I feel like Lego really needs a plain clear/white light-brick, so they can put it behind whatever translucent brick colour they need it to be

@Wyattporter

2 жыл бұрын

Totally. “In Arishem’s shadow” used an orange one behind a pink plate that would have looked so good with a white LED, but the orange just powers through the pink and comes out orange.

@abelnemeth4346

2 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is that they released an rgb duplo brick not too long ago which has multiple colour options and combinations, so it is indeed high time they could update on the system side as well.

As a Bionicle/Hero Factory fan, if Lego decided to come out with a new line based on either of those franchises in this style, I'd be all for it, 100%.

@JekPorkbricks

2 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@cyanimation1605

2 жыл бұрын

I've found so much joy with Zane's Titan Mech, the tiger, and even Mega's large scale Master Chief I almost got into microscale but this is my niche. Everything I loved about Bioni- okay no story. but everything I love about the Bionicle figures, but with a longer, more satisfying build.

My only real complaint with this thing's the arms. They're sat too low down, the shoulder pads put me off and he's only got 4 fingers instead of 5, the lightbrick shouldn't have been included if they're not going to try and get the correct colour. Good attempt, but not quite there. They should have made a balljoint assembly on the top of the bicep for the shoulder pad so that it's not sitting so low down

This shows that Bionicle figures might work well with todays pieces. But 6 Toa would cost 240(!) which kills that idea immediately.

@mintakamothkind

2 жыл бұрын

In order to make it reasonable they'd probably have to scale it down a bit. I believe the drum-lacquered parts on this model probably inflate the price a bit as well, and origina Lego IPs have always had at least somewhat of a price advantage over licensed products, for whatever reason. So I think it would be feasible

@krishacz

2 жыл бұрын

The original Toa Mata were very small and simple, a hypothetical new version could just be small and use mostly mixel joints. This size then could be reserved for titan sets!

This looks much better in the review than the box art suggests. Shame the shoulder joint isn't in the right place. Hopefully someone could make a fix for it.

This definitely feels like a downgrade compared to CCBS IMO due to it being basically the same size, volume and overall purpose as a 20 dollar figure but for double the price. The set itself isn't too bad overall, arm/shoulder situation is a shame but I'm sure there's a reason for it, hopefully Lego will continue to make sets like this one, I've sorely missed buildable action figure sets. Great review as always, Jang!

@PhoenixClank

2 жыл бұрын

Well yes it costs about twice as much, but it also comes with about ten times as much pieces. As an owner of some CCBS action figures myself (early Hero Factory heroes, not the later Star Wars figures) I vividly remember how disappointed I was with the models' hollowness and openness. This style of constraction figure right here is way more dense, looks good even from the back and has almost no awkward gaps (except for those elbow joints). Also if you're like me and don't shelve your Lego models forever, when you take this one apart you get a bunch of normal System bricks that you can use for anything, instead of just a few CCBS bones and shells that you can only ever use for more action figures.

@JJTheDev

2 жыл бұрын

indeed, CCDs does have some advantages, but system gives you more useable pieces. as much as we bionickes and hero factory fans do want more action figures, being able to just use the pieces to build normal stuff is still helpful, especially if for example I want to make this figure a mech suit, with system it's easy, with ccbs I need to convert which adds lost space

@JJTheDev

2 жыл бұрын

I could be biased tho, because the Lego system bionicle sets (with small bionicle figures) were ones I was most interested in for a time. and I'm also an exo force and kingdom knights mega figure collector-ish

@Shnarfbird

2 жыл бұрын

Probably the wider application and use of parts

@cyanimation1605

2 жыл бұрын

Are you serious? That line, especially the Marvel ones, were atrocious. He had nothing on the wrists, a weird half naked shoulder-mounted gun and, listen Bionicle is my life but, you snap those things together in 5 minutes. I miss CCBS but that Iron Man was horrible.

It looks WAY better than on the pictures. Really good legs build!

As a Bionicle fan, this kinda hurts. It's good that Lego is still trying new things, from time to time, but man I miss a pure constraction line :/ My main issue is that I don't want a licensed action figure line, I want an original IP from Lego. Oh, btw, gg to the designer for basically avoiding any weird colour while making a strong and balanced buildable action figure, at least it looks nice and plays nicely too.

@RennovaMOCs

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who grew up with Hero Factory, I feel the same way. It's sad that CCBS is no more, and I hope to see another theme purely themed around the system.

@lPsychoMax

2 жыл бұрын

man if this iron man build was Tahu Mata themed I'd buy it in a heartbeat! I love the original design but the sad truth is, it was back when technic didn't have elbow and knee bending. Sure I could make a custom moc, but to buy a poseable tahu from lego is something special.

Man, I miss the LEGO Star Wars Buildable Figures, I can't get over the fact that they had to cancel it before they could release a Battle Droid Buildable Figure or something, and that leaked image of a 501st Clone Trooper on an AT-RT looked so dope!

Really impressed by everything below the knee

This set truely seems to aim for combining the entire experience LEGO has on designing buildable action figures, and I must say, if they keep it up like this, I'll be buying those sets. I have this guy already and it's really amazing how little it lacks for it to be perfect in what it does, in my opinion at least (Mostly those shoulders).

It’s not bad but looks a bit like a prototype. It’s using techniques and pieces we had in Exo Force 15 years ago.

@cyanimation1605

2 жыл бұрын

It also uses pieces from the 70s. Your point?

Wow, this looks amazing ☺ A definite purchase Great review as always 👍

Another excellent review Jang!

This is exactly what I want and look for with an action figure and especially with Lego action figures. When hero factory was in its brightest days it was my life, and I’ve been wishing for more action figure things. This is expensive, but it’s very good

Mmm, reeeeally not liking this direction, but I see a lot of good here. I feel like a torso ab crunch would be nice, and the shoulders should definitely be fixed. The rotation at the waist feels too low, just like 2016's Toa sets. LEGO still hasn't hooked me into anything new, and it's a darn shame. Not to mention the price is... *so* high. The deluxe quality of all the gold here is really good though, and the light brick does bump up that classic base price for a buildable figure. I feel like scratching 5 dollars would make that feel a lot better but my mother would never spend that much on me as a child in one sitting. 🤣 And I probably wouldn't spend that much as an adult.

I’m surprised how good that was. I seen it at the store but I was hesitant to buy it because of how the last ones were. Looks like I’ll be getting this one if it goes on sale.

I didn't expect thatm..looks good

Really good set!

It's been years since I've watched another of your videos and little did I know you had to make a brand-new channel! But I can say, after years, you still got it. You still have the whole reviewing things I loved years back. I hope this channel continues to grow!

Your video has changed my mind, I'm buying one.

me every time lego makes action figures system: "BIONICLE REBOOT CONFIRMED????"

Kind of torn on this approach. While the System approach can lead to less skeletal and gap-y builds, as mentioned, it also loses the Technic aspect of traditional constraction. I can live with that, but the build density is also leading to constraction becoming more expensive, which was notably a problem during Bionicle G2. I'm curious to see where this goes. Still, I'm glad they finally figured out that System-built humanoids can have knees. The lack of posing options for recent System mechs has been a serious problem, and it's frustrating that instead of making stronger joints they often decide to not have joints at all.

@mechafizz

2 жыл бұрын

What's really interesting to me is that this Iron Man figure seems to be very conscientiously designed in regards to what types of joints are used where. Shoulders, hips, and ankles are ball joints, knees are ratchet joints, wrists, neck, and waist are mixel/small ball joints. I can't recall another set that's employed more than two joint types at once. Just from my experience as a Bionicle/CCBS/constraction builder, ball joints are pretty sturdy and secure. G2 Bionicle utilized them to great effect in some of the larger figures' gearbox designs to add enough friction to prevent the wacky-wild-floppy-flailing-arm syndrome that G1 bionicle figures tended to suffer from. However, for whatever reason ball jointed knees tend to be weak point once you've surpassed a certain size/weight in a humanoid build. Larger constraction sets often employed back-of-knee-to-ankle pistons to increase knee strength and a few even used multiple parallel ball joints per knee. If I had to guess, I'd suppose that using specifically ratchet joints for the knees specifically is what affords this Iron Man such stability in its posing. Which poses (pun intended) a rather odd revelation if true---LEGO had strong enough joints the whole time (ratchet joints), they just either a) hadn't realized out how to properly utilize them to the fullest until now, or b) the actual issue was never with the joints themselves, but a challenge in securing the rest of the limb around the joint elements (after all, it doesn't matter how strong your knee joints are if your leg breaks above them).

Very cool looking set, I hope if this does well they will make more suits, I particularly would love a mark one set. as with all previous large figure systems (technic based, Knights kingdom, Bionicle 06-09, CCBS) it will work well for characters that do not show human faces like iron man or boba fett or General Grevious. But if they try with anything such as Thor or Captain America they will fail completely.

I had not noticed the weird ribcage shoulder joints and now I can't unsee it 🤣

Awesome video Jang this is a set I really want to pick up I'm a huge fan of iron man I hope they do more of these like they did with the star wars sets

Knight's Kingdom 2; electric boogaloo

Jang, I would love to see you sit down with builds like this one and fix the part you don't like. Thanks for the always great content!

You know I will be buying that set soon

This reminds me of Bionicles. Some one gave me one of those years ago. Still haven´t opened the box yet. But it is kind of cool so I have no plans to sell it.

This does look pretty good. Though i do still miss and almost prefer the CCBS style of building. Something about that has always stuck to me and always will. It was really just another way to build up action figures and even combine Techinc, Lego system, and the CCBS system all into one. I definitely will still get this Iron Man at some point

Also, despite not being a Hulkbuster or anything, despite not representing a larger mech... I think it should have had an Iron Man minifig and a chest compartment/cockpit. If it would have been easy to integrate into the build.

Characters are difficult to build in Lego. Especially at this scale. The arms are a little weird but overall this is cool. System, technic and a smattering of CCBS parts are the way lots of character mocs are made so I can see that as the way forward for these figures. I’m going to get it 👍 Nice review!

Its nice they are planning to do buildable figures but, this might be biased, I missed the CCBS back then. You weren’t as limited in articulation and it seems more natural than what they did here. I get that the shoulders are supposed to be there as a illusion but it doesn’t work out well

This review made me go from "definitely not buying" to "I might pick this up on the right sale". As far as price, I agree. Something in the $35 range would be much more tempting.

Glad you like it! I think people are being too hard on this set. I get that their are some issues, but it's not supposed to be at the level of an 18+ set. For what it is I think it's a great buildable action figure for kids! I really hope that all of the negative reviews won't bring down the sales, because I really want to see more of this new style of figure.

I dont think the box art does the face disjustice (it kinda does tho), but I think the face piece just doesnt look good head-on, it seems very flat from only that angle. The lightbrick is sad, but the biggest problem is the shoulders just being too low, and I dont think it works if you have the arms in any other pose than straight down. Better than I thought

When you brought up the skinny neck piece all I could think about was when I encountered that piece building the Lego D-Va and Reinhardt set from Overwatch; if I'm being honest I'm more worried about the longevity of such a thin post being an integral connection point.

This concept would work well IF there are special molds.

Definitely good "for a first effort". I am thinking the shoulders could be fixed with the smaller ccbs armor most recently used for a couple mech faces. It even came in dark red before.

i think this is just a good first step. I really like the brick built aspect of it but there are still some issues like the arms being too low and wish it had more articulation but i think this is still pretty good. I would love for another bionicle/hero factory style line with this style.

It looks a bit better that I initially thought and it seems to work surprisingly well as an action figure. Make the arms actually connected to the shoulders and the torso able to bend ever so slightly and they’re good. I’m not paying $40 bucks for it but with a discount I could buy it just to encourage them to do more.

I'm not even a Marvel fan but I might need this

7:00 Riverdance action

I really like this as an action figure design style. Not really interested in Iron Man, but there are some other characters that I would be tempted by in this neat style

This makes me wonder if Hero Factory, Bionicle, Star Wars Buildable Figures, etc. would still be on the market today had this been the system. Lego Mechs seem to always sell, but the CCBS stuff never seemed to do well. Had those figures been more proper lego builds, perhaps they'd have done better.

Epic

that light brick feature was awkward, seeing a little bit of yellow is just weird

The yellow light brick could be used as the arc reactor repulsor

Ccbs was the best. I miss that system

I miss the old style of constraction, but this style isn't too bad and has potential, its just going to be expensive compared to the old stuff. The model itself is brought down by the low shoulders that don't look too good

the head looks like a Toa Inika head with the skinny neck

Lego knows that there's a market for buildable action figures, but clearly they think that the CCBS system isn't profitable enough, and the old 'system' from Bionicle (there was never really one consistent system though, they kept changing it) faded out too. So going almost entirely system was the clear next step, and for a first attempt, I think this set has done a great job. Yeah, it has its issues, but every first attempt is bound to have issues (Bionicle had tons of issues when it first started, and it was still a huge hit), but I absolutely think Lego is capable of refining this system and doing a great job with it. (Note, I also loved the first generation of Bionicle, and still do. Seeing issues with it doesn't contradict that)

I bought one for my Grandson. At first he just wanted an Iron Man figure so I was looking for any thing and just happen to hit the After Christmas sale. After no luck due to every thing bought out. Luck hit me though as the Lego Store had a sale if you bought 2 figures and just looking at the box impressed me. I'm not a major collector but I have some rare items and I had to buy 2 of these. One for me and One he can tear up LOL. I have to admit it was more impressive when I built mine I think its the best I have bought yet from Lego And being a droid suit it looks more realistic than a human figure. And of coarse I had to watch the Original Iron Man as I was building it to get that killer Guitar riff along with it. Nothing but fun. And yes fair price I don't feel Ripped Off at all. now time for the collection shelf. LOL

Also those pauldrons work more like real pauldrons should. They're pointed to the cuirass and your arm moves under it.

Be cool to see it fit inside that Hulkbuster set

@Lordodragonss

2 жыл бұрын

No way xD

Nice review I will buy it when it gets marked down, based on your review. Did you review the Boba Fett? Interesting comparison.

Maybe popularity will lead to TLG to finally create some new joint pieces like they did with Mixels and Hero Factory? We have little joints and big joints, but nothing in between. Plus they have almost always been in black or light/dark bluish gray. If TLG created a range of joints, in different colours, it would enable SO many possibilities, and lessen the need for hiding exposed skeletons (as they could be the same colour as the outer pieces).

LEGO could (and should) use the majority of this build to do a minifig-scale set of the Destroyer armor from the first Thor movie.

Honestly much better than I thought. The articulation works? Posability is possible? It also doesn't look that bad. However I think it should be at about 30 bucks all things considered. (Also interested in that garagantos set on the background)

I wonder when Lego will find a way to fit four fingers and a thumb on a hand without it being made too wide

They should have made this one of the Iron Legion drones from Age of Ultron as the skinnier bits would have made more sense canonically.

I just found it on sale on Amazon for $31.99. I bought two one for display and one for parts

hey, cam you do the review of the lego city picnic park next

it’s the placement of the arms and shape of the head that kill the design for me, i have no doubt it’s a solid build otherwise but those aspects in particular drag it down too much for me.

@Lordodragonss

2 жыл бұрын

Arms seemt easy to mod at least.

Great review as always. Just saying for a little comparison but this set reatails a little more then your typical bioncie titan Set, but has its own merits as well.

I’m really glad to see they made a set like this because it brings me a somewhat vague hope of the return of bionicle….however solely looking on the reformable of this set it’s just disastrous-the shoulder feels like a random moc instead of an officially released product, and the elbow is terrible as well.

@ziyangliu6392

2 жыл бұрын

Probably I won’t be so upset about the elbow and shoulder if this’s a random robot from somewhere. But this’s the iron man, and the iron man is a human in a suit, so it’s unacceptable to see a human having such a weird shoulder and elbow. Exaggeratedly I would say even a minifig has better portion and looks better than this stuff.

Seems like I might be of unpopular opinion here but this is one of those models where the longer I look, the weirder it gets. The wide shape of the head hits first, then I notice how flat the torso is, the shoulders are hovering separately over the arms, the arms are mounted too low, the hip joints are oddly exposed, legs are very square, theres way too many different representations of gold, and to top it all off the light brick doesn't glow with the right colour.

Bring back Bionicle and build them like this. I'd be all over it. Honestly I like it even more than Technic, it's a lot more customizable.

For me part of the appeal of the Bionicle/Hero Factory/Early CCBS Star Wars/Marvel stuff was that most of them where $20 or less. This may be an okay value for $40, but I have no interest in spending $40 on a buildable action figure.

$32 at Walmart, I just got one. Gonna use parts on a moc. Golden angel mech for iron man. Like the iron monger and hulk buster but gold. Already have it done but want the head and legs to keep modifying it like Stark would. Nothing is ever finished...

We need bionicle back this makes me happy because of the things we could get

It's no bonk, that's for sure.

Coming from a dude who collects a fair amount of Action Figures, $40 isn't that bad if the quality is there. You can get more for less, but less for more is pretty common...

I don't really understand why lego doesn't use those ratcheted joints for knees more often. It seems like if the mech is relatively lightweight, those should be strong enough to hold it up?

Loved CCBS when they released the Star wars figures, love this style even more. both cases have a really weak head\helmet sadly

Honestly I hated the look of this set when it was first revealed, but I can honestly say it's growing on me. Definitely not something I'll buy at full price, but if I see it at 20% off or better it seems fairly compelling, and as someone who still likes CCBS, I'm glad that they've created the next iteration of large action figure.

Thanks for the review, Jang. This set looks so unpleasant IMHO. Wish they would just return to Bionicles.

The more I look at this set the more I think it would be great for moc hulk buster parts.

I found this on clearance already at Walmart for $30, so I got a second one.

The previos system is much better than the new one to me

I'd rather it not have the light brick and it be 35 dollars if I'm gonna be honest, and while I do miss the CCBS, this does have some meanignful edges and could be used for bringing something like hero force back (hopefully). All in all, not overpriced when you consider the disney tax, but it was really nice how affordable hero factory stuff was for their size and quality, especially if you were willing to do some more stuff with custom acessories

I still like ccbs though :( Still have the old ccbs iron man sitting on my shelf

Not terribly crazy about the large figures like this. In my humble opinion, the Boba Fett is VERY well done, and the best in the line. This Iron Man figure looks wonky to me, the two biggest things being the arms and the head. The arms just don't look right, and out of position. The worst thing is the helmet, it just looks cheesy, incomplete and shaped badly. If the helmet was actually brick-built, I would give it a little more slack, but given that it is 100% a molded part, I think they could have done better. Thanks for sharing!!!

There's a few things to like here but also a few things that are very bad. The arms are great, but them sticking out from so low on the torso looks very ugly. The legs also look very good and are by far my favourite part of the build. The lacquered gold is stunning and works super well for this set. However, the torso and head is where my criticisms are. The torso looks very blocky to me and just not very good. The light brick feature is cool in concept but the light not being blue means it might as well not have been included. Its shapes also feel off. The head is just horrendous in my opinion. Using that piece for the front of the head just does not work. It's too wide from the front. The rest of the head being so blocky does not look good either. In conclusion it's an okay set but it could have been a lot better in my opinion. It really doesn't look a whole lot like the Mark 43. I feel if the torso and head were better this could have been a great set.

While I am sad to see CCBS seemingly abandoned for good, I can't be so without guilt for being critical and dismisive of it at the time due to nostalgia and ignorance and thus not supporting it when I had the chance. It is pleasing to me to see that in their attempt to return to buildable figures instead using normal system, they've put in a lot of effort to make it look good and remain sturdy and playable. And as for the price, honestly it looks to be bigger than a similarly priced Transformer so by my metric that feels about right given the complexity, design and part quality.

As a minifig centric collector, this set never had appeal to me. Still don't intend to buy the set but after watching this I can appreciate the work Lego put into poseability. Not a bad looking model, though!

Only 90 degrees at the knees? I'm so spoiled by Bandai... I'm used to crazy leaping/flying poses with one leg folded and the other trailing behind... And my Gundams always oblige me for that.

Now give me this figure in Sentinel colors 😏

I preferred all the older generations of action figures.

I feel like this new system based CCBS line would work better with a certain theme oh what is it called "BIONICLE" or "HERO FACTORY" this is perfect/prime material for a revamp/revival for those two themes as these liscensced figures all they way back to the original marvel, ben 10, and star wars buildable figures (outside chewbacca and grevious) don't work. Bionicle and Hero factory where the only two that took full advanatge of the CCBS system, i hope LEGO considers bringing the themes back i like the figure as it's a good attempt but the scaling/shaping is kinda off and the price of £35 to me isn't worth it i'd rather £25-22.

Feels more like a mech than a buildable figure. Basically like Exo Force or those Ninjago mech. I think it's unfair to compare it to CCBS or Constraction. That being said I do love it! But think it would work better for mech designs than people. Let's hope that Disney doesn't force Lego to run it into the ground with poor sales of figures no one wants, just as they did to CCBS/Constraction, and that Lego creates more robot-like figures from this "new" system.

I'm still not convinced. I feel the shoulders but especially the neck needs improvement. Something like a couple stacked red toiletseat pieces for instance

As a Bionicle fan I don't really see the appeal of this figure. The proportions are wonky and the price compared to CCBS is horrendous, unless you want to go for the parts as MOCcing material. The parts are cool I guess, but as an action figure/display model, it looks almost worse than the 2012 CCBS counterpart. How do they compare in size?

I would love to see an original Lego theme IP in this sense * erhm * * Bionicle * ehrm *. I prefer CCBS...but if this is all we're gonna get at this stage...I'll take it. Just want new constraction content so much. I haven't bought a newly released lego set in such a long time. Nothing Lego makes these days interests me like how Bionicle and Hero Factory did. Please Lego...just do something for the constraction fan base.

This seems great. But that head just kills it for me. It's far too wide at the top which just makes it look off.

Considering the currently recent firing of Greg I'm convinced lego higher ups are genuinely scared of and or actually really do hate non brick builds

Just make some changes, and then you can make a mech that has knees.

Gotta be honest, I'm not a fan of how this looks. The proportions are extremely odd, the elbows look like they're snapping off when rotated forward, and generally it doesn't look anywhere near as poseable as CCBS figures. I would prefer to see them experiment and expand on the action figure building system they already have instead of abandoning it.

og action character vuilding systems were just way better at articulation, system pieces are just so limited on their range