>>8360586I wonder if these sets had come out after Naruto came out, how much bigger of a theme it would have been. Personally, I didn't know much about samurai. I just wanted the ninja themselves, and you got so few that I just avoided it. Look at the ratio of ninja to everyone else in most of the sets. Not a lot of bang for your buck when it's supposed to be a ninja theme. Of course, now it's the opposite, with hardly any samurai, but they're still both really cool themes.
>>8360555Chima was great. The amount of factions was very ambitious and the jungle animal theme was fresh. The one weakness the latter waves had was the same mistake Nexo Knights did in the stone electric golem wave. Too much uniform color going on in the sets. Otherwise, good design, good figs, and a lot of variety. You had Lion castles, crocodile battleships, Mammoth AT-AT's, a hummer that launched discs out of its mouth and rotating cannons on the sides, eagle mechs, a wolf battle train tank thing, a gorilla mech with a belt-fed cannon that shot bananas, a fire fortress that transformed, some cool bug stuff, a good assortment of unique buildable weapons for the minifigs to battle each other with, constraction figures to portray their powered up forms (they actually are supposed to be that big when they use their chi and power, so they're not even a separate line, they fit in with the rest of the theme), and even the speedor/minigame stuff was cool if you were into that sort of thing. I saw only the pilot for the show, but yeah, it even had its own show. Very ambitious theme that I think is worth your time.
