still exists and there is still some motorized stuff, lego has a remote controlled r2d2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Max Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 They still to do the technical and imagination sets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowlightman Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 There's nothing worse than Western products trying to project a psuedo-Anime style in order to jump on the anime popularily bandwagon to make money. 346863[/snapback] What? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NERV Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 please tell me that garnier ad is fake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumdumgai Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 No it's real. I used to see them while walking through the streets of Paris. There's also a tv ad that used to be played in the theaters before and between movie trailers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JELEINEN Posted November 24, 2005 Author Share Posted November 24, 2005 far as i can tell its pretty much just you build their set and anything else you try to make will sucks because they have all these specialized pieces now, there are prbobaly more specialized parts meant to be one tihng and one tihng only than there are regular bricks in todays lego sets, especially the star wars one, i know technic still exists and there is still some motorized stuff, lego has a remote controlled r2d2 347108[/snapback] Sorry man, but this can't be further from the truth. There are entire lines of LEGO sets that don't have a single set model to build (the Creator series is just plain awesome for this). And while there is now a huge variety in brick shapes, there are very, very few that just have a single function. Now, if you want super specialized pieces and limited building possibilities, then go for Mega Bloks (although they have some admittedly cool looking stuff). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Valkyrie Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 Interesting. I used to make Macross, Mospeada, TF and other robot legos back in the 80`s but now no more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfx Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 please tell me that garnier ad is fake 347238[/snapback] Unfortunately, its true. Someone here posted a link to the main site before during its launch. Not sure how well it did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal_Massacre_79 Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=153337 Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twoducks Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 (edited) Couldn’t they use more pieces? Recent stuff by Lego looks so simple. This are anime robots Loved my Legos when I was a kid. Best toy ever. Too bad they are running out of ideas (if kids today had more imagination they wouldn’t need these gimmicks to sell the blocks though). Edited November 25, 2005 by Twoducks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfx Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=153337Wow. 347359[/snapback] Pictures are huge and blurry...but that's a nice YF-21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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